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White Sox hit Strasburg early for big inning (Nats win 9-5)

June 04, 2019, 4:15pm

Tuesday's series opener against the Chicago White Sox did not start off well in the first frame for Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg. The White Sox scored four runs by RBI singles from James McCann and Eloy JimÃ©nez, and two-out, two-run single with the bases loaded by the No. 8 hitter Yolmer SÃ¡nchez. Strasburg finally got out of the inning, but the damage was done. As he walked off the mound, Strasburg let home plate umpire Mike Everitt know he did not appreciate some borderline...

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Rizzo: Rutledge possesses "skill set we really go after"

June 03, 2019, 7:12pm

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Rizzo: Rutledge possesses "skill set we really go after"

The Nationals' first-round selection in the First-Year Player Draft, right-hander Jackson Rutledge, said he was pretty excited when he got the news the Nationals had chosen him with the 17th pick in the draft. "Hearing my name called was kind of an out-of-body experience," Rutledge said. "It's something you dream of and it (did not) really hit me until it happened." General manager Mike Rizzo was equally excited to be able to select Rutledge and feels the big right-hander brings a lot to...

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How the Nats are inching their way back into the race

June 03, 2019, 8:41pm

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How the Nats are inching their way back into the race

What seemed impossible only 10 days ago suddenly looks significantly more plausible today. Yes, the Nationals still face an incredibly daunting challenge as they try to turn their season all the way around, but they're actually taking steps in the right direction (with some help from the rest of the division). Winners of seven of their last nine, the Nats are finally starting to play a better brand of baseball and getting rewarded for it. And thanks to a suddenly freefalling Phillies club, the...

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Nationals offense major part of recent 7-2 run

June 02, 2019, 5:47pm

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CINCINNATI - The Nationals are in their best groove so far this season, winning seven of their last nine games. They have won three series in a row for the first time this season: 3-1 versus the Marlins, 2-0 against the Braves and 2-1 versus the Reds. The Dodgers beat the Phillies again, so the Nats, at 26-33, are seven games back in the National League East. The Nats still have a significant mountain to climb, because the Braves and Mets are not going away either, but Washington has to be...

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Nationals select pitcher Jackson Rutledge with No. 17 pick

June 03, 2019, 5:11pm

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The Nationals selected Texas junior college right-hander Jackson Rutledge with the No. 17 selection in the first round of the 2019 First-Year Player Draft. The 6-foot-8, 250-lb. Rutledge is rated as the No. 12 prospect in MLBPipeline.com's Top 200 prospects list. Rutledge features a 94-97 mph fastball that touches 99 mph, has a wipeout slider and a curveball with the classic 12-to-6 drop. Rutledge verbally committed to the University of Kentucky for baseball and hails from a suburb of St....

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Scherzer grunts his way to a vintage 15-strikeout win

June 02, 2019, 2:00pm

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Scherzer grunts his way to a vintage 15-strikeout win

CINCINNATI - Nationals right-hander Max Scherzer started off well Sunday, striking out five in a row at one point, holding the Reds without a base hit through three innings. Then he finished in another world. Scherzer ended up firing eight strong innings, grunting all the way and punching out a season-high 15 batters in a start where he threw a season-high 120 pitches as the Nationals won the series by beating the Reds 4-1. Scherzer put on a vintage performance, allowing only one walk on three...

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Nationals select right-hander Jackson Rutledge

June 03, 2019, 5:52pm

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The Washington Nationals selected collegiate right-handed pitcher Jackson Rutledge with the No. 17 selection in the 2019 First-Year Player Draft. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo, Assistant General Manager & Vice President of Scouting Operations Kris Kline and Director of Scouting Operations Eddie Longosz made the joint announcement. Rutledge, a 6-foot-8, 245-pound sophomore went 9-2 with a 0.87 ERA (8 ER/82.2 IP) and 134 strikeouts in 13 starts in...

