Washington Nationals’ lineup for 3rd of 4 with the Atlanta Braves

Final evening’s loss was Washington’s eighth in a row total, their eighth straight to Atlanta’s Braves this season, and thirteenth consecutive loss to their NL East rivals at dwelling in Nationals Park.

Wanna really feel worse about all this? Who stated, “Sure!”?

Anyway, through the Nationals’ put up sport notes:

“The Braves’ 13 sport successful streak at Nationals Park is the longest by any crew within the stadium’s historical past…Nationals Park is one in every of 12 parks in Main League Baseball the place the house crew doesn’t outright maintain the stadium’s longest win streak.”

Ouch.

MASN’s Mark Zuckerman added to the pile:

“[The Nationals] are a crew that has misplaced 24 of its final 26 video games to division opponents. And they’re a crew that has misplaced 14 of its final 15 video games total.

“That final cover-your-eyes truth stands out as the hardest to just accept of all, as a result of that is the primary crew in Nationals historical past to lose 14 of 15 inside a single season.”

Supervisor Davey Martinez’s tackle all this after final evening’s 8-4 loss to the Braves and his ideas on the place the Nationals discover themselves proper now?

“They’ve received to grasp that this group was a winner for a very long time,” Martinez stated, as quoted on MASN.

“This occurs to the perfect of the perfect. However we’ve received to battle again. We’ve received to maintain taking part in.

“Neglect about what occurred at this time, come again tomorrow and go 1-0. That’s the mentality.”

The Nationals scored three within the ninth and loaded the bases to deliver the tying run to the plate earlier than the top of the membership’s eighth straight loss.

“None of those guys likes that we’re dropping,” Martinez stated. “That’s why you see them proceed to play the way in which they’re taking part in on the finish of video games, making an attempt to come back again. However we’ve received to come back out and put the strain on the opposite crew, and attempt to rating first and go from there. We’ve received to try this. Once we begin doing that, issues will flip round for us.”

“It’s powerful and I can inform it wears on the fellows, you recognize,” he added, “however they battled again, we’ve been doing that fairly a bit. So like I stated, we received to maintain our heads up.

Will at this time be the day the Nationals finish all these streaks? Let’s see…

HERE’S THE NATIONALS’ LINEUP FOR THE 3RD OF 4 WITH THE BRAVES: