WASHINGTON — Seven games are done, which means more than 10 percent of the season is in the books a week after it began.

Maybe more. The Nationals will not play their scheduled three-game series this weekend against the Miami Marlins. Those games are suspended. They’re also in question. The Nationals would like to make them up at some point — what contending team wouldn’t want to be sure to play Miami — before the season is over. They could come around the bend as doubleheaders. A report Thursday suggested doubleheaders could be cut to two seven-inning games this season because of the ongoing schedule problems. Stay tuned for that.

Meanwhile, the Nationals are a meandering 3-4 heading into a four-day break from games. They will do intrasquad work over the weekend. Juan Soto is expected to return. Stephen Strasburg could throw a bullpen session. A re-assembling of the band while everyone catches their breath is expected to transpire.

What has happened on the field the first week was at times ugly. The Nationals did a lot of the “little things” poorly before tightening up the last two games, including Thursday’s 6-4 win against Toronto.

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The Thursday mid-afternoon starting lineup was odd out of necessity. Starlin Castro returned to the No. 3 spot. Asdrúbal Cabrera hit cleanup. Kurt Suzuki hit fifth. Without Soto or Howie Kendrick — or Anthony Rendon — the Nationals offense is a severe patchwork. One which Carter Kieboom recently entered.

Kieboom started at third base Wednesday and Thursday. Davey Martinez and Mike Rizzo both earlier in the week alluded to Kieboom having a groin problem which restricted his lateral movement. It was cited as the reason Cabrera remained in the field at third base and Kieboom worked as a designated hitter or, mostly, watched from the bench. Kieboom had four at-bats in the first five games.

But, his groin healed and Cabrera’s foot soreness, after following a foul ball off it, put Kieboom back in the lineup. Kieboom has reached base six consecutive times since, launching his OPS to 1.028 by early evening Thursday.

“I love his discipline right now,” Martinez said of Kieboom. “The fact he is using the whole field is really nice, too. The key for him — as a young hitter — is to swing at strikes and not chase. He did a good job of that the last couple of days.”

Castro was slogging along. A local radio host called him “this year’s Trevor Rosenthal” — half-joking, half-not. Martinez dropped him in the lineup to sixth before moving him back to third Thursday. He went 4-for-5, yanking his average from .250 to .360.

Judging outcomes on small samples is equal parts fun and dangerous. Social media is the perfect construct for the overreactions to a slow or brisk start. Castro received the grousing. Kieboom has received the lauding.

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So, what does Martinez think in a 60-game season, which, ostensibly, is a small sample size?

“We got to stay in the moment,” Martinez said. “That’s the biggest thing for me. I tell the coaches all the time: we really got focus on the moment.

“We want to win as many games as possible because we always do — whether it’s a short season or not. But we’ve got to keep in mind we need these guys for the duration of the 60 games.”

For half a week, Castro was bad. For half a week, good. Kieboom, working amid all his expectations, has taken off quickly. Whether any of this means anything won’t be known for another two months.

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