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Martinez on Scherzer, Rodney, Taylor and more (Nats win 4-1)

June 02, 2019, 8:14am

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Martinez on Scherzer, Rodney, Taylor and more (Nats win 4-1)

CINCINNATI - Right-hander Max Scherzer is 4-1 versus the Reds in his career and 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA in two career starts at Great American Ball Park. But the Nationals are 2-10 in his starts this season. Nationals manager Davey Martinez does not read too much into these trends for Scherzer, good or bad. "It's an anomaly in baseball," Martinez said. "One thing I know about Scherzer, he goes out there and competes every outing, so I'm 100 percent guaranteed that's what he's going to do...

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Parra proving to be valuable mentor for Soto and Robles

June 02, 2019, 2:48am

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Parra proving to be valuable mentor for Soto and Robles

CINCINNATI - It was a great scene caught by the MASN cameras during the Atlanta series at SunTrust Park earlier this week. Eleven-year veteran Gerardo Parra was seen sitting on the top bench of the visitors dugout during the Nationals' matchup with the Braves, having a conversation with second-year outfielder Juan Soto. Parra has gladly taken on the responsibility of mentoring Latin teammates Soto and Victor Robles: talking baseball, their young lives in the game, and focusing on outfield...

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Tanner beats Tanner as Nats right the series with 5-2 win over Reds

June 01, 2019, 4:19pm

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Tanner beats Tanner as Nats right the series with 5-2 win over Reds

CINCINNATI - Tanner had a big influence in deciding the Nationals' 5-2 win over the Reds Saturday at Great American Ball Park. Both of them. In December of 2018, the Nationals traded starting pitcher Tanner Roark to the Reds for reliever Tanner Rainey. Saturday in Cincinnati they played against each other on the same field. Gerardo Parra cranked a three-run homer and Matt Adams slammed a solo shot off Roark (4-4), who spent six seasons with the Nats. The pair came in with excellent splits...

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Game 59 lineups: Nats at Reds (Rodney inks minors deal)

June 02, 2019, 5:20am

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Game 59 lineups: Nats at Reds (Rodney inks minors deal)

CINCINNATI - The Nationals have agreed to terms on a minor league deal with veteran reliever Fernando Rodney, who began the season with the A's, according to broadcast reports. Rodney will report to Triple-A Fresno. Craig Mish of FNTSY Sports Radio was first to announce the signing. Rodney, 42, struggled to an 0-2 record with a 9.42 ERA in 17 games with the A's, but Oakland manager Bob Melvin believes the hurler still has something left in the tank. "He's still throwing upwards of 95...

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News on Fedde, Zimmerman, Rosenthal and Adams (Nats win 5-2)

June 01, 2019, 11:10am

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News on Fedde, Zimmerman, Rosenthal and Adams (Nats win 5-2)

CINCINNATI - Nationals manager Davey Martinez is looking for right-hander Erick Fedde to continue to build off his last two outings today in the Queen City in his first-ever start against the Reds. Fedde threw 83 pitches over five innings May 26 in earning his first win of the season, a 9-6 victory over the Marlins. In that game, the former UNLV standout scattered four hits over five shutout innings with three walks and four strikeouts. He also went five innings May 21 and allowed only one run...

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More on Turner's finger, Corbin's slider and the Nats bullpen

June 01, 2019, 3:37am

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More on Turner's finger, Corbin's slider and the Nats bullpen

CINCINNATI - Trace the Nationals' season back to before shortstop Trea Turner broke his right index finger. Turner broke the finger when getting hit by a pitch in the first inning of the fourth game of the season on a pitch by Phillies right-hander Zach Eflin. Prior to that play, Turner was setting himself up for a very good season. He may still be able to get to that great season with more than 100 games to play, but that moment certainly placed an unfortunate detour on an incredibly positive...

