After Saturday night’s 12-6 loss to San Francisco, the fifth straight defeat for the Nationals overall and their third straight to the Giants, it’s hard to imagine that just over a month ago the Nats swept this very same team in a July 4th series in Washington.
But here we are six weeks later with two teams on very different trajectories. The Nationals have allowed 23 runs in three games so far this series at AT&T Park and on Sunday they will be in danger of a four-game sweep.
And not only did they lose on Saturday, the Nats saw Bryce Harper leave in the seventh inning with a left leg injury and Steve McCatty get tossed in a rare ejection of a pitching coach.