To this point, the 2019 Washington Nationals’ season has been an anomaly. Washington came into the season as heavy favorites in the National League East, but 69 games into the year the Nationals sit 8.5 games back of the division-leading Atlanta Braves.
Recently, Washington has been playing much better baseball and are starting to look like the team we all expected them to be this season. Winners of 13 out of their last 19 the Nationals seem to have flipped the script, but the question remains was it too little too late?
Washington is in the midst of the biggest homestand of their season as they have seven games with the division-rival Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves.