Category Archives: Games

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Game #6 is at George Steinbrenner Field in Tampa if Mother Nature cooperates!

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Sometimes you feel like you drew the short straw when you get picked to play in a road game for Spring Training in a city hours away.  That is the case today as the Washington Nationals take a trek across … Continue reading →

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Game #5 The Nats head up the road to Jupiter; Anibal Sanchez is on the mound!

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The last time we saw Anibal Sanchez on a mound against the Cardinals it was on the road and he was twirling a no-hitter in the 8th inning. That game just happened to be the most important start of Sanchez’s … Continue reading →

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Game #4 The Nats are home against the Mets; A lesson on making the team from the longest of odds!

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

If you followed Sunday’s split-squad games which were being played simultaneously at FITTEAM and in Jupiter, you hopefully were able to follow the radio call of Charlie Slowes as the Nationals had a walk-off single by DC’s own Brandon Snyder … Continue reading →

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Games #2 and #3 in split-squad action

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

If today’s weather holds up, it is Austin Voth at the FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, and Erick Fedde up the road in Jupiter. It is Voth who gets most of the starters today and manager Dave Martinez in … Continue reading →

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We have Game #1 of Spring Training between the World Champion Nats and the team they faced in the World Series!

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

It has been 116 days since we last saw our Washington Nationals playing in a baseball game. While these Spring Training games do not count for much, there is still some fun in it all. As expected, Max Scherzer will start the … Continue reading →

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Can’t steal these signs! Nats have World Series signs in their Spring Training home!

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

As the flatbeds rolled through Lot B to the player’s entrance of their parking lot at the FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in the mid-morning, the arriving Washington Nationals players who were on a later schedule got to see … Continue reading →

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How do these 2020 #Nats stack up against the competition?

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

How do the 2020 Washington Nationals stack up with the competition? As Fangraphs tinkers with the numbers each day, the Nationals are at a +43.4 team WAR, and that is 8th best in the Majors and 3rd in the National … Continue reading →

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Mike Rizzo is in another walk year on his current contract, is he worried?

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Embed from Getty Images of Mike Rizzo No, Mike Rizzo is not worried at all about his future with the Washington Nationals. During his tenure, he has negotiated six different contracts for himself averaging nearly 2.5 years per deal. He has … Continue reading →

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The miracle run is complete! The Washington Nationals are World Series champs!

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

If you believe in crazy proclamations, the departing free agent stood in Clearwater Florida during Spring Training and talked about bringing a title back to D.C., and it has now happened. The miracle run is now complete. The Nationals went … Continue reading →

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Game #7 World Series marks the first Game 7 in Nats history!

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Before yesterday, the Nationals have never played more than five games in a series, and now this team goes to a winner-take-all Game 7 in the World Series. The Nationals enter their fifth elimination game of this postseason, and the … Continue reading →

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