Before Wednesday night’s loss left them eleven games under .500, 9.0 games out of first in the NL East, with losses in four straight, seven of 10 overall and 14 of 21 in the month of May, the Washington Nationals held a team meeting in Flushing, Queens, NY’s Citi Field.
The message of the meeting?
“I think the biggest thing is continuing to have each other’s backs,” Nationals’ closer Sean Doolittle explained, “... and what happens so often times when a season starts going this direction is, you know, different factions of the team, people start pointing fingers, and it’s more important — that’s not happening — and that’s what the meeting was about, is continue grinding it out and being there for the guy next you.