With a loss in the rain-soaked series finale with the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday, manager Davey Martinez’s Washington Nationals finished the final homestand of 2022 at 26-55 in the nation’s capital this year.
The club which finished the home schedule yesterday was significantly different than the team which started the season, with the organization in the second year of the reboot they kicked off in July of 2021, with another trade deadline drastically altering the face of the franchise (so long, Juan Soto), and their fifth-year skipper said after the 8-1 loss to their NL East rivals, the current team’s a hard working young club which has given him everything they have and learned a lot, while also losing the most games (104 so far) by any team since baseball returned to D.