Well, back-to-back sweeps is not how you stay in the playoff hunt, but the schedule unrelentingly pushes on. After an 0-for-6 go at the Braves and Red Sox, the Bombers will take on the Nationals as they continue their homestand. Both squads find themselves in the basement of this sport’s Eastern divisions, and shockingly (to someone time-traveling from March), the Nats are only 3.5 games worse than the Yankees headed into this series in the Bronx.
New York will get two of their top arms in the rotation, and so will Washington, in what will likely be a competitive matchup — or at the very least, one with plenty of intrigue since top prospects Everson Pereira and Oswald Peraza will be up.