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PHOTO: Washington Post celebrates heady D.C. sports night

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D.C. fans will be hard-pressed to remember a night in local professional sports as thrilling and successful as Tuesday.

The Washington Wizards silenced a rowdy Toronto crowd with a 117-106 Game 2 rout of the Raptors to take a 2-0 series lead, Nicklas Backstrom scored an overtime winner to help the Capitals even their first-round series with the New York Islanders and, over at Nationals Park, Yunel Escobar hit a walk-off home run to beat the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Washington Post encapsulated the three victories with an all-encompassing front page of its Sports section:

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