Actually, for a somewhat more apt comparison than the calendar, at the end of the 56th game of 2019, the team was 24-32. Assuming a loss today, the Nats will be 24-32.
Yeah, but that team had been missing several guys to injury in that first 19-30 stretch. The injured guys (remember, Rendon missed 15 games out of the first 35 that year, Turner missed 39 of the first 50, and Soto missed ten games in that stretch as well) were back by now, which is why they started winning. They went from 19-30 to 24-32.
This team ain't that. Yeah, Soto was out a little while, but Strasburg's gone too and he ain't coming back for a while.