Last-place teams collide when Cardinals visit Nationals

A pair of last-place teams will meet for a three-game series beginning Monday, but one of them is feeling a bit better about things.

The St. Louis Cardinals, last in the National League Central, travel to Washington after taking two of three from the New York Mets while the Nationals, last in theNL East, were swept by the visiting Miami Marlins.

Nolan Arenado hit a two-run home run in the first and a solo homer in the n