Relive "Nationals Classics": Throwing back to earliest Nats moments

Relive "Nationals Classics": Throwing back to earliest Nats moments
It's been a long and slow offseason for the Nationals. The lack of any real significant news makes the wait for spring training seem that much longer. If you're not keeping track at home, we're 23 days away from pitchers and catchers reporting to West Palm Beach. But alas, just as the long offseason carries on, so does MASN's "Nationals Classics" series. The election of Ivan Rodriguez to the Hall of Fame puts the first National in baseball's honored fraternity, a significant milestone...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": History, extras, whiffs and walk-offs

Relive "Nationals Classics": History, extras, whiffs and walk-offs
That little break of warm weather we had last week - pushing 70 degrees in January? Awesome! - only makes baseball fans yearn more for pitchers and catchers to report. But the good news is that it's now less than a month before batterymates converge on The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches for Nationals spring training. In the interim, we've got another week's worth of "Nationals Classics" on MASN, games that feature some of the best performances in curly W history. This week, there's the...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Beating up on the Phillies and Marlins

Relive "Nationals Classics": Beating up on the Phillies and Marlins
We're inching closer and closer to the arrival of spring training! Can you believe that Nationals pitchers and catchers report to The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in 37 days, with position players arriving just three days later? While you countdown the days to baseball's return, MASN continues along with our "Nationals Classics" series this week with some memorable NL East victories over the Phillies and Marlins. This would be the week to tune in if you hold special animosity to the Nats'...
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Bobblehead featuring MASN's Kolko, Werth among P-Nats' Fans' Choice finalists

Bobblehead featuring MASN's Kolko, Werth among P-Nats' Fans' Choice finalists
The Single-A Potomac Nationals always put out one of the most impressive slates of giveaway items each baseball season, and we've got our eye on a possible 2017 bobblehead with a MASN connection. For a second consecutive season, the P-Nats are planning a bobblehead giveaway based on a fan vote, sponsored by Loyal Hygiene Solutions. Best of all, you don't even have to attend a game in Woodbridge, Va. (actually, the voting will be completed by the time the new season opens at Pfitzner Stadium)...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Some heroics to get you closer to spring training

Relive "Nationals Classics": Some heroics to get you closer to spring training
OK, let's face it: Once New Year's Day passes, the want for a new baseball season really sets in. You're ready to pitch snow, cold and frigid wind chills for warm thoughts of pitchers and catchers reporting to West Palm Beach, Fla., where the Nationals will hold their first spring training at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. Well, we're still about six weeks away from the day that hardcore baseball fans consider the starting point of a new season. In the interim, we've got some warm...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": The best of the best of 2016

Relive "Nationals Classics": The best of the best of 2016
Some people consider the week between Christmas and New Year's Day to be the best of the whole year. Some time off work surrounded by friends and family. Well, if that's the case, then for Nationals fans, it will be even better because we're bringing out the best of the best from the past year for 2016's last slate of "Nationals Classics." We're packing a whole lot of baseball in this year's final week. Grand slams? Check. Extra-inning walk-offs? Got 'em. Historic feats? Of...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Trio of no-hitters cap off memorable holiday week

Relive "Nationals Classics": Trio of no-hitters cap off memorable holiday week
This week's games on "Nationals Classics" have a little of everything for the discerning Nationals fans. The perfect pre-Christmas gift, you might say. You want marathons? We've got games stretching long into the night before late-inning heroics. You like history? How about a 10th straight victory that tied a franchise record. Comebacks, walk-offs, sterling individual efforts? They're all represented in some of the best Nationals action to air on MASN. But since it's the holiday season -...
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Nationals put media access for a day, lunch with Baker and coaches up for auction

Nationals put media access for a day, lunch with Baker and coaches up for auction
If I've heard it once, I've heard it 100 times ... "Wow, you have the coolest job ever. If you ever need an assistant, sign me up!" Well, you now have your chance. As part of the "Play Ball" charity auction during the Winter Meetings, fans have the opportunity to bid on a slew of interesting and unique items and experiences associated with Major League Baseball teams. The auction will benefit the renovation of an existing youth baseball and softball field in Little Ferry, N.J., the...
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MASN bringing spirit of giving to Nats Winterfest

MASN bringing spirit of giving to Nats Winterfest
There's no place like Nats Winterfest for the holidays! MASN is in the holiday spirit again this season. And you know what that means ... PRESENTS! We're giving you a ton of chances to win exclusive MASN Nationals prizes at our booth at Nats Winterfest, which will be held Dec. 10-11 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. In addition to signed jerseys, bats and baseballs from some of your favorite players, we're also bringing in new prizes for you to win! Swing by the MASN booth to...
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CareFirst Fan Challenge winner to face off against Scherzer at Nats Winterfest

CareFirst Fan Challenge winner to face off against Scherzer at Nats Winterfest
Back in the dog days of summer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield asked fans to challenge Nationals ace Max Scherzer to anything! Submissions for #IChallengeMax began pouring in to our Twitter account, ranging from cooking competitions to karaoke. And when it was all said and done, Scherzer selected to battle Nats fan Trey in a classic tailgate game ... cornhole! @masnNationals #IChallengeMax to a game of cornhole on my @Bharper3407 board. @Max_Scherzer pic.twitter.com/HA3M5AgZVZ -- Trey...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Harper's three-homer night

