The Nationals are preparing for World Series Game 4 tonight and an unfamiliar foe in 24-year-old José Urquidy. The right-hander is making his first start since Sept. 27 in Los Angeles against the Angels. Urquidy threw 2 2/3 innings in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series, allowing one run on three hits with one walk and five strikeouts. He has a 2.08 ERA in two games this postseason. Nationals manager Davey Martinez said facing an opponent and their bullpen is a unique challenge...

Kurt Suzuki will remain on the Nationals' active roster for Game 4 of the World Series after undergoing an MRI of his right hip that convinced club officials the veteran catcher would be available tonight if something happened to teammate Yan Gomes. Suzuki had to depart Game 3 on Friday night in the bottom of the sixth, a few minutes after he blocked a pitch and injured his right hip flexor. The 36-year-old was uncertain after the game if he'd be well enough to return for tonight's game, but...

Perhaps with the hubbub of Friday night's festivities behind them, everything at Nationals Park tonight will feel a little more normal for the Nationals. Or at least as normal as a World Series game can feel. Point is, the outcome of tonight's game is really important for both teams. At the end of the night, the Nationals are either going to be up three games to one or the Astros are going to have tied the series and recaptured home field advantage. On paper, the Nats would seem to have...

The Nationals dropped their first playoff game in their last nine - and first at home since Oct. 6 - in Friday night's 4-1 setback to the American League champion Astros in Game 3 of the World Series. Tonight they will hand the ball to Patrick Corbin, who finished off the Cardinals 7-4 on Oct. 15 and has already recorded three outs in Game 1 of this series. Corbin said the 21 pitches he threw in Game 1 amounted to an in-game bullpen session and believes he is well-rested for this next...

Frustrating as Friday night's 4-1 loss was, the Nationals perhaps could take some solace knowing this: While the Astros had to burn up five relievers, including three of their top guys, the Nats used only three low-leverage bullpen arms. And that could prove significant tonight in Game 4 of the World Series, especially when considering the two teams' pitching plans. The Nationals will start Patrick Corbin, who threw one inning of relief in Game 1 but is rested enough to top the 100-pitch...

After losing the first two games at home, the Astros have made this World Series competitive, thanks to a pitching staff that snuffed out a steady stream of potential Nationals rallies. The Astros avoided an almost insurmountable situation by beating the Nationals 4-1 on Friday night in Game 3 of the World Series, the first World Series game in D.C. since 1933, the year the American League Senators lost the title to the New York Giants. The Nationals lead the best-of-seven series two games to...

Aníbal Sánchez was hit fairly consistently throughout the night, as the Astros scored four runs off the Nationals right-hander to build their lead in Game 3 of the World Series. The veteran ended up allowing 10 hits as Houston won 4-1 over the Nationals. Michael Brantley had a pair of run-scoring singles, Josh Reddick added an RBI hit and Robinson Chirinos smacked a solo homer off the netting of the left field foul pole as Houston went up 4-1 in the sixth. The Astros had three extra-base...

The status of Kurt Suzuki is unknown heading into World Series Game 4 on Saturday night after the Nationals catcher exited Game 3 with what manager Davey Martinez said was a right hip flexor issue. "He felt something when he went to block that ball in his hip flexor," Martinez said. "We don't know the severity of it yet. We'll know more tomorrow. But it is his right hip flexor. "His strength was good, but we'll see. I don't know if he's going to get an MRI, I haven't talked to Paul...

As the Orioles look to put together a starting rotation for 2020, one question will be how soon will some of their homegrown prospects get their chance at the starting five. When will some of the up and coming pitching prospects - homegrown or not - get their shot? Based on how executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias and his staff ran the minors and promoted players in 2019, it is probably likely that they won't often have prospects skip levels or more as fast through the system as...

They came looking for a party, fully expecting the first World Series game played in the District of Columbia in 86 years to produce the same kind of thrills that have become commonplace here all month long, only ratcheted up to an entirely new level that would leave the Nationals on the precipice of a championship. What the overflow gathering at Nationals Park tonight got instead was 30 minutes of pregame nostalgia and anticipatory hype, then four hours of frustration as the home team...