Mark Zuckerman
Mark Zuckerman

Turner and Werth to begin rehab Monday with Syracuse

Turner and Werth to begin rehab Monday with Syracuse
SAN DIEGO - Two key injured Nationals regulars are ready to start playing in games again, with a return to the major league roster now likely sometime next week. Both Trea Turner and Jayson Werth will begin rehab assignments with Triple-A Syracuse on Monday, the Nationals announced today. Turner and Werth each had been working out in recent days at the club's spring training complex in West Palm Beach, ramping up their baseball activities after slowly working their way back from significant...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
injuries jayson werth mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime syracuse chiefs trea turner featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Game 122 lineups: Nats at Padres

Game 122 lineups: Nats at Padres
SAN DIEGO - It's another gorgeous day at Petco Park, where the Nationals will attempt to take the finale of this weekend series and head out of town having won three of four against the Padres in advance of a big series later this week in Houston. Daniel Murphy returns to the lineup after being scratched last night. The Nats will hope that helps inject some life into a batting order that was held to three hits and two walks last night by lefty Travis Wood and two San Diego relievers. Today...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
daniel murphy gio gonzalez lineups mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime san diego padres frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Looking at how Nats rotation lines up for the next week

Looking at how Nats rotation lines up for the next week
SAN DIEGO - It seems like right now the focus for the Nationals is less on what's happening today and more on what could happen tomorrow and in the next week and the weeks to come after that. Such is life when you're 14 games up with 41 games to play and have a host of injured players attempting to return in advance of a likely postseason run. So let's take a moment this morning and look at where the Nationals pitching staff stands heading into this new week. Max Scherzer's unexpected trip...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
erick fedde mark zuckerman max scherzer nationals nationals pastime rotation featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Fresh Strasburg is sharp in six-inning return from DL

Fresh Strasburg is sharp in six-inning return from DL
SAN DIEGO - The Nationals entered tonight's game at Petco Park with a simple, primary goal: Get Stephen Strasburg through a full start healthy. Not that they didn't care about trying to beat the Padres as well, but that goal - if they were willing to be honest about it - was secondary to the more pressing matter at hand. This is what happens when you own a 14-game lead on Aug. 19, with a magic number already down to 28 despite six more weeks of regular season games left on the schedule. So...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
dusty baker jose lobaton mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime san diego padres stephen strasburg featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Strasburg gives up early homer, settles in after that (Nats lose 3-1)

Strasburg gives up early homer, settles in after that (Nats lose 3-1)
SAN DIEGO - Stephen Strasburg is back on the mound pitching for the Nationals, and his arm appears to be healthy. That, quite frankly, matters more at the moment than results. Not that Strasburg has pitched poorly so far in his first start in four weeks. He battled some shaky command in the bottom of the first and served up a two-run homer to Yangervis Solarte but otherwise has looked sharp in his return from an elbow injury. Activated today following a four-week stint on the disabled list due...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime san diego padres stephen strasburg featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Murphy scratched from lineup, Madson still has finger pain

Murphy scratched from lineup, Madson still has finger pain
SAN DIEGO - The Nationals announced their starting lineup about 3 1/2 hours before tonight's game at Petco Park, standard procedure. A few minutes later, they had to announce a change to that lineup, which unfortunately also has become standard procedure for this injury-riddled ballclub. The latest: Daniel Murphy, who was scratched from tonight's lineup after the second baseman admitted to manager Dusty Baker he's been playing less than 100 percent in recent days. There was no formal...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
daniel murphy injuries mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime ryan madson san diego padres featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Game 121 lineups: Nats at Padres

Game 121 lineups: Nats at Padres
SAN DIEGO - When Stephen Strasburg departed his July 23 start in Arizona after two innings with a nerve impingement in his elbow and subsequently was placed on the disabled list, the Nationals said they expected the right-hander to miss only one start before returning to the mound in what was deemed a precautionary move. Tonight, 27 days removed from that start, Strasburg finally takes the mound again. Strasburg himself has suggested throughout the last four weeks that he could've returned...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
lineups mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime san diego padres stephen strasburg featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

