Acta pep talk reminds team of its potential

With the Washington Nationals in the middle of another losing stretch, manager Manny Acta called his players together for a meeting Friday afternoon designed to coax the team out of the funk. The meeting lasted five minutes. No players or coaches spoke, Acta said, and the message was the one Acta usually employs in team meetings: reminding players they're better than what they've shown while losing five of the previous six games. "We just wanted to make sure the guys know that after that 5-4 [stretch against Toronto, the New York Yankees and Boston] that we did play good enough ... Email </a