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The Washington Nationals got a rare road day-off before this road trip as they flew on Sunday to Seattle, Washington. That gave the team a full day on Monday to get used to the west coast time change. With this game, the Nats will have reached the 33 percent completion mark in the season.

The Washington Nationals are going for a series win against the Giants and former Nats’ draftee, LHP Robbie Ray. The lefty was drafted by the Nationals in the 12th round in 2010 out of high school. After the 2013 season, general manager Mike Rizzo traded Ray along with Ian Krol and Steve Lombardozzi to the Detroit Tigers for Doug Fister. In 2021, Ray won the Cy Young award after several years of ace seasons.

The Washington Nationals had a great chance last night to take an early lead with their ace, MacKenzie Gore, on the mound. Gore had thrown 6.0 innings of zeros until he came out for the 7th inning. Suffering from a deep bruise on his thigh after he was nailed by a line drive earlier in the game, Gore’s lead-off walk that he left as an inherited runner scored, and that is all the Giants needed in a 4-0 game that ended the Nats 5-game winning streak.

The Washington Nationals pulled off a walk-off extra innings win that moved their winning streak to 5-games. The last time the Nationals won more than 5-games in a row was during their 8-game winning streak that spanned from September 23 to September 29 in 2019.

The Washington Nationals continue to have inclement weather in the area, and this game set for last night was postponed until September 16th in a day/night doubleheader against the Braves. The Nats beat the Braves on Tuesday night, and Washington extended their winning streak to 4-games and a 5-1 record since the team had a team meeting a week ago. One of the players who was just heating up for the Nats, Dylan Crews, is now on the IL with an oblique strain. Crews hit the go-ahead home run yesterday, and had a 3-run smash in the game before that. Taking Crews spot on the roster will be Robert Hassell III for his MLB debut.

The Washington Nationals enter today after a day-off yesterday. Since their team meeting last week, the team has a 4-1 record. Coincidentally, the Nats had that team meeting in Atlanta, and won their first game after the meeting to end a long losing streak. No easy task today as the Nationals are supposed to face the Braves’ ace, Spencer Strider, in his first game off of the IL. If Nats’ starter, Mitchell Parker, is as good as he was in the month of April, the Nats could be hard to beat in today’s game.