Same old story for Nats in loss

NEW YORK | The Washington Nationals have taken two nine-game road trips in the last month, a pair of twin gauntlets at the end of a six-month season. And they've followed the same script. In the first act, the Nationals create some optimism by taking two out of three. That disappears in the middle act, when teams burnish their playoff resumes by shutting down the Nationals for three days. In the final, most grisly act, the Nationals lie prostrate while playing another team with as little on the line as they have. It happened at the beginning of the month ... Email </a