Back-to-back singles with two out in the 9th brought the tying run to the plate, but Andrew Pinckney struck out looking as the Nats dropped their first 2025 Grapefruit League game, 3-0 to the Astros. DJ Herz made his first start of the spring but was taken deep for a two-run HR following a two-out …
Highlighted by a two-run HR by Robert Hassell and two-run single by Brady House, the Nats broke open a 6-5 game with a six-run 6th as they downed the Marlins, 14-7 on Tuesday afternoon. Trevor Williams was the first starter to pitch multiple innings and “worked on some things” to the tune of a two-run …
Washington scored four times in its first five “ups” to take a 9-3 lead and won their second straight game, 11-6. Newcomer Shinnosuke Ogasawara worked around a two-out double to pitch a scoreless 1st, which “earned” him the ST win. He walked none and struck out none. Once again Dylan Crews was the only watchlist …
Robert Hassell’s three-run double in the top of the 9th snapped a 3-3 tie as the Nationals doubled up the Astros, 6-3 in the opener of 2025 Spring Training. The bases-clearing double gave Tyler Stuart gave the dreaded blown-save-win after giving up two runs in the bottom of the 8th. Marquis Grissom then pitched a …
With 1933 in full force everywhere else, let’s turn our eyes to Spring Training 2025, even if it’s in the cesspool known as Florida. (My apologies to cesspools). MASN finally announced its Spring Training schedule yesterday, and if you grew up rooting for the Mets or Cardinals before you moved to the DMV… well, you’ll …
Position players report today – tomorrow we find out who’s in the best shape of their lives. We’re still a few more days away before the first spring training game, to be started by MacKenzie Gore, according to MASN. As noted in the comments, Top 100 season continues with FanGraphs issuing its version with Dylan …
Well, it’s here. Pitchers and catchers report today to West Palm Beach. Yay. Like Stevie Wonder in that famous SNL ad, MASN is on the ball for its 2025 Spring Training schedule. But otherwise, Mark Zuckerman has you covered on the 29 pitchers and 28 position players trying to make the club. For us, however, …
The streak of waiting one day too few continues… Yesterday, Keith Law released his Top 20 for the Nats, and let’s just say it differs from MLB Pipeline and Baseball America: Dylan Crews, OF Seaver King, SS Travis Sykora, RHP Brady House, 3B Jarlin Susana, RHP Kevin Bazell, C Alex Clemmey, LHP Cade Cavalli, RHP …
I’ve been waitng for something more substantial than the Nats moving up one spot (from #15 to #14) in Baseball America’s latest organizational rankings for the first post of the month but I may just have to put this short post in to let the search engines people know the site hasn’t gone dark. As …
I’ve actually been waiting to make this post since Tuesday, but the obligatory items from MLB and BA got in the way (hey, that rhymes!). As best as I can tell, this is the earliest they’ve been completed. But that’s not necessarily a good thing. For starters, I used to wait until multiple prospect books …