Nationals get a season's worth of free Hershey's syrup

The Washington Nationals may only be a month and a half into the season but they are already enjoying the spoils of victory.

The Washington Nationals may only be a month and a half into the season but they are already enjoying the spoils of victory.

The team has developed a postgame celebration that is bizarre even by baseball standards, in which players are attacked with a bottle of Hershey's chocolate syrup.

Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer explained that the syrup is the perfect thing to celebrate a hard fought victory to ESPN.

"It's just something to top off a good win," Scherzer said. "Chocolate sauce is the perfect topping for ice cream, so might as well top off a game and give that person in the on-the-field camera interview a little something to taste."

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ESPN reports the chocolatier took note of the celebration and decided to make sure the team was not for want of the cacao-packed liquid again, shipping it a total of 132 bottles, more than enough to cover the 121 remaining regular season games as well as a run through the postseason.

Mail's here! #SweetVictory pic.twitter.com/P9vJ1cUgXD

— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) May 21, 2015

The Pennsylvania-based chocolate company may get some local blowback, however, for helping the Phillies rivals celebrate victories.

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