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The Washington Nationals are mired in a five-game losing skid and hope to find the same magic they found last year on April 21 in L’Étoile du Nord against the original Washington Senators, now known as the Twins. A month ago from today, the Nats were celebrating a walk-off against the Astros and a march towards the .500 mark. The starting pitching isn’t the problem here. Every starter on the mound for manager Davey Martinez did enough to be the stopper in the last time through the rotation, and it was some combination of either the defense, baserunning, the bullpen, or the offense that could not get it done to push a game into the W column.
The Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act was enacted in 1975 to give consumers additional rights against warranty claims. Decades later, consumers were enacting their rights in states with strict “Lemon laws” to return defective vehicles that could not be repaired. We just wrote about Quality is Job 1 in a story about limiting mistakes and errors at Ford Motor Company — and how that related to baseball. The Washington Nationals, as we wrote, are not good enough to overcome most gaffes. They win when they don’t make mistakes.
The Nationals were a pitch away from a win with two outs in the ninth inning on Saturday, and yesterday, maybe a foul ball catch away from winning the series against the Phillies over the weekend. Instead, the Nats were swept in Philadelphia. The Nats were actually winning yesterday in the 5th inning by a score of 3-2. They lost 11-5. The lead was lost after two consecutive walks were issued then a single, and with two outs, Kody Clemens, hit a foul ball that could not be caught by Jesse Winker and the floodgates opened.
That Clemens kid, Roger’s son, was a thorn in the Nats’ side on Saturday and Sunday. Certainly if he flies out in the 9th inning on Saturday against closer Kyle Finnegan, the Nats win. If he fouls out to Winker in that 5th inning on Sunday, maybe the Nats win that game. The blunders were walking two consecutive batters. Some thought the foul ball should have been caught. This team wins when they don’t make any critical mistakes. A pick-off of Nick Senzel in the 2nd inning on Sunday was a carbon copy of the previous Sunday when he did the same thing. You aren’t stealing second base, so why are you taking a 14-foot lead?
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The Washington Nationals are mired in a four-game losing skid after a soul-crushing blown save that happened last night. With two-outs in the 9th inning, closer Kyle Finnegan was facing Kody Clemens who is a 28 year old with only 278 MLB at-bats before he faced Finnegan. He took a middle of the zone fastball on the outer third and smashed it over the center field wall, and snatched a 3-2 victory away from this Nats team. Washington has now lost 7-of-11 one-run games this season. The value of one run has become a real issue, and the focus normally goes to pitching like Finnegan’s BS last night — but Finn had been pitching great and not the overall problem here. It is offense, defense, and coaching in this case.
The Washington Nationals are mired in a three-game losing skid, and MacKenzie Gore is tasked with being the stopper. The will be facing a lefty on the Phillies side giving manager Dave Martinez the opportunity to change his lineup to add a few more right-handed batters.
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The Washington Nationals are in an 18-inning scoreless drought as MASN play-by-play voice, Bob Carpenter, was announcing every scoreless inning like it was breaking news. At one time, he said it was 21-innings and corrected himself. It’s bad, but we were talking about the bad offense in a series of three articles that started in April.
Of course sometimes you try to get greedy with a lineup to push more offense — and the defense suffers. This defensive alignment goes against all analytics. You could have achieved the same lineup with better results by putting Jesse Winker at DH and Eddie Rosario in LF for starters. Yes, Joey Gallo in RF, and Joey Meneses at 1B. Yes, it’s not perfect — but the Nats best fielder is Jacob Young and he is on the bench while Victor Robles and his -1.0 OAA mans the vast CF in Philadelphia. Please make sense of this for me?!?
Steve: Where did the Nats offense go? Two consecutive shutouts at the hands of the Chicago White Sox. I expect Joey Gallo to be called up for the Phillies series this weekend. But a lot more is needed IMHO just to put a charge into a team that went flat in Boston and Chicago with the offense. Before you say anything, I’m not expecting much from Gallo, and manager Dave Martinez was non-committal in his postgame about Gallo returning on Friday.
Don: No argument from me on that point. And unless Gallo magically turns things around, adding Gallo fixes nothing. As the title says, wholesale changes are needed.
On the assumption that General Manager Mike Rizzo is not going to call up James Wood, Brady House or Dylan Crews before the weekend, maybe it makes sense to see what the next tier of players can do. The Nats 40-man roster has one opening, so that is something we can take advantage of.
I am going to throw out some ideas that you can agree with, shoot down, and comment on.
The Washington Nationals split yesterday’s doubleheader, and today have the finale with the White Sox in Chicago. Today is a key game for the Nats with a tough weekend series lined up against the Phillies. With a goal to win series, the Nats have that within reach to take the rubber game in this match.
The Washington Nationals won the first game of this doubleheader today, and 19-31 will not happen as the team notched their 20th win of the 2024 season. With the season 25 percent complete, the sample sizes are fairly large now. Some stats you want to believe can still improve, and some like Trevor Williams‘ ERA of 1.94 you hope is going to be the greatest season in Nationals’ history.
We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
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