Just a few hours before Jayson Werth's game-winning home run that extended the season of the Washington Nationals, a player not even on the postseason roster delivered an inspirational speech.

Mark DeRosa grabbed the microphone of his clubhouse karaoke machine and quoted from Roosevelt's rousing 1910 ''Man in the Arena'' speech.

"Our backs were against the wall. I wanted to say something that brought us together, a band of brothers who go out fighting and see what happens," DeRosa explained.

It worked wonders.

"Epic," was closer Drew Storen's description. "It's the stuff movies are made of."