Homers by Bryce Harper and Wilson Ramos accounted for five of the six runs scored in the Washington 1st, as the Nats rocketed past the Astros, 8-5 for their fifth win of the spring. Tanner Roark, who was scheduled to relieve, instead got the start as Doug Fister was scratched with a sore elbow. The …
After rallying for two runs to tie the game in the top of the 9th, the Nats gave it away with a leadoff walk, an error, a wild pitch, and a two-out single for a 3-2 loss to the Braves. Danny Rosenbaum suffered the loss as the Washington pitcher in the 9th, charged with the …
It’s not as detailed as anyone would like it to be (e.g. 30 players were reportedly signed, but no complete list), but here are the highlights from the Baseball America review of the Washington Nationals International signings in 2013. As noted previously, the CBA limited the Nationals to the smallest pool for signings for the …
Brian Goodwin started the Nats comeback with two-run shot in the 7th to tie the game at 4-4 while Matt Skole and Sandy Leon blasted two- and three-run blasts respectively as part of the Nats seven-run 8th in an 11-5 Washington win this afternoon. The win snapped a two-game slide and saw the Nationals hit …
Lowlighted by a bases-clearing triple against a five-man infield in the Braves’ four-run 8th, Atlanta doubled up Washington 8-4 to hand the Nats their second straight Grapefruit League loss. Ace Stephen Strasburg breezed through two scoreless innings in his first spring-training start, needing just 15 pitches to get six outs, one by way of the …
Ross Detwiler’s campaign to retain his No. 5 slot in the rotation got off on the wrong foot as the Yankees tagged the 2007 1st Rd. pick for four runs in the second inning in a 4-2 win over the Nationals. Detwiler retired the side in order in the 1st, but couldn’t get out of …
Offseason acquisitions Doug Fister and Jerry Blevins made their Nats spring debuts as the DC nine bested the Miami Marlins, 10-3 on Sunday afternoon. Fister gave up a run on two hits and a walk and struck out two over the first two innings. Blevins pitched a scoreless 9th, giving up a walk. The win …
The only true contest in this game was determining which was worse — the sloppy play on the field or the unseemly call on the radio. Somehow, the Nationals didn’t lose despite committing a week’s worth of errors in one inning while the Braves scored nine times to take a 14-6 lead at the game’s …
Michael Taylor lived up to the hype this week, smacking an RBI triple to right-center in the top of the 9th to complete Washington’s comeback for a 5-4 Nats win over the Mets in the 2014 Grapefruit League opener. The three-base knock gave Manny Delcarmen the win for a scoreless 8th in which the bullpen …
Finally. Unlike football, it never feels like this has begun too soon. I don’t believe expectations this year for the big Nats are as outsized as they were a year ago, but the enthusiasm remains the same. I’d like to think that 2013 may have parsed the 2012 bandwagon fans, but then I read some …