Relive "Nationals Classics": Harper's three-homer night
There's only one "Nationals Classic" on the MASN docket this week, so be sure to tune un at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11 (or set your DVR if you're partaking of the second day of Nationals Winterfest at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center). This week's offering is a game from May 6, 2015, when Bryce Harper sent a midweek Nationals Park crowd of 31,417 into a frenzy with a power display against Marlins right-hander Tom Koehler. Harper homered three times that night - in his first three...
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Bobblehead epiphany leads to busy home-based business for Nats fan

Bobblehead epiphany leads to busy home-based business for Nats fan
Brad Wheedleton's epiphany came at Nationals Park on Sept. 27, 2014, when he received the last of the seven Nationals bobblehead giveaways that season, a Tyler Clippard nodder honoring the beloved and bespectacled reliever. "I'd started collecting and I had the whole series," remembers Wheedleton. "I got the last one and I said to myself, 'My collection needs a place to go.' They were piling up on the desk or in a corner collecting dust. I said to myself, 'I'm going to go home and...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Wild finishes and pitching gems

Relive "Nationals Classics": Wild finishes and pitching gems
How's everyone feeling post-Thanksgiving? Were you able to walk off some of those extra pounds gained on Thursday? Well if you weren't able to, I've got some good news for you baseball fans: We are officially one week away from the Winter Meetings at National Harbor! MASN is leading you up to baseball's big offseason event in our own backyard with a jam-packed week of Nationals walk-offs and pitching gems. Take a look at this week's "Nationals Classics" schedule on MASN: Monday, Nov. 28,...
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Bryce Harper presents award at American Music Awards

Bryce Harper presents award at American Music Awards
Bryce Harper is familiar with award shows. The Nationals all-star outfielder has been named National Leauge Rookie of the Year and MVP, among other awards he's won in his young career. But Sunday night, Harper took on a different role at an award show: presenter. At the 44th annual American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Harper joined recording artist Teyanna Taylor in presenting the New Artist of the Year award to Zayn Malik. Apparently, Harper also put his baseball skills to work at the award...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Grand slams and 16-inning marathon

Relive "Nationals Classics": Grand slams and 16-inning marathon
Happy Thanksgiving! As you're enjoying spending time with friends and family, devouring a big bird on Turkey Day and hopefully watching the Redskins beat up on the Cowboys, MASN is giving Nationals fans a couple of baseball reasons to be thankful this year. Check out this holiday week's "Nationals Classics" schedule filled with grand slams and a Sunday special marathon victory: Monday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. - Bryce Harper had reached some major accomplishments in his career before the start of...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Extra-inning herorics and Scherzer's first no-no

Relive "Nationals Classics": Extra-inning herorics and Scherzer's first no-no
We're a little over a week away from Thanksgiving, so here are a couple of reminders that baseball is still in your life: * The GM meetings just wrapped up this past week in Scottsdale, Ariz.* The Winter Meetings are three weeks away in National Harbor, Md.* Nationals Winterfest is about a month away at the Washington Convention Center So there is still plenty of baseball to consume this offseason. And of course, MASN's "Nationals Classics" series continues this week to give you your...
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The Ballpark at the Palm Beaches on target for first game on Feb. 28

The Ballpark at the Palm Beaches on target for first game on Feb. 28
Representatives from the Nationals and Astros met this week with Palm Beach County commissioners and told them that the teams' new spring training facility in West Palm Beach, The Ballpark at the Palm Beaches, is expected to open as scheduled on Feb. 28. The Palm Beach Post reported that construction crews are racing to complete the new $148.5 million complex in time for the first scheduled Grapefruit League game. Neither the Nationals nor Astros have released their spring training schedules,...
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An early look at where the Nationals rank heading into 2017

An early look at where the Nationals rank heading into 2017
Though the baseball offseason is only two days old, it's a perfect time to start thinking ahead to the 2017 campaign. ESPN.com is doing just that, and yesterday released its first power rankings for the 2017 season. The Nationals are ranked third, behind the World Series champion Cubs and the American League East champion Red Sox. Sweet Spot blogger David Schoenfield acknowledges that the Nats have some questions to answer - right-hander Stephen Strasburg's flexor mass injury, first baseman...
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Relive "Nationals Classics": Walk-offs, mound gems and Strasmas

Relive "Nationals Classics": Walk-offs, mound gems and Strasmas
The World Series is over and the baseball offseason is upon us. Which means a few of you are having trouble coping without your daily fix of serious jammage, "See you later!" home run calls and "There goes the no-hitter" jocularity. And while spring training is still a little more than three months away, we've got a way to combat those winter blues. Who cares if it gets dark an hour earlier? There are still "Nationals Classics" on MASN to keep you company through the long, winter...
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MASNsports.com's Mark Zuckerman featured on "Today" show

MASNsports.com's Mark Zuckerman featured on "Today" show
We here at MASNsports.com are very fortunate to have Mark Zuckerman as our Nationals beat writer. Not only does he bring years of experience covering the team, but he is also a triple-threat reporter (writing, television and radio) that not many outlets have the opportunity to work with. Another fun aspect Mark brings to the table is he dealings with users on Twitter who mistake him for Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. How many times have you seen Mark ZuckerMAN give a baseball response to...
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