The Nationals return home after a very successful 4-2 West Coast road trip against two contending teams. The competition doesn’t ease up on South Capitol Street, however, as they face another first-place squad in the Cubs. Craig Counsell’s club has the second-best record in the National League at 37-22, trailing only the Mets by a half-game. They a

During their recently completed road trip to Seattle and Arizona, the Nationals took 240 total plate appearances. Only five of them were taken by a full-time, right-handed batter: Riley Adams, who started one of the six games behind the plate in place of Keibert Ruiz. Every other plate appearance the entire week was taken by someone who either bats

SEATTLE - The mailbag is on the West Coast and three hours behind in being awesome. The last batch didn’t include a handful of questions that will get some play this morning, while we wait for the Orioles to begin their series against the Mariners at T-Mobile Park, which will always be Safeco Field to me. Same as Jacobs Field in Cleveland. I refuse

The Orioles have made the following roster moves: Reinstated OF Colton Cowser (left thumb fracture) from the 60-day Injured List.Designated UTL Cooper Hummel for assignment. The Orioles’ 40-man roster currently has 40 players.

PHOENIX – Informed late Saturday night that the Nationals had just completed their first winning month in nearly two years, only their second winning month in four years, Nathaniel Lowe was pleasantly surprised. “Oh? Sweet,” the veteran first baseman interjected. Lowe, of course, would have had no way of knowing such information. He wasn’t here whe

You don’t have to look far to find the local connections with new Orioles senior advisor John Mabry. He grew up a fan of the team, which happens when you’re raised in Cecil County and attend Bohemia Manor High School in Chesapeake City, played for the renown Johnny’s amateur baseball team and participated in the Crown All-Star Game at Memorial Stad

PHOENIX – A wildly successful road trip for the Nationals ended as it began: With a dud. They may have won four straight thanks to some unprecedented offensive fireworks in every game, but sandwiched around those wins were a pair of losses featuring very little in the way of offense, including today’s 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Diamondbacks. Le

The Orioles went to extremes today to prove that they can score without relying too much on home runs, that the small ball approach remains in their skill set. That station-to-station doesn’t always require movement. A two-run third inning that broke a scoreless tie featured a single, double, two more singles and a sacrifice fly. The exit velocitie

PHOENIX – At the end of a long Saturday night, at the end of a stretch of five straight late-night games on the West Coast, the last four of them Nationals victories, Davey Martinez was asked who had been available out of his bullpen to close out this one. “Um, you saw the availability,” the manager said with a laugh. “That’s what we had.” With Kyl

PHOENIX – We have come to the final day of a West Coast trip that has been both eventful and successful. The Nationals have gone 4-1 against the Mariners and Diamondbacks, and they’ve done with the most impressive offensive run in club history: Four straight games scoring at least nine runs, capped off by Saturday night’s historic 10-run top of the