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WASHINGTON -- -- Max Scherzer was asked last year about impending free agent pitchers that his team could sign during the annual Washington Nationals WinterFest event.It is all about winning, Scherzer said. When you get to the park and you come into the clubhouse, your only thought is about winning and what it takes to do that. There are times, off the field, you are making decisions ... that has to subside when you walk through the clubhouse.Scherzer has been all about winning since he signed a seven-year contract with the Nationals prior to the 2015 season.The right-hander from St. Louis will have a chance to elevate Washington to new heights on Thursday night when he takes the mound at home in the fifth and deciding game of the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.This will probably be the biggest start of my career, Scherzer told reporters in Los Angeles. Ive said that a few times in my life, but I think this will be it. Youre going to get the absolute best out of everybody on both teams.The Nationals have a chance to win their first postseason series Thursday.Washington lost Game 5 at home to the St. Louis Cardinals of the NLDS in 2012 and fell in four games to the San Francisco Giants in the NLDS two years later.The last time a baseball team in Washington won a postseason series was when the Senators beat the New York Giants in Game 7 of the 1924 World Series in the nations capital.Scherzer was the starter and loser in Game 1 on Friday at Nationals Park. He gave up four runs in six innings with five strikeouts as the Dodgers won 4-3 in a game started by Clayton Kershaw.The Washington ace allowed a solo homer in the first inning to Corey Seager and a two-run shot to Justin Turner in the third. Scherzer allowed 31 homers during regular-season play, and several times it was unlikely players who went deep.Scherzer is 4-4 with a 3.93 ERA in 13 postseason games, with 11 starts. He has 85 strikeouts in 65 2/3 innings in his playoff career.Rich Hill, who will get the nod for the Dodgers, lost in Game 2 on Sunday at Nationals Park after his start was rained out Saturday. Hill pitched in 25 games out of the bullpen in 2015 with Triple-A Syracuse, the top farm club of the Nationals.The lefty surrendered a three-run homer to Jose Lobaton in the fourth inning of Game 2 that gave Washington a 3-2 lead. Hill allowed six hits and four runs in 4 1/3 innings and was tagged with the loss.The Nationals could also see rookie right-hander Julio Urias, who has not pitched in the series.Hill took the blame for the Game 2 loss.I believe were tied in this series because I didnt execute, he said after Game 2. Im really disappointed. I thought that game was going to play well for me personally to put us in a good position to win and I didnt execute. Its all solely on me.Acquired in a trade with the Oakland As in August, Hill is now 0-2 with an 8.59 ERA in two postseason starts. His other playoff start came when he played for the Chicago Cubs in 2007 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, when he went just three innings. That was one year after he pitched for manager Dusty Baker with the Cubs in 2006.The Dodgers forced a Game 5 with a 6-5 win at home on Tuesday in Game 4. Kershaw started on short rest and did not figure in the decision. He was lifted with two outs in the seventh.I felt really good about it until the last four minutes, Kershaw told reporters. Its a weird feeling. But youve just got to swallow your pride a little bit and realize we won the game and be excited about it and get ready to go back to D.C.Said Baker about Game 5: I know Kershaw aint pitchin. Thank God.Scherzer won his 20th game of the season in the regular-season finale at home against the Miami Marlins on Oct. 2 in a playoff tuneup.On Thursday he will try to send the Nationals to their first postseason series win.Going to be a heck of a ballgame, Scherzer said. Those are two great teams. 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Argentina Olympic team coach Julio Olarticoechea said that neither he nor his coaching staff have received their salary from the Argentina Football Federation (AFA).Argentina crashed out of the Olympic football tournament at the group stage on Wednesday after a 1-1 draw with Honduras?amid institutional problems in AFA that forced FIFA to intervene back in June.The Albiceleste, who had been in danger of missing the Rio tournament just weeks before the opening ceremony due to AFAs current chaos, failed to reach the second stage of the competition for the first time since 1964.Olarticoechea, who stepped up to take the job just weeks before the Olympics after national team coach Gerardo Martinos abrupt resignation, reportedly over similar salary issues, told Argentinas media that AFA has hit rock bottom.?He said that he was borrowing money from his daughter to make ends meet this summer. His contract runs through March.Yesterday my wife called me to tell me that we are borrowing money from my daughter [Johana], who is a baker and earns a good salary, he told La Nacion. She told me to speak to the AFA leaders and tell them that we need to be paid. I am taking money from my daughter. That is enough to make you cry, but that is the reality.It is as though they [AFA] are saying they dont value you, as if you just arrived at AFA by coincidence, he said.?The federation, led by Julio Grondona since 1979, has been in turmoil since the late FIFA senior vice president died in 2014.In June, FIFA stepped in and named a committee to run the federations daily affairs with a mandate that elections must be held by July 2017.I hear the criticism from the people who say that we are dooing this for the money, but they are wrong, Olarticoechea told Radio Continental.dddddddddddd When you get to this level, it is no longer about money. It is about representing Argentina. And when you lose, you are totally destroyed. I know how each player feels.He blasted AFA for not paying his coaching staff.I dont make much and I dont complain about the poor salary, he said. Caldero [Pablo Calderon], my assistant, he does a million things and he earns just 18,000 pesos ($1200) monthly and he hasnt been paid in three months. He did everything, he organised everything for the players, he was a huge help.Argentinas senior team, coached by Edgardo Bauza, are currently preparing for September World Cup 2018 qualifiers against Uruguay and Venezuela without their star, Lionel Messi, who abruptly quit following the teams loss to Chile in the Copa America Centenario final.Bauza was in Barcelona on Thursday to try to persuade Messi to return. Friday is the FIFA deadline for squad names for the September matches.Messi also made reference to federation problems a few days before the Copa final, saying that AFA was a disaster after the team had suffered delayed flights and had experienced problems finding opponents for training games -- traditionally Argentina take a group of juniors to tournaments to serve as sparring partners for the senior side.?Maradona claimed that the current chaos within the Argentina federation was institutional and that Barcelona star Lionel Messi was right to call out the federation during the Copa America Centenario. ' ' '