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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.

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.”