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The Giants need to play the Nationals more often.

The boys complete the four game sweep against a pitiful Nats team that's missing virtually every one of their decent players (Zimmerman, Johnson, Perez, Cordero).

The Giants are on a nice little run, having won 12 of 18 after their first four-game winning streak of the season. They're now just 5 games back of first-place Arizona in the NL Worst.

Plenty of credit to go around in yesterday's W, including a gutsy Matt Cain, an "I still don't get where this guy came from" performance from Keiichi Yabu, and the continued excellent hitting of Randy Winn.

But let me be the first to point out that Brian Wilson, our once maligned young closer, has put together a string of outings that are impressive by any measure. Really!

In recording his first four out save of the season, a tough task especially in the sweltering DC haze, Wilson extends his absolute run of dominance.

Dating back to his 15th save in Arizona on May 27, Wilson has not allowed a hit to the last 19 batters faced (and only one runner total via a walk).

As he has much of the year, he leads the NL in saves with 18, but, more importantly, the guy is starting to develop the dominance, that certain je ne sais quoi, necessary of a big-time stopper. He always had the look, the mentality, and the fastball, but we may be witnessing the birth of the closer we've sorely missed since Robb Nen, bless his heart, pitched til his arm fell off in the year that shall not be named.

Or maybe it's just a good run against a series of bad teams.

Either way, he looked very closerly (what - that's totally a word) in getting the last four outs of the Giants best series of the season.

Post or Die: Now that we may have a badass closer, what's the nickname? "Smile" or any derivation may be DQ'd for lameness.

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