Comparative dates on which the Nationals notched their 33rd win, each season:
2012 - 8th June (56th match of season)2005 - 8th June (59th match)
2011 - 16th June (69th match)
2010 - 22nd June (72nd match)
2006 - 25th June (77th match)
2008 - 29th June (83rd match)
2007 - 1st July (81st match)
2009 - 2nd August (105th match)*
*This was the start of an eight-match winning streak that would add just a scintilla of respectability to that year's Nightmare Nine (they actually went 33-42 after the All-Star break for a somewhat-better-than-their-first-half .440).
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THIS DAY WITH THE '05 OVERACHIEVERS: Wednesday 8th June 2005 at RFK, the Nats beat the A's 7-2 for their sixth straight win; Loaiza for the win, Glynn the loser, homers by Church, Schneider and Castilla:
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Got home from the Mystics in time to catch the action from the bottom of the 8th onward (Stics lost again 76-70, this time to New York Liberty - the tried-and-true-and-tiresome formula, get 20+ points behind early, mount a second-half comeback but fall just short).
