The Nationals’ 2019 season is a plane nose-diving into a nuclear power plant. It’s a flaming cruise ship hitting an iceberg in the middle of a hurricane. It’s a man jumping out of a plane only to realize that he forgot a parachute who’s then hit by lightning. It’s a sixth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
And on Thursday afternoon, it reached its low point, as Washington lost its fifth straight game and blew its third straight eighth-inning lead to the Mets, who finished a four-game sweep despite being terminally, violently Mets. The Nationals now have as many losses (31) as the bottom-feeding Marlins to go with the fourth-worst record in baseball.