The Nationals lost a close ballgame Friday night, giving up the winning run in the seventh inning.
Really, who could have seen that coming?
It’s a broken record now, but one the Nationals can’t shut off. They just keep going around and around in circles, making the same mistakes, losing in the same fashion every single night, their slim postseason hopes becoming slimmer every time.
Yes, their odds of making the playoffs, which actually were 25 percent at the start of the week, are now down to 1.4 percent following Friday night’s games (per Fangraphs). That’s because four consecutive losses — combined with five consecutive wins by the Mets — have turned a 4-game deficit in the NL East into an 8 1/2-game deficit.