The Philadelphia Phillies are starting to run away with the NL East, so there's no better prescription for Rob Thomson's club than playing the NL East's bottom-

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What an unexpected weekend this has become. The Nationals have strung together three consecutive quality starts. And the bullpen, in spite of an ugly top of the seventh Friday night, has only been scored upon in one of eight innings so far in this series against the Phillies,

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The Phillies' outfield situation is far from stellar, which made Harrison Bader being their only trade deadline addition to that unit frustrating. As underwhelming as the group is, Castellanos might be the worst of the bunch. In fact, his -0.9 fWAR is tied for dead last among 159 qualified position players. It's been that bad.