The Nationals Are 'En Fuego' I BMitch & Finlay

Lynnell reacts to an amazing west coast trip from the Washington Nationals.

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00:00a historic weekend for the Washington Nationals.

00:03And it's crazy because I keep going back to the Ken Rosenthal piece

00:08that was published in The Athletic last week,

00:11really, you know, highlighting the Nats and their inability to draft,

00:15develop, and retain talent, right?

00:18So to me, and the irony about all of this is over the past couple of weeks,

00:26and I'll pull up the exact numbers here in a second,

00:29and not only does the – now that we sit here on Monday,

00:33does the timing of that article kind of look silly at this point.

00:37The Nationals are actually playing really good baseball.

00:39Heading into yesterday, and obviously they lost the series finale to Arizona,

00:43but heading into yesterday, there were winners of four in a row.

00:46They had won 10 out of their last 13 in a whopping 38 runs

00:50over their past four games.

00:52If you looked at that series versus Seattle at the tail end of last week

00:56and then the weekend series with the Diamondbacks, 38 runs –

01:01that was 41 runs scored over the course of the past four games,

01:05and they finished the month of May with a record above .500.

01:09So for all the talk about it being doomsday around here for the Washington Nationals,

01:15I think they're playing pretty well.

01:17I'll even take it a step further.

01:19This was actually leading into yesterday, via Nats communication.

01:24They had had the best record in all of Major League Baseball dating back to May 14th.

01:29So this talking point of this group being out of it,

01:35this group being dead in the right to one of the bottom feeders of Major League Baseball,

01:39I honestly –

01:41I honestly –