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West Coast trip up next – Having just gone 3-4 against teams with sub-.500 records on their recent homestand, things aren’t going so well for the Nats right now and up next is a brutal stretch through the NL West.
The Nationals will begin with three games at the Los Angeles Dodgers who, lucky for the Nats, have both Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke lined up to start. Meanwhile, Max Scherzer will miss the series altogether. That’s just the way it’s gone for the Nats recently, where even the teams who don’t set up their rotations for specific series like the Mets do seem to have it all fall into place.