Right-hander Max Scherzer was in the press room as the Nationals announced Stephen Strasburg's new seven-year, $175 million deal to remain with the club. "When I was signed here, there were a few other players that were at my signing as well and I always remember that," Scherzer said. "It's important that you show some camaraderie and you show you support your teammates. "When I heard the news last night that he had signed, I took it upon myself the time to make sure that I was there for...

Oh yeah, there's a game tonight. It's been an eventful day, what with the Stephen Strasburg contract extension and the aftermath of Bryce Harper's ejection last night. But the Nationals and Tigers will be back at it this evening for the second of their three-game interleague series. Joe Ross gets the ball for the Nats, coming off a strong outing in Chicago against a very tough Cubs lineup that still resulted in a loss. He'll be facing another strong lineup tonight that features the likes...

MINNEAPOLIS - The Orioles are going with the same lineup tonight as the one intended for last night before the series opener against the Twins was postponed due to inclement weather. Joey Rickard remains in left field and Mark Trumbo is in right. Manny Machado is at shortstop and Ryan Flaherty is starting at third base. For the Orioles Joey Rickard LF Manny Machado SS Adam Jones CF Chris Davis 1B Mark Trumbo RF Matt Wieters C Pedro Alvarez DH Jonathan Schoop 2B Ryan Flaherty 3B Kevin Gausman RHP

The Nationals officially announced their seven-year contract extension with Stephen Strasburg and plan to hold a 2:15 p.m. news conference to discuss their new deal with the right-hander. Strasburg and the club came to terms on the contract, which a source familiar with the deal confirmed is worth $175 million, last night. The 27-year-old then started the Nats' interleague series opener against the Tigers, giving up four runs over seven innings, striking out 11 while walking three batters. The...

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that the Nationals' Stephen Strasburg wanted to become a free agent after the season and pitch on the West Coast where he'd be closer to home in San Diego. Strasburg, 27, never talked about his future with reporters, but it's reasonable that a West Coast guy would give up the rush-rush pace of the East Coast for the sunshine of Southern California. Strasburg, though, has signed a seven-year, $175 million contract to stay with the Nationals at least...

The Washington Nationals agreed to a seven-year contract extension with right-handed pitcher Stephen Strasburg on Tuesday. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement. One of the premier starting pitchers in the Major Leagues, Strasburg will remain under contract with the only professional organization he has ever known through the 2023 season. The No. 1 overall selection in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, Strasburg has a career 59-37...

The 2016 Nationals bench is winning games singlehandedly by singular swings of the bat. The most memorable singular swing by a bench player is always the one freshest in your mind, which has to be last night's walk-off pinch-hit home run from Clint Robinson. Then you start to think about some of the others, like Chris Heisey in extra innings with the 16th-inning walk-off HR on April 24 which was the first walk-off in Heisey's career. Now rewind back further to the second game of the season...

Heading into the 2016 season, most projection systems didn't think very highly of the Orioles' pitching staff. Baseball Prospectus predicted they would allow 4.76 runs per game, which would rank last in the major leagues. FanGraphs had them at 4.71 runs allowed per game, better than only the Colorado Rockies. Many pundits echoed that pessimism: Sports Illustrated's Jay Jaffe wrote that "even in a division that's decidedly short on top-shelf starting pitching, the Orioles' rotation scares...

What is better than hitting you first-ever walk-off homer in a Major League game? Thinking all you did was hit the go-ahead homer. Pinch-hitter Clint Robinson, who had struggled a bit to start the season to find his groove, slammed a Mark Lowe offering that bounced off the top of the right field wall Monday night, completing the Nationals' 5-4 come-from-behind winner over the Tigers. "Rounding third and I saw everybody crowded around home plate. Not kidding," Robinson said. So, wait a...

The Orioles' Mark Trumbo just might be the thinking man's hitter. Listen to him in interviews and it's clear he has a real plan when he gets in the batter's box. Talented pitchers don't always allow him to execute it, but he is doing a lot more than just hacking up there. Off to a solid start this year with his new team, Trumbo has become a student of exit velocity - that is the speed with which the ball comes off the bat. All hitters strive to hit the ball hard and now, through Statcast...