A 2-4 homestand after a 1-5 trip left the Washington Nationals 4-12 overall after 16 games right into the month of August, and currently Davey Martinez's club is back on the West Coast for a six-game roadway journey to San Diego 4) and Seattle 2 ). So it does not obtain any easier. "We just got to remain to fight," the Nats' captain told press reporters after a 3-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday in D. C MacKenzie Gore Shorts. "Remain to function. I think we're playing excellent baseball. Our protection is playing a great deal far better. " Today was simply, there was no run-production. I thought we had a chance to win the video game. We just-- we couldn't rack up runs. " The Nationals did rating 2 operate on 6 hits, jumping bent on a 1-0 lead and connecting things up briefly at 2-2 in the 6th, but it had not been tied for long, with the Cubs racking up a run in the top of the 7th and holding on for a win and 2 of 3 in the series. Joey Meneses increased to prolong a hit streak to 11-straight games, and scored the Nats' second run, if you're trying to find positives on the offending end, and he's currently 16 for 41. 390/. 432/. 707) with the double and 4 home runs over the 11-game stretch. "He's swinging the bat well, he actually is," Martinez said of the run the 30-year-old newbie has gotten on throughout the hit streak and since he made his MLB debut earlier this month. "And he stated he missed a round he must have hammered, just obtained a little also hostile, ventured out front a bit, but he's swinging the bat well, and he's playing well. Like I said before, I'm truly surprised just how well he vacates in the outfield. We understood that he could play initial base, yet he relocates fairly well in the outfield, and he's obtained a great strong arm. He's assisting us a lot and he's aiding us in lots of methods. " Up following for Meneses and the Nationals is a four-game series in San Diego with the Padres who took 2 of 3 in D. C. last week.