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Corbin's off day helps Reds roll up big first inning, drop Nats 9-3

May 31, 2019, 7:02pm

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Corbin's off day helps Reds roll up big first inning, drop Nats 9-3

CINCINNATI - It took one game for left-hander Patrick Corbin to go from his best start of the season to his worst. On May 25 at Nats Park, Corbin tossed a complete-game, four-hit shutout in a 5-0 Nationals dispatch of the Marlins. It was his fifth win out of seven decisions. He struck out five and walked one. But Friday night at Great American Ball Park, the Reds were not going for Corbin's patented slider and rolled to eight runs in the first three innings to coast to a 9-3 win over the...

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Game 58 lineups: Nats at Reds

June 01, 2019, 6:59am

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CINCINNATI - The amazing run of Juan Soto continues. Even in a 9-3 series-opening loss against the Reds Friday night, Soto delivered with a single, a double and a homer, finishing with two of the Nationals' three RBIs. The left fielder is hitting .533 (16-for-30) with three doubles, one triple, three homers, eight RBIs, six walks and 13 runs scored in his last eight games. "He works on not only hitting but his overall game," said Nationals manager Davey Martinez. "He's getting better. I...

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Roark excited about chance to face old team Saturday (Nats fall 9-3)

May 31, 2019, 2:43pm

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Roark excited about chance to face old team Saturday (Nats fall 9-3)

CINCINNATI - On Wednesday, former Braves starter AnÃbal SÃ¡nchez pitched for his new team, the Nationals, in a 14-4 win in Atlanta. SÃ¡nchez tossed 5 1/3 perfect innings to earn his first victory of the season. On Saturday afternoon here, the tables will be turned, as former Nationals starter Tanner Roark gets the chance to pitch against Washington for the first time since he was traded in the offseason. Roark went to the Reds in exchange for reliever Tanner Rainey Dec. 12. "It's going...

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With improved health and depth, Nats lineup finally clicking

May 29, 2019, 10:06pm

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With improved health and depth, Nats lineup finally clicking

ATLANTA - If there was one aspect of the Nationals roster that seemed most likely to improve as the season progressed, it was a lineup that was short on results for the better part of two months but wasn't short on talent. Injuries to the likes of Anthony Rendon, Trea Turner, Juan Soto, Ryan Zimmerman and Matt Adams left the lineup a shell of its best form, but even as some of those players began to return to the active roster there were nights when it just didn't seem to click. That wasn't...

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Game 57 lineups: Nats at Reds

May 31, 2019, 5:13am

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CINCINNATI - After a day off, the Nationals arrive in Cincinnati for three games in a weekend series at the Great American Ballpark. The Nats swept the Atlanta Braves at SunTrust Park 5-4 and 14-4 to improve to 24-32, and have now won five of their last six games. It is the first time since April 10 the Nats have won two series in a row. At the start of play today, the Nats are nine games in back of the first-place Phillies in the National League East and six games out of a wild-card...

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Will new voting format help or hurt Nats' All-Star chances?

May 30, 2019, 7:47pm

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Will new voting format help or hurt Nats' All-Star chances?

For all their difficulties as a collective unit so far this season, the Nationals do have a host of players enjoying success on an individual level. Which means they could wind up with much better representation at the All-Star Game than you might normally expect from a team that resides closer to the bottom of the standings than the top. Even if their two All-Star mainstays from recent seasons don't figure into the picture the way they used to. Bryce Harper, an All-Star in six of his seven...

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With No. 17 pick in draft, Nats might move away from selecting a pitcher

May 29, 2019, 3:05pm

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With No. 17 pick in draft, Nats might move away from selecting a pitcher

Last year, the Nationals selected high school pitcher Mason Denaburg with the 27th overall selection in the First-Year Player Draft. The two-sport right-hander came into the draft recovering from biceps tendinitis, but hit the ground running in spring training. He was making very good progress and was healthy and strong in March. I sat down with him to talk about his experiences during first spring training experience. So would the Nationals go to a high school pitcher again with the 17th...