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During those dark days of late May, when the Nationals owned the second-worst record in the National League and calls for change were growing from outside the organization, Mark Lerner did exactly what the clubhouse did. He stuck with his guys, especially manager Davey Martinez.
"It never crossed my mind to dismiss Davey, no matter all the pressure that was put on us," Lerner, the Nationals' managing principal owner, said this evening before Game 4 of the National League Championship Series....
Nationals left-hander Patrick Corbin defeated the Cardinals on Sept. 17 at Busch Stadium by throwing six strong innings and allowing only two unearned runs. He struck out 11 and walked four in a 6-2 Nationals victory. The former DIamondback gets his second start of the postseason tonight in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.
"Yeah, we just played them a month or so ago," Corbin said. "I'll just try to go over film and go over what I did do well and what I didn't do well. At...
The Nationals have played 2,456 games during their 15 years of existence. Many of those games carried little to no meaning. A decent number of them were significant but not historic. Twenty-eight of them have come in the postseason. None have featured the stakes that are on the table tonight.
For the first time in their history, the Nats are playing for a pennant. One more win over the Cardinals and they'll win the National League Championship Series and reach the World Series. And if they do...
Having starters Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer and Patrick Corbin pitch postseason bullpen innings isn't new to Washington baseball. In fact, the strategy is decades old.
In 1924, the only season Washington has won the World Series, the Senators' future Hall of Famer, starter Walter "Big Train'' Johnson, pitched four shutout innings in a 4-3 Game 7 victory against the New York Giants at Griffith Stadium, currently the site of Howard University Hospital.
The Senators, then in the American...
Everybody keeps talking about the Nationals' No. 3 and No. 4 hitters as the pair that is the most difficult to stop in the lineup.
It's true. Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto have come up with game-changing hits in this postseason.
But the Nats' No. 5 and No. 6 hitters are not too shabby, either.
Howie Kendrick and Ryan Zimmerman combined to go 5-for-8 (.625) with four doubles, two runs and five RBIs in the Nats' 8-1 win over the Cardinals in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series...
Yes, Patrick Corbin signed with the Nationals last winter because they offered him more years and more dollars than any of the other contenders for the free agent's services. But he also came to Washington because of what he knew he could be a part of: A rotation that would rival any other in baseball, and a team that expected to play in October.
All of that stood out to Corbin, who after coming through the Angels' farm system and then pitching six years in the majors for a Diamondbacks team...
Stephen Strasburg is in a zone at just the right time for the Nationals.
He again demonstrated his elite ability with seven strong innings Monday night, striking out 12 and allowing just one unearned run in an 8-1 victory over the Cardinals in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series.
The Nats lead the series three games to none and can clinch the first trip to the World Series in franchise history on Tuesday night in Game 4.
What zone is Strasburg in? Try 3-0 with a 1.64 ERA in four...
The Cardinals came to D.C. taking aim at becoming the second National League team to recover from a 0-2 deficit in a best-of-seven series and make the World Series.
Instead, they dug themselves an even deeper hole.
The Nationals, a win away from bringing the World Series to Washington for the first time since 1933, beat the Cardinals 8-1 in Game 3 on Monday night to take a three games to none lead in the NL Championship Series at wild and crazy Nationals Park.
The 2004 Red Sox are the only team...
Surely there were some among the throng of 43,675 on South Capitol Street tonight who saw the home team holding a 6-0 lead over the visiting Cardinals in a postseason game and felt a sudden shiver go down their spines.
Those folks must still be shell-shocked by the events of Oct. 12, 2012, a day that lives in infamy around these parts because of what happened after the home team took a 6-0 lead on the Cardinals in Game 5 of the National League Division Series. That night has haunted this...
Captain Obvious checked in to remind me that the Orioles will need to pitch better in 2020. He said that O's fans have seen 223 losses and a lot of poor pitching over the last two years.
The Orioles were last in the American League in ERA, bullpen ERA, homers allowed, first-strike percentage, homers-per-fly-ball ratio and rotation OPS in 2019, to point out a few categories.
If you want a stat that is hard to explain, for the second year in a row, the Orioles allowed a lower hard-contact...