Tanner Roark decked the Cards for four scoreless innings, but St. Louis tagged Joaquin Benoit for both runs for a 2-1 win over Washington. The loss stopped the Nats’ win streak at five. Roark allowed just one hit and struck out three. Benoit gave up both Cards runs on three hits in just a single …
Defeat Tigers, 6-2; Mets, 7-3
The defending champs looked more like chumps in the 5th as they issued five walks, hit a batter, and committed an error to turn a 1-0 lead into a 7-1 deficit as the Nats took their third straight, 8-1. Stephen Strasburg gave up the lone Houston run on three hits over two innings and struck …
The Nats won their second straight yesterday against the Mets, 2-1, powered by three perfect innings by Max Scherzer and highlighted by a Victor Robles solo HR. Scherzer dominated a split-squad New York contingent, including a three-pitch strikeout of a 30-y.o. minor-leaguer that took 40 seconds of game time, and infinitely more for the dilettantes …
The Nats dug out of a 2-0 hole with a four-run 5th and a two-run 6th to win their second 2018 Grapefruit League game, 6-2 over the Braves. A.J. Cole made his first start of the spring and turned in two scoreless innings, though he had runners in scoring position in both frames – giving …
Three errors rendered all three Marlins runs unearned in a 3-1 win over the Nationals. Tanner Roark retired the side in the 1st and worked around a leadoff Robles HBP with a double play before giving up a two-out double. Back-to-back errors by Anthony Rendon extended the inning and led to two unearned runs. Roark …
The Nats got single runs in the 4th and 6th to build a 2-0 lead but gave them back in the 8th and couldn’t score in their final two trips to the plate for a 2-2 kiss-your-sister tie. Gio Gonzalez tossed two scoreless innings in his spring debut, allowing a hit and a walk while …
Nine runners left on, two thrown out on the basepaths
Highlighted by a five-run 6th, the Nats finally got in the win column with a 9-3 win over the Braves. Max Scherzer dispatched Atlanta on 23 pitches over two innings with a 1st-inning hiccup over the LF fence by Dansby Swanson for the lone hit and run allowed. The Nats’ ace walked none and struck …
Twice the Nats took one-run leads, twice the Marlins answered to tie, but Washington had no answer for Miami’s final salvo in the 7th for another 3-2 loss in Spring Training. As is common with road games in the spring, five of “our guys” filled the starting lineup and accounted for two (2) of the …