Don’t look now, but the Washington Nationals are only two games out of first place in the National League East and are also two games above .500 for the first time since 2019.
Thanks to four wins on the spin, including a two-game sweep over the Tampa Bay Rays in their most recent series, the Nationals are looking increasingly like a team that can actually contend for a postseason berth. Who’d have thought that at the start of June?
Next up is a four-game weekend series against the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.