“This is what we anticipated from the get-go,” Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez said after the third straight win over the Philadelphia Phillies, their fourth straight win overall and their seventh win in the last ten games.
Since they fell a season-high 12 games under .500 on May 23rd, the Nationals are 16-7, and heading into this weekend’s three-game set with the Atlanta Braves in the nation’s capital, Martinez’s squad is just two games under .500 and 7.5 back in the NL East, having moved into third place this week for the first time since April 19th.