Going Deep with The Nats

The Washington Nationals are now mired in a 5-game losing streak. Defensive mistakes have been costly, and of course the umpiring was a factor in yesterday’s disappointing loss.

The Washington Nationals are back home for a long homestand, and the team has to snap this losing streak. They will call on Jake Irvin to be their stopper. By the way, today is an AppleTV+ game as the only televised option.

What is kind of incredible for the entire month of August is that the Nats charter jet will only be used for the weekend of August 23rd, and the rest of the month, the team has two bus trip series within 140 miles of Nationals Park. The rest of the games are home games. There are 18 home games, and just nine road games, of which the Nats can commute to-and-from for two of those nine games in Baltimore. The split so far has been only 50 home games and 59 road games.

The Washington Nationals got past the trade deadline and went on to get blown-out in Arizona by a final score of 17-0. Yes, that looks like a football score. After the shocking loss in the first game of this series, the Nats will try to win this one to leave Arizona with a salvage win before the team flies back to Washington, D.C. ahead of a day-off on Thursday.

The Washington Nationals lost another 1-run game (10-15 on the season), and this one really stung as Kyle Finnegan had a 4-run lead in the 9th inning and fell apart to give up 5-runs and a walk-off. Well, Finnegan was not traded at the deadline — but Dylan Floro was — and he moved to the other bullpen as it was the Arizona Diamondbacks that traded for him. Corner infielder, Andres Chaparro, was the player the Nats got back in return.

The Washington Nationals lost another 1-run game (10-14 on the season), and that is how the series ended in St. Louis. For the next 3-days, the Nats are in Arizona to face the reigning NL Champs.