It had to end sooner or later. You didn’t really think the Diamondbacks were going to go the entire season without losing a single series, after all.
As it was, it took them a month and a half before they assured themselves of dropping their first one.
The Washington Nationals took care of that on Saturday afternoon with a 2-1 victory in front of 29,428 at Chase Field. It marked Washington’s third straight win over Arizona in the four-game series, which concludes Sunday night with a national broadcast on ESPN.
The Diamondbacks began the year by becoming the first National League team since the 1907 Chicago Cubs to win their first nine series of a season.