A four-run 4th opened up a 2-1 game as the Astros blasted past the Nats, 6-2 on Sunday afternoon. Patrick Corbin remained in ’20s form as he was charged with two runs on three hits and a walk over two and a ⅓ innings. He walked one and fanned three. José Ferrer let in both …
The ‘pen is supposed to be one of the strengths of the Big Nats, even with the heavy workload it usually gets. Alas, it was not so on Saturday afternoon as St. Louis scored seven times in the last five innings to down Washington, 9-6. Projects starters Josiah Gray and Cade Cavalli pitched the first …
The wheels came off the bus for Max Scherzer in the 3rd as the Nats sent 13 men to the plate and eight runs in as they beat the Mets, 11-6. Meanwhile, former Met Trevor Williams stretched to two innings in his second appearance. He gave up one hit, no runs, no walks, and struck …
After blowing a 3-1 lead and falling behind 5-3 after 7½ innings, the Nats rallied for two in the bottom of the 8th. Both teams were able to get a runner on in the 9th, but neither could push him across for a 5-5 tie on Thursday afternoon. MacKenzie Gore was dinged for four hits …
The Yankees drew a two-out walk and hit a two-run home run with… wait for it… two outs in the bottom of the 9th to hand the Nats their third loss in four days, 4-2. Cory “Don’t Call Me Roger” Abbott got the start and tossed two scoreless innings, issuing a walk and striking out …
St. Louis scored five runs over the first five innings and held on for a 5-3 win yesterday afternoon in West Palm Beach Patrick Corbin picked up where he left off last summer and gave up back-to-back two-out HRs to put the Nats in a 2-0 hole before their first “ups.” He then gave up …
While not quite as deep into spring training as in years past, MLB still couldn’t get this to us during the doldrums. Consequently, this feels like a check-the-box exercise. After an outlying year in 2022, the MLB Pipeline Top 30 is back in lockstep with the Baseball America Top 30 for the most part. The …
In West Palm Beach, the Nats walked off the Astros for a 3-2 win while the Mets hung a three-spot in the 9th to hand the visitors from Washington a 6-3 loss. In West Palm Beach, the Nats loaded the bases on a pair of one-out singles by Brenner Cox and Yadiel Hernandez with a …
With single runs in the 8th and 9th innings, the Nats erased a 2-1 deficit and took the 2023 Grapefruit League Opener, 3-2 over the Cards in Jupiter, FL. MLFAs Leonel Valera and Erick Mejia both came through with a two-out single to score a leadoff double by Jake Alu in the 8th and a …
While not the worst offseason in this site’s existence (don’t make me write it), it’s probably the closest to the normality of the last decade (2010-2019), with neither a pandemic nor a coup d’état or a lockout to mess with us. It’s been amusing to watch the national media gnash its teeth over the new …