With back-to-back losses heading into tonight’s game, and seven losses in the last 10, which have them eight games under .500 and 8.5 games out in the NL East, what gives the players for the Washington Nationals hope that they can turn this thing around. If you say, “2019.” I’d probably grant you that, but there was a reason that run was so spectacular, and it’s the fact that they defied the odds. Not easy to repeat that sort of thing.
But what does give the Nats hope?
“We’ve been talking as a group, we’ve been talking as a team,” Starlin Castro said after the loss in Sunday’s series finale with the Phillies.