Trea Turner drove in three of the four Nats runs with a double in the 3rd and a two-run single in the 4th as the Nats doubled up the Astros, 4-2. Anibal Sanchez broke the streak of strong starting pitching as Houston had no problem in the 1st, scoring both runs on three hits and …
Brandon Snyder’s grand slam in the bottom of the 8th sealed the deal, as the Nats ‘pen was not as bad as the Twins’ for a 10-6 win. SSDG – Patrick Corbin continued the streak of the starters’ brilliance, allowing an unearned run (thanks to Carter Kieboom) in the 1st but otherwise dominating the Minnesota …
Two unearned runs in the 9th – courtesy of four (4) errors – made it closer than it should have been, as the Nats got back over .500 with a 5-4 win over the Marlins. Stephen Strasburg pitched two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and fanning two in his spring debut (hey, that rhymes!). Veterans …
The Nats built a 5-0 lead after three innings, with Max Scherzer laying three goose eggs across the bottom of the “Fenway South” scoreboard. In the space of 13 batters, beginning in the 4th and ending with a two-run HR to the third batter faced in the 5th (and no outs), the Red Sox erased …
After being limited to five on Tuesday, the Washington Nationals rapped out 13 hits in a 14-8 win over the Houston Astros. Jeremy Hellickson turned in the obligatory two scoreless innings to round out the presumptive starting five. He put on two baserunners (hit, walk) and struck out three. Joe Ross was the first man …
The Cards scored all six runs against the ‘pen to hand the Nats their second straight loss, 6-1. After two scoreless innings from Anibal Sanchez and one from Sean Doolittle, St. Louis went to town on Tanner Rainey in the 4th with four runs on four hits and a walk in the space of just …
An early 3-0 lead vanished in the middle innings as the Braves pounded Nats relievers for nine runs over four innings in a 9-4 loss. Patrick Corbin turned in two scoreless innings in his Washington debut, giving up a hit and striking out two. He left with a 1-0 lead, courtesy of a Victor Robles …
The Nats scored in five separate innings—putting up crooked numbers in three—as they folded the Cards, 12-2 on Sunday afternoon. Hunter Jones and Jake Noll both went deep, but the real damage was done by the St. Louis throwers, as they issued eleven walks and two wild pitches while fanning just eight batters. Despite Victor …
With single runs in their last two “ups,” the Nationals walked off the Astros to take the 2019 Grapefruit League opener, 7-6. Carter Kieboom (1-1, BB) drew a walk to lead off the 9th, took second on a Hunter Jones sacrifice, and scored two batters later on Adrian Sanzhez’s two-out double. The win went to …
Believe it or not, it hasn’t been this early since 2013, but after a second straight offseason where prune juice seemed the better choice than orange juice, it’s still not too soon. In years past, I would remark about expectations, but it’s difficult to discern with the obsession over whether the Bryce Harper era is …