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Tommy Milone had a week to think about it.
How he could at least come close to duplicating his last start against the exact same opponent. Whether he could keep pounding the strike zone and inducing weak contact.
Shut out the Nationals for six innings? Let's give it another shot.
By the top of the fifth inning, the attention fell squarely upon pitching prospect Keegan Akin and his major league debut. Repeating the magic of last Friday wasn't going to happen.
Anthony Santander extended his RBI...
BALTIMORE - Given the negative developments that already taken place over the preceding hours since they arrived at Camden Yards for 1 4/9 games of baseball, the Nationals would have been excused if they all threw up their hands in disgust at the sight of Stephen Strasburg walking off the mound with a trainer in the bottom of the first and decided to pack it in for the rest of the night.
An early season of injuries, postponements and erratic play had now taken down one of their aces, who...
BALTIMORE - Stephen Strasburg's hand doesn't appear to be OK after all.
Strasburg had to come out of tonight's game against the Orioles after throwing only 16 pitches, his velocity down and his command off, the nerve issue in his right hand that prevented him from making his first two starts of the season evidently causing a problem again.
The Nationals were hoping Strasburg would be fine five days after he made his delayed 2020 debut against this same Orioles lineup in D.C. After that...
The Washington Nationals selected the contract of infielder Luis GarcÃa and placed infielder Starlin Castro on the 10-day Injured List (broken right wrist) on Friday. Additionally, the Nationals transferred left-handed pitcher Sam Freeman to the 60-day Injured List (left flexor mass strain). Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcements.
GarcÃa, 20, is considered the No. 2 prospect in Washington's Minor League system, according to both...
BALTIMORE - The Nationals' second base plans just took a dramatic turn in a direction they probably weren't expecting to go in August 2020.
After Starlin Castro broke his right wrist making a diving play during today's resumption of Sunday's suspended game, the club promoted top prospect Luis GarcÃa off their traveling taxi squad and put the 20-year-old in their starting lineup for tonight's regularly scheduled game against the Orioles.
Castro's injury came as he dove for Bryan...
BALTIMORE - The Nationals took the field late this afternoon at Camden Yards, the first team to take the field despite the fact this is not their home, and set about to correct what went wrong Sunday at Nationals Park, when a malfunctioning tarp forced the suspension of their game with the Orioles, who led 5-2 at the time.
When this resumed game finally ended today, they had done nothing to correct their mistakes from Sunday. If anything, they raised more questions in this 6-2 loss that...
Paul Fry was the first Orioles reliever to make the long walk from the dugout to the bullpen this afternoon, a strong hint that he'd pitch the bottom of the sixth inning in the suspended game at Camden Yards.
He warmed up as the "visiting" Orioles batted in the top half and padded their three-run lead on Bryan Holaday's two-out infield hit that scored Dwight Smith Jr., who drew a walk on Sunday.
Of course, it makes sense in 2020.
Kyle Finnegan let an inherited runner score, Fry and three...
BALTIMORE - The Nationals made another change to their bullpen prior to today's resumption of Sunday's suspended game against the Orioles, promoting right-hander Dakota Bacus and optioning right-hander Ryne Harper to their alternate training site in Fredericksburg.
But that doesn't necessarily mean Harper won't make an appearance at Camden Yards before the night is over.
Because clubs are allowed to add a 29th man to their active roster for the regularly scheduled nine-inning game coming...
The Washington Nationals selected the contract of right-handed pitcher Dakota Bacus and optioned right-handed pitcher Ryne Harper to the Alternate Training Site (Fredericksburg) on Friday. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement.
Bacus, 29, joins the active roster for the first time in his career, and will make his Major League debut with his first appearance. In eight Minor League seasons entering the 2020 campaign, Bacus went 42-25 with...
Right-hander Stephen Strasburg starts tonight's regularly scheduled game at Camden Yards against the Orioles left-hander Tommy Milone.
Manager Davey Martinez is still concerned about the nerve issue in Strasburg's hand, so the will monitor him closely throughout tonight's game.
"He says he is ready to go," Martinez said during a pregame Zoom video call. "We are going to send him out there, we will keep an eye on him. I think it's more of the ups for him as opposed to the pitch count. As...