On Wednesday afternoon, the Washington Nationals took their weary legs and battered egos all the way to Los Angeles just to get schooled by the Dodgers in the final game of a road trip that clearly did them no favors. Surfing through Colorado and then Cali, all they met were frowns in this tough circuit. The defeat not only placed a lovely cherry on top of their losing record, but also made the seven-game trip more memorable as a tragicomedy.

You know life’s got them down when even a 2-0 loss to the Angels on Tuesday wasn’t enough carnage for one week. Yeah, that’s right – their Guardian Angels took a day off as they faced an unheavenly defeat while looking more like lost lambs than warriors on these recent battlegrounds.