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Right-hander Max Scherzer began tonight's start needing 10 strikeouts to reach 300 for the season.
His previous high was 284 strikeouts in 2016.
He struck out one in the first, two in the second and caught JT Riddle looking in the third. After three innings, Scherzer is six away from 300.
In the bottom of the first, Anthony Rendon crushed a three-run homer off Marlins starter Jeff Brigham.
Rendon now has a 33-game on-base streak and an 11-game hitting streak. The home run is his 67th...
Bryce Harper's second-half resurgence earned the slugger his first Nationals Player of the Year honor.
Harper, who turned his season around after the All-Star break, was named the Nationals Player of the Year this afternoon. He'll be presented with his award along with Max Scherzer (the club's Pitcher of the Year) and Sean Doolittle (winner of the annual Good Guy Award) during a ceremony immediately before Wednesday afternoon's home finale against the Marlins.
It's the first time Harper...
Right-hander Kyle McGowin will start the final Nationals home game of the season Wednesday afternoon. It will be his fourth appearance with the Nationals, but more importantly, his first major league start.
McGowin made 23 minor league starts for the Nationals this season, going 8-6 with a 2.80 ERA. He has 152 strikeouts in 141 2/3 innings.
Tanner Roark was originally penciled in for the Wednesday afternoon home finale against the Marlins.
Nationals manager Davey Martinez said Roark is back in...
Registration is now underway for the ninth annual KidsPeace Trick-or-Trot 5K run and one-mile walk, which will be held at Camden Yards on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 8 a.m. KidsPeace, in partnership with the Orioles, O's manager Buck Showalter and his wife, Angela Showalter, invite you to run or walk to support kids in foster care.
Entrants can dress in their favorite Halloween costumer - or as their favorite Orioles player - and maneuver through a chip-timed course around the Baltimore Harbor,...
BOSTON - An examination on Hunter Harvey's right elbow Monday in Baltimore didn't reveal any structural damage, with his latest bout of discomfort related to tendinitis.
Harvey will remain shut down after his latest round of flat ground sessions in Sarasota were halted on Sept. 18. He's basically been prescribed rest.
The Orioles no longer are sending Harvey to the Arizona Fall League, where he was supposed to pitch for the Glendale Desert Dogs.
Harvey underwent an MRI on Aug. 22 that...
Max Scherzer's quest for 300 strikeouts continues tonight in what is expected to be his second-to-last start of the season. The Nationals ace is currently sitting at 290, so he's got a chance to get there tonight with a strong outing against the Marlins.
If he does it, Scherzer will become only the sixth pitcher to strike out 300 batters in a season since 1990. The others: Randy Johnson (six times), Curt Schilling (three times), Pedro Martinez (twice), Clayton Kershaw and Chris Sale. That's...
The Braves winning the National League East is bad news for the Nationals, good news with hope for the Orioles.
The Braves arrived a year or two early and won the NL East, a division race where the Nationals were the heavy favorite to win and make it to the World Series.
The Orioles are losing in triple digits, but they can take heart that two seasons ago, the Braves were on the bottom of rebuilding, struggling as the Orioles did this season.
Former Orioles outfielder Nick Markakis signed with...
The Washington Nationals announced the winners of the third-annual end-of-season awards as voted on by the local media. Outfielder Bryce Harper was voted 2018 Nationals Player of the Year, while right-handed pitcher Max Scherzer was named Pitcher of the Year. Left-handed pitcher Sean Doolittle was given the 'Good Guy' Award, given to a player who is exceptionally accommodating to the media and involved in the community.
The players will receive their awards in an on-field ceremony before...
BOSTON - The Orioles won't need a starting pitcher tonight.
The rotation shuffling and bullpen mining will carry over to Wednesday's split doubleheader at Fenway Park.
Rain and a forecast with no window conspired to force the postponement of tonight's game, which will be made up Wednesday at 1:05 p.m. The nightcap is set to begin at 7:10 p.m.
The Orioles will confirm their starters later today. Jimmy Yacabonis was supposed to start tonight and Wednesday's series finale - which also ends the...
BOSTON - The rain continues to fall at Fenway Park and the forecast remains ominous. However, there's been no word so far on a postponement and split doubleheader on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Orioles announced that they've signed right-handers Cristian Alvarado and Francisco Jiménez, left-hander Chris Lee, catchers Martin Cervenka and Daniel Fajardo, infielder Anderson Feliz, and first basemen Ryan Ripken and Wilson GarcÃa to minor league contracts for the 2019 season.
Cervenka and Lee...