The Washington Nationals completed a three-day swing through New York on Sunday, and for a team hoping to end one of the most phenomenal championship droughts in baseball history, this was not a happy visit.
On Friday, the Nationals lost, 2-1, on a 12th-inning, game-ending home run by the Mets’ Wilmer Flores, who just two nights earlier was in tears because he thought he had been traded. On Saturday, the Nationals were done in by Lucas Duda, who homered twice to lift the Mets to a 3-2 victory before the second-largest announced crowd in Citi Field’s history.