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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.

The Washington Nationals put a 6-spot on the Orioles in the first inning while going 6-for-7 with a walk the first time through the order on their way to a 10-6 victory. The Nats not only won this series with just today’s game remaining to be played, they have already won the season series against Baltimore with 4-wins against them in the books.

Before yesterday’s game, the Orioles fired their manager, Brandon Hyde. He was the third manager fired this season in MLB. The Nationals were mired in a 7-game losing streak into the mid-week. The Nats fired nobody. They did have a team meeting that seemed to be about the lack of energy if you heard what Nasim Nunez said, “We didn’t have any energy, I felt like, then we had a [team] meeting, and it felt like it sparked a lot. I want to go out there and set the tone, and hopefully people follow.”

The Washington Nationals won a game that on paper defied all logic. That is baseball. Before today’s game, the Orioles fired their manager, Brandon Hyde. They didn’t even give him a chance to get to 19-31 from their current 15-28. As you know, the 19-31 record was the spot the Nats were in during this week in 2019 en route to their World Series win. Speaking of 19-31, the Nats are at the exact record as they were in 2019 at 19-27. You hope Washington can capitalize on the momentum from last night and find a way to go 20-27 so we don’t have to worry about 19-31.

The Washington Nationals are back in the D.C. area and will have a short commute for a weekend series in Baltimore in the continuation of the Battle of the Beltways. This might feel like a battle of two struggling teams with the Nationals ahead of the Orioles in the overall MLB standings. The only difference is the O’s were not supposed to be in a rebuild.

The Washington Nationals ended their 7-game losing streak last night. They did not even play close to perfection. Yet, the Braves made more mistakes in the end that gave Washington a 5-4 win in what felt like a must-win game.

The Washington Nationals are mired in a 7-game losing streak, and the Nats actually jumped out to a 2-0 lead — and then it was the slow bleed as the game got away from the Nationals. It is tough to watch, but at some point the ball has to bounce in the Nats’ favor.