MIAMI -- With five days to go until Tuesday's non-waiver Trade Deadline, the Nationals began this four-game weekend series in Miami reckoning with the idea that perhaps there is no turnaround on the horizon to save this disappointing 2018 season. A question that not long ago was easily dismissed by those within the organization has now become a reality. Perhaps the Nationals would concede this once promising season and turn into sellers on the trade market.
They did their best to stave off that question on Thursday night, thanks to a three-run seventh-inning rally which catapulted them to a 10-3 win over Miami at Marlins Park.