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Relive "Nationals Classics": Some baseball to whet your appetite for the regular season

March 23, 2017, 10:15am

The regular season is so close, you can almost taste the Ben's Chili Bowl half smokes, popcorn and peanuts. It'll be April 3 before you know it. But before the Nationals host the Marlins on South Capitol Street next Monday, there are still a couple of exhibition games left - MASN broadcasts March 28 versus the Fish, then March 31 and April 1 against the Red Sox - and a smattering of "Nationals Classics" that will air in the week leading up to opening day. We've got a nice variety for you -...

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Setting MASNsports.com's guest blogging rotation for 2017

March 20, 2017, 5:11am

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Setting MASNsports.com's guest blogging rotation for 2017

One of the things that sets MASNsports.com apart from its competition is the myriad of voices on the site. It's one thing to have world-class daily Nationals coverage provided by Mark Zuckerman, Byron Kerr and the rest of the site's staff; but it's another to offer a platform for some other dedicated voices to share their diamond knowledge. Once again this season, MASNsports.com will feature the talents of several guest bloggers, writers whose work is familiar to those who pore over the...

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Relive "Nationals Classics": Sweet '16

March 17, 2017, 7:40am

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The second round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will wrap up today, meaning there will be only 16 teams remaining with national championship hopes. Here's hoping your bracket's not busted. With the Sweet 16 starting on Thursday, MASN is bringing you a couple of sweet Nationals games from 2016 this week. (Friendly reminder that we are also airing two live spring training games this week: Monday, March 20 at 1 p.m. against the Yankees and Thursday, March 23 at 1 p.m. against the...

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Relive "Nationals Classics": Historic Harper and walk-offs galore

March 09, 2017, 9:19am

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Hope you're enjoying our slate of Nationals spring training games so far. Be sure to tune in later today as the Nats host their roommates at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, the Astros, at 1 p.m. on MASN. New catcher Matt Wieters is scheduled to make his Nationals debut. After today's game, the next Nationals spring training broadcast on MASN isn't until Monday, March 20. So to hold you off until then, we've got a great nine-game schedule of "Nationals Classics" airing throughout the...

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Relive "Nationals Classics": Clinchmas 2014 and wild walk-offs

March 03, 2017, 7:05am

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Isn't it great to have live baseball on your television again? Yeah, agreed, it's the best. Just a reminder that you have two more Nationals spring training games airing live on MASN this week: Tuesday, March 7, against the Red Sox at 1 p.m., and Sunday, March 12, against the neighbor Astros also at 1 p.m. Sprinkled around these live games are a few more "Nationals Classics" airing on MASN to keep feeding your baseball needs. On this week's slate, a memorable clinching of the National...

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A baseball tradition falls victim to spate of online information

February 27, 2017, 11:31am

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A baseball tradition falls victim to spate of online information

My earliest baseball memories involve rushing home from elementary school in first grade in 1966 to see the Orioles shock the Dodgers in the World Series. I remember seeing an airborne Brooks Robinson leap toward catcher Andy Etchebarren and pitcher Dave McNally celebrating a most improbable sweep on a tiny black-and-white television full of snow and static. A print of the iconic moment hangs on the stairway wall in my home. Yes, old memories are great memories. Some baseball memories are...

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Relive "Nationals Classics": Openers and a Strasmas memory

February 23, 2017, 12:26pm

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We're only two days away from the inaugural Nationals game at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. The Nationals will host the Astros on MASN on Tuesday at 1 p.m., the first look at the new stadium for many in D.C., where springlike temperatures have only heightened the desire to see baseball again. But here at MASN, we have baseball all winter long, and this week's slate of "Nationals Classics" is perfect for satisfying your need for fastballs, strikeouts and, well, fastballs that become...

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Relive "National Classics": Wild endings leading into spring training games

February 15, 2017, 7:04am

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Relive "National Classics": Wild endings leading into spring training games

The full Nationals squad has reported to The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches and full workouts are underway. All is right in Natstown. Before you know it, we'll have real, live-action baseball games for you fans. To be specific, that comes to you next Tuesday, Feb. 28, when MASN will broadcast the first of seven Nats spring training games this season as the tennants of the new training facility in West Palm Beach go head-to-head. That also means this is the last full week of "Nationals...

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Relive "National Classics": Celebrate start of camp with heroic past efforts

February 09, 2017, 10:10am

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Relive "National Classics": Celebrate start of camp with heroic past efforts

With spring training starting in a few days, it's nearly time for the annual utterance of the four most glorious words in the English language: Pitchers and catchers report. This week's "Nationals Classics" on MASN offer a smattering of game-winning walk-offs, heroic homers and clutch deliveries. It's only a couple of weeks before actual Nationals baseball action begins on MASN, so let these games whet your baseball appetites. Monday, Feb. 13, 1 p.m. - Adam Dunn slugged 76 homers in his...

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Relive "Nationals Classics": Walking off into spring training

February 02, 2017, 9:50am

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It's so close you can almost feel the Florida sun. Spring training - when Nationals pitchers and catchers report to The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach - is nine days away. Meaning, by this time next week, you'll have baseball activities just a couple of sleeps away. Until then, MASN rolls out it's final non-baseball week of "Nationals Classics" to hold you off for these last couple of days of the offseason. This week is jam-packed with walk-off victories and sprinkled with...

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Kolko/Werth bobblehead gets nod in P-Nats fan vote

February 02, 2017, 9:14am

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Kolko/Werth bobblehead gets nod in P-Nats fan vote

Well, the people have spoken. The Single-A Potomac Nationals announced at their Hot Stove Banquet last weekend that the winner of the Loyal Hygiene Solutions Fans' Choice Bobblehead is the duo of MASN on-field reporter Dan Kolko and Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth. The winning entry was submitted by Chris Jackson. The dual bobblehead will be handed out to the first 1,250 fans through the turnstiles at Pfitzner Stadium in Woodbridge, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 26 before the P-Nats host the...

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Relive "Nationals Classics": Slugging your way into February

January 25, 2017, 5:14am

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Well, Nationals fans, we're almost ready to pass through one more hurdle between winter's cold and baseball warmth. By the end of this week, we can utter these words: Spring training starts this month. February never felt so good, did it? As we move closer to the four greatest words in the English language - pitchers and catchers report - you can warm yourself with this week's "Nationals Classics" on MASN. Think of this as your own personal pre-spring training training. Pretty soon,...

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

January 19, 2017, 8:00am

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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

January 12, 2017, 10:13am

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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

January 05, 2017, 8:51am

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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

January 04, 2017, 9:23am

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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

December 22, 2016, 8:41am

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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

December 22, 2016, 7:23am

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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

December 13, 2016, 12:22pm

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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

December 05, 2016, 5:17am

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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...