For a struggling offensive team like the Nationals, there’s no greater place to play a few games than the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. And lately for the Nats, there’s no greater foil than whiny Wayne Krivsky’s Reds.

For those reasons, I had quite the time watching the Nats pound the stuffing out of the Reds in last night’s 12-7 win. The club’s long-slumbering lumber has finally awoken–aided by Cincy’s teensy bandbox of a field. In the first three games of the series, the Nats have pounded out seven homers, an astonishing 26% of their entire season’s meager total of 27. Their 27 runs scored in the same three games represents 16% of their year’s total.

One of several things seems to be happening here:

Possibility #1: Great American is a funhouse mirror, distorting a still moribund lineup.

Possibility #2: Lenny Harris, the new batting coach, is performing his greatest pinch hitting stint yet, and is some sort of mechanics-adjusting god. All Hail Lenny Harris!

Possibility #3: The Nats offensive tiger has arisen. Look out, National League…

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