Postgamer #33: Nats still can’t win at home, drop series opener to Milwaukee: A Recap

It was a rough one in the District tonight, as the Nationals dropped a 6-1 snoozer to the Milwaukee Brewers in game one of this weekend’s three-game series. The Nats were just outclassed tonight by a Brewers’ pitching attack led by their young ace Jacob Misiorowski, who unfortunately had to exit the game early tonight due to an apparent leg injury, but still managed to hold the Nats to zero hits over his 5.1 dominant innings. Jake Irvin struggled in numerous capacities tonight, but on the scoreboard — it was his defense who made it worse. We’ll go over those throughout this article, but all in all, not a great night to begin the homestand. Let’s get into it.

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Game #33 The season is 20% completed

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The Washington Nationals now open up their May calendar after they finished the month of April strong. At one point this past week in Chicago, the team was 5-games under .500 then went 4-1 in their final five games to finish the month of April. The Nats are now 15-17 and enter this series with Milwaukee at Nationals Park after sweeping them in Wisconsin.

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Can the Nats continue to win while leading the league in mistakes?

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Postgamer #32: Nats win a series in Queens on clutch hitting, bullpen, and defense: A recap

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The Washington Nationals had a 3-0 lead that they blew, and then fell behind in this game by a score of 4-3. In the 8th inning, CJ Abrams pounded a clutch 2-run homer to notch the win in this series against the Mets.

The team got 5.0 innings of 1-run baseball from the bullpen, and the starter, Miles Mikolas, received some great defense like a James Wood‘s home run robbery off of Juan Soto‘s bat. Later in the game, Wood would dive to rob another ball.

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Game #32 Nats have a series to win

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The Washington Nationals have listed Miles Mikolas as their starting pitcher on the lineup card meaning there is no opener unless they change-up things before the game. These are the games where you hope that the Nats have figured something out with this decision.

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Postgamer #31: Nats win in a blowout with Cavalli and House putting the game away: A recap

The Washington Nationals got blown-out on Tuesday by the Mets, and tonight the Nats returned the favor. The Nats got going early with a 2-0 lead, and never gave it up — even as things got scary at times. Cade Cavalli‘s first inning of work where he loaded the bases turned into a zero with a high 30-pitch count. He settled down as his team got him a 9-1 lead, and Cavalli went 6.0 full innings with 10 strikeouts and only two runs given up.

In the 4th inning, the Nats put the game away with a 7-run inning highlighted by a Brady House grand slam. The Nats would tack on four more runs the rest of the way, and the bullpen threw a shutout to run away with this one with two touchdowns in a 14-2 crushing of the Mets.

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Game #31 Nats need to get even in NYC

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The Washington Nationals got blown-out last night, and come to the stadium today on a clean slate. The Nats have Cade Cavalli starting with the hopes that he can continue what Jake Irvin and Foster Griffin did over the weekend.

Yesterday was another day for the Nationals where an error/mistake changed an entire game. One thing for sure that plagues this team, besides leading the league in errors, is that the team has often allowed adversity to ruin the remainder of the game. Errors and mistakes happen. How you deal with them has to change.

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The Nightmare on Replay for the Nats

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Game #30 Nats first trip to NYC this season

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The Washington Nationals have their first series of this season with the New York Mets. A month ago, you might have expected the Mets to be in second place with the Nats in last place. Today, it is the reverse of that. The Mets are having issues. Unfortunately for the Washington Nationals, they have arguably their worst two pitchers are going tonight and in the series finale on Thursday with Zack Littell and Miles Mikolas respectively. Can either throw a much-needed gem?

This will be another cool/cold weather game tonight. It has been some crazy Spring weather in the east. By now, the team should be used to it after starting their season in Chicago, and just playing this past weekend again in Chicago.

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The pitching staff has been excellent, good, inconsistent, and terrible all wrapped into one.

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