For several weeks the Washington Nationals have been playing like a losing baseball team—with neither the attitude nor the performance necessary to keep a division lead or recover it once they lost it.
Now, their record finally matches their playing level on the field as the team fell below .500 after losing to the Giants Sunday afternoon in San Francisco. It was the sixth loss in a row for the Nationals, and undoubtedly a low point in their rapidly-deteriorating 2015 season.
The Nationals entered today’s game with the hopes of salvaging a win against the Giants, their longtime tormenters who had pounded them throughout the four-game series.