The Washington Nationals were the better team for 8 of the 9 innings today. Unfortunately, they were really bad that one inning. In the sixth inning, the Nationals allowed 8 runs in an embarrassing inning for an embarrassing bullpen.
This game kind of summed up a lot of the key themes of the Nationals season. There was a lot of promise from the young stars. James Wood and CJ Abrams each had three hits and Alex Call was fantastic. For the first five innings, Michael Soroka turned back the clock to 2019. There were legitimately a lot of positive things to take away from this game.