In a bind, Nationals get a pitching gem from six relievers

In a bind, Nationals get a pitching gem from six relievers
SAN DIEGO - The task - getting nine innings out of a menagerie of relievers after Max Scherzer had to be scratched from Friday night's start - was daunting enough. Dusty Baker simply hoped he could get through this game without burning up his entire pitching staff, let alone actually beat the Padres. But when emergency starter Matt Grace was able to go 4 1/3 innings without surrendering a run, a task that felt awfully daunting at the beginning of the night suddenly felt doable. And thanks to...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
dusty baker mark zuckerman matt albers matt grace nationals nationals pastime san diego padres featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Scherzer insists he'll be ready to start Friday vs. Mets

Scherzer insists he'll be ready to start Friday vs. Mets
SAN DIEGO - Max Scherzer has been through this before. Only two weeks ago, as a matter of fact. Which is why the right-hander was massively annoyed but also confident that his inability to start tonight at Petco Park due to inflammation in his neck isn't cause for major concern. "It's just frustrating," he said following the Nationals' 7-1 win over the Padres, made possible by nine innings from six relievers. "I can sit here and laugh at it, because I know what the cause of this is and I...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
dusty baker injuries mark zuckerman max scherzer nationals nationals pastime san diego padres featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Grace steps up in emergency start (Nats win 7-1)

Grace steps up in emergency start (Nats win 7-1)
SAN DIEGO - Thrust into a less-than-ideal situation tonight, Matt Grace wound up not only surviving but thriving and giving the Nationals everything they could have asked for after Max Scherzer was a late scratch. Forced into an emergency start when Scherzer couldn't go following a recurrence of the neck injury that knocked him out of a start earlier this month, Grace took the mound at Petco Park hoping to give whatever he had as the first in a carousel of Nats relievers who will be asked to...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
howie kendrick mark zuckerman matt grace nationals nationals pastime san diego padres featured_sidebar matt wieters michael a. taylor frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Scherzer scratched, placed on DL with recurring neck injury

Scherzer scratched, placed on DL with recurring neck injury
SAN DIEGO - Max Scherzer thought his neck troubles were behind him. Turns out they aren't. And because of it, the Nationals are going to need to ask their bullpen to pitch an entire game tonight. And then someone else to make a start next week. Scherzer was scratched from his scheduled start against the Padres after reporting the same problem that forced him out of his Aug. 1 start in Miami. This time, however, the issue was on the other side of his neck, prompting the Nationals to place...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
dusty baker injuries mark zuckerman matt grace max scherzer nationals nationals pastime san diego padres stephen strasburg featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Game 120 lineups: Nats at Padres (Scherzer scratched)

Game 120 lineups: Nats at Padres (Scherzer scratched)
SAN DIEGO - The last time Max Scherzer faced the Padres, he allowed one run on three hits, struck out 13 and came within one out of a complete-game victory. That was May 26 at Nationals Park, and it was among the ace's most dominant outings of the season. Now Scherzer gets another crack at the majors' least productive lineup, taking the mound at Petco Park tonight in the second game of this weekend series. Anytime Scherzer takes the mound, there's reason to drop whatever you're doing and...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
lineups mark zuckerman max scherzer nationals nationals pastime san diego padres matt grace frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

With fewer pitches, Jackson is finding more success

With fewer pitches, Jackson is finding more success
SAN DIEGO - If it's not the first line of Edwin Jackson's baseball-playing obituary, it won't be much farther down from the lede. The most memorable game of Jackson's career, whenever it's finally over, almost certainly will be his June 25, 2010 no-hitter with the Diamondbacks. A no-hitter that included eight walks and a staggering 149 pitches. That game, more than any other, has come to encapsulate Jackson's long career. He's always had some of the best stuff in the sport, but even at...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
dusty baker edwin jackson mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime ryan zimmerman san diego padres featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Zimmerman's late blast lifts Nationals to 2-1 win over Padres

