Nationals president of baseball operations and general manager Mike Rizzo may be a staple of the DC sports scene, but his Chicago fandom still runs deep. He's a big fan of the Bulls -- Michael Jordan in particular -- and still has a soft spot in...
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Believe it or not, we've made it: the MLB postseason is here. In what was the most unique and unprecedented season in the history of the sport, the 60-game sprint is over and the newly expanded 16-team playoff is upon us. All 16 teams are...
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The 2020 season was a disappointing one for the Nationals. After being robbed of the chance to celebrate their World Series title with their fans because of the coronavirus pandemic, the team got off to a slow start and injuries combined with a lack...
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... both the Cardinals and Cubs. These NL contenders have been up there with the Nationals as some of the best teams in the Senior Circuit over the past 10 years. Chic ...
Lucas Giolito’s name began to zoom around social media late Tuesday afternoon. A perfect game through five innings became a perfect game through six innings. Everyone started to perk up and pay more attention to what the 26-year-old was doing in the...
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... ficult, and is generally a fool’s errand. What is clear at this point is the Nationals are short on major-league ready, impact pitching prospects. It appears two l ...
Major League Baseball’s next experiment starts Tuesday at Target Field when the Minnesota Twins host the Houston Astros. It’s the first game in the new postseason format which dragged several unqualified teams into a 16-team tournament. The Los...
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... eyond the 10th inning. Only one made it past the 11th inning. This year, the Nationals played four extra-inning games (6.7 percent). Of those, three were decided i ...
It may be hard to believe that an organization that just won a World Series could still lack some credibility. Believe it or not though, that's exactly where the Nationals were until last Friday. Giving manager Davey Martinez an extension and making...
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... e Nationals added credibility as a franchise / Nationals It may be hard to believe that an organization that just won a World Series ...
Juan Soto is the best young hitter in baseball. In fact, if he had his 2020 stats spread out over a normal 162-game season, we might be calling him the best hitter in baseball, period. And to think, he might have turned to pitching instead. What a...
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... ast Soto, including figuring out a way to dominate on the mound too. But the Nationals, and baseball fans everywhere, have to be pretty pleased with the way things ...
Everyone who left Nationals Park on Sunday following the season finale wondered what next year will look like. A full season? A full stadium? Normalcy back to Major League Baseball and the country as a whole?
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... to have a promising future. Asdrúbal Cabrera Cabrera’s second stint with the Nationals is coming to a close. He’s 34 years old, a hot start preceded a rough end an ...
Like the Washington Nationals, the Philadelphia Phillies played their final MLB game of the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season. Also similar to the Nationals, the Phillies have some interesting offseason decisions to make. Chief among those...
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... se important decisions is re-signing catcher J.T. Realmuto, something former Nationals slugger Bryce Harper says should be a top priority. Bryce Harper 🔥🔥 “JT Rea ...
WASHINGTON -- Sunday brought one more too-early turn, a left onto the concrete steps hundreds of feet before the clubhouse doors or usual walk to central elevators. Up the stairs, through blue double doors and onto the first concourse. Walk around...
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... hose writing about the sport. It’s over now for everyone associated with the Nationals. The end of the 2020 season -- seemingly such a galactic goal three months a ...
WASHINGTON -- Juan Soto’s second-inning single up the middle Sunday wrapped up the National League batting title for him. It’s an achievement in both to be lauded and framed with context. First, Soto, just 21 years old, continues to astonish at the...
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... the middle moved him to 1-for-1 on the day. He did not hit again because the Nationals removed him from the lineup just before Trea Turner’s grand slam put them in ...
The Nationals’ hottest hitter? Andrew Stevenson. Not Juan Soto or Trea Turner. It’s Stevenson, who has a 10-game hitting streak and a seven-game streak with an extra-base hit. Both streaks were extended when he homered Saturday against Jacob deGrom...
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... en he homered Saturday against Jacob deGrom in the third inning of Game 1 at Nationals Park. Stevenson hit a slider to center field for his first home run of the s ...
Max Scherzer plans to comb through the video this offseason and "reinvent himself" to combat opposing hitters after they changed their approach against him in 2020.
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... e ball for every one of his turns in the rotation this season, including the Nationals’ Opening Night game against Gerrit Cole and the Yankees. The right-hander ha ...
Mike Rizzo said everyone in the organization was excited Saturday because manager Davey Martinez received a contract extension. Among those pleased is Max Scherzer, who is moving into the final year of his seven-year contract.
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... to sign him back.” Martinez reportedly for three years. It will make him the Nationals’ longest-tenured manager. Scherzer’s mound exchanges with Martinez quickly b ...
