No rain was going to stop Ryan Zimmerman. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Nationals 14, Colorado 6 (F/8): Well, it rained. Then it rained some more. And then the Nationals put up a seven spot in the top of the eighth. Then it rained, again. Finally, the men in blue put an end to an oft-delayed, waterlogged game, one the Nats won against Colorado at Coors Field. Ryan Zimmerman wouldn’t let the weather distract him; the Nationals’ patrolman on the hot corner crushed two longballs off Rockies starter Jhoulys Chacin and batted in six runs in total, all before Washington blew the game open with nine hits in the eighth. It was good timing too — after the Rockies went down 1-2-3 in the bottom half of the inning, the umps understandably ruled the field unplayable. (It sure looked a mess out there on the television broadcast, with standing water everywhere and temps hovering in the mid-30s.) With both teams getting the same number of outs, the game could be ended — but, of course, not until we waited for thirty minutes thanks to baseball’s draconian policy on calling games in progress, which mercifully happened at 1:12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. But what’s an extra half-hour or so to get to 20 wins? After all, Washington didn’t win their 20th game in 2009 until June 19, in their 66th game of the season.