Zimmerman's late blast lifts Nationals to 2-1 win over Padres
SAN DIEGO - A jet-lagged Nationals lineup struggled all night at the plate against the Padres, not only to record hits in their series opener, but simply to make contact. Then one big blast from Ryan Zimmerman made up for all the swings and misses and lifted his team to a late-night victory. Zimmerman's opposite-field homer in the top of the eighth snapped a longstanding deadlock and gave the Nationals a 2-1 lead they managed to preserve thanks to more dominance from their new-look bullpen. It...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
edwin jackson mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime ryan zimmerman san diego padres featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Jackson minimizing damage early (Nats win 2-1)

Jackson minimizing damage early (Nats win 2-1)
SAN DIEGO - Despite putting himself into several jams, Edwin Jackson has managed to minimize the damage so far in tonight's start at Petco Park. Jackson, on the mound for the Nationals in their series opener against the Padres, has surrendered five hits - including three doubles - through four innings, but has allowed only one run to cross the plate. Jackson pitched around a leadoff double to Wil Myers in the bottom of the second, and completed that inning having thrown only 17 total pitches...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
adam lind edwin jackson howie kendrick mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime san diego padres featured_sidebar frontfeatured_nationals
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Nats principal owner Mark Lerner reveals cancer, leg amputation

Nats principal owner Mark Lerner reveals cancer, leg amputation
SAN DIEGO - Nationals vice chairman and principal owner Mark Lerner, the most visible member of the franchise's family ownership group, revealed tonight why he has been absent from public view for much of the season: Lerner has been battling cancer in his left leg for months and recently needed to have the limb amputated above the knee. "Thanks very much for your concern and good wishes," Lerner wrote in a letter provided to MASNsports.com through a club spokeswoman. "I know you recognize...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
mark lerner mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime ownership featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Madson goes on DL with finger sprain, Kelley activated

Madson goes on DL with finger sprain, Kelley activated
SAN DIEGO - Just when the Nationals appeared to have to solved their bullpen woes, one of their recently acquired arms has gone down with an injury. Ryan Madson was placed on the 10-day disabled list today with a sprained right index finger, an injury that is not believed to be serious but will nonetheless sideline the club's new setup man for the time being. Shawn Kelley, who already had been close to returning from a long rehab assignment, was activated off the DL and is available out of the...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
bryce harper enny romero injuries koda glover mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime ryan madson shawn kelley stephen strasburg featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Game 119 lineups: Nats at Padres (Madson to DL, Kelley activated)

Game 119 lineups: Nats at Padres (Madson to DL, Kelley activated)
SAN DIEGO - Hello from Petco Park, where it's a spectacularly perfect day. Shocking, I know, considering we're in San Diego. The Nationals open a seven-game road trip with the first of four here against the Padres, the undercard I suppose for next week's series in Houston against an excellent Astros club. The Padres are not excellent; they rank last in the majors, scoring 3.88 runs per game, and 23rd in the majors, allowing 5.08 runs per game. The Nats, of course, have boasted the National...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
edwin jackson lineups mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime san diego padres
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

Nationals keep winning, despite few actual winning streaks

Nationals keep winning, despite few actual winning streaks
The Nationals reached a new milestone during Tuesday night's win over the Angels. They're now 25 games over .500 for the first time this season. Given the fact the Dodgers were on the verge of moving to a staggering 50 games over .500, the Nationals' achievement may not sound all that impressive. But considering the injuries they've overcome, it's no small feat. At 71-46, the Nats are currently on pace to win 98 games, which would match the club record they set in 2012. "I've been...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
dusty baker mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals2
LinkedIn Pinterest
Mark Zuckerman

With another gem, Gonzalez's season of dominance continues

With another gem, Gonzalez's season of dominance continues
He's done this twice in 16 days now, flirted with something special late in a game he's started, so it wasn't unfair to ask Gio Gonzalez when tonight he thought about the fact he had a no-hitter going against the Angels. "Oh god, I'm over that already," the Nationals left-hander insisted. "No more of that. If I can just manage to keep going into the fifth, sixth, seventh inning, I'm just happy to see that." Gonzalez has managed to keep going into the sixth and seventh innings this...
Continue reading
0
Tags:
dusty baker gio gonzalez howie kendrick los angeles angels mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3
LinkedIn Pinterest



LATEST ORIOLES NEWS

LATEST NATIONALS NEWS

       
255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264