{"id":379389,"date":"2026-08-24T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379389\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:58:07","slug":"nationals-nightmare-road-trip-ends-with-a-miami-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379389\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals\u2019 nightmare road trip ends with a Miami sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MVN7UE4BMJEG5I7WYFVXCU2KN4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For much of this season, the Washington Nationals looked better than they had in years. They fought back late in games, had a winning record and were on the outer edges of the playoff hunt.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KOLXHHK7OZGYJBTII4V5ZBAFJE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Then August hit. Three key pieces departed at the trade deadline, two veteran rotation placeholders were designated for assignment and two all-stars suffered injuries. As the Nationals concluded their three-city road trip Sunday with a 6-2 loss at the Miami Marlins, it\u2019s apparent how much they are missing those pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For much of this season, the Washington Nationals looked better than they had in years. They fought back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-379389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}