In his last five games before last night’s series opener with the Los Angeles Dodgers in D.C., Lane Thomas was 5 for 17 (.294 AVG), with two doubles, a triple, a home run, and two runs scored, and on the year, he’d, “... hit safely in 18 of 27 starts ... and reached base safely in 23 of the 27,” as the Washington Nationals highlighted in their pregame notes for the matchup.
Thomas, 26, went into the game against LA’s lefty Tyler Anderson with a .381/.500/.603 line in 78 plate appearances against southpaws this season (versus a .