Entering today, the Nationals were in a pretty bad offensive slump. How bad, you ask? Try two shutouts in three games and three runs in the other, good for an 0-3 record. They had one home run in their last four games. Another metric:
nats today:
11 runs in 4 innings
nats previous:
11 runs in 36 innings— nats squid (@NatsSquid) June 30, 2018Eventually, though, the team had to break out; there are too many good bats in the lineup for the Nationals to remain scoreless for long.
On Friday night, it finally happened, to the tune of seven homers in nine innings.