The Nationals know they have a long way to go before they can climb out of their current hole in the NL East standings. That said, the feeling among players after Sunday afternoon’s series-clinching win over the Milwaukee Brewers was the hope that their biggest bugaboo in recent weeks — the struggling offense — might finally start to to turn things around.
You can put Wilson Ramos at the top of that list. His mammoth fifth-inning home run to right-center (measured at an estimated 436 feet) was just his third extra-base hit in the month of August and was his first long ball since July 21.