Category Archives: Recap

When the Pittsburgh Pirates rolled into town, they were in 1st place in the NL Central and on a 5-game winning streak. The Nationals not only halted their streak but also pushed them out of 1st place while it is … Continue reading →

Bryce Harper set the table with a booming lead-off home run and finished a triple shy of hitting for the cycle in the Nats fourth win in a row to clinch this series against the previously first place Pittsburgh Pirates. … Continue reading →

Behind Max Scherzer‘s good night on the mound, the Nats turned 10 hits into 12 runs. That is hard to do but add 4 walks and 2 Pittsburgh errors and some Nationals clutch hits and you got an efficient scoring … Continue reading →

The Nationals move to 2-and-8 in one-run games behind a very nice effort from Tanner Roark who went 7-innings of 2-run baseball with a strong hold from Ryan Madson and Brandon Kintzler earned his first save for the Washington Nationals. … Continue reading →

Finally, the Nationals lock down a win and take advantage of the Diamondbacks bullpen after Robbie Ray was pulled in the 2nd inning with an oblique injury. Gio Gonzalez went 7.0 full innings of 1-run baseball on 114 pitches. Gio … Continue reading →

Sometimes you cannot believe the new ways this team finds to lose a game. Today it was some botched strategy, poor execution, and a rookie managerial mistake on a 10th inning pitching change. Worst than that, every bullpen arm was … Continue reading →

Goodbye San Francisco and goodbye to that 4-game losing streak. The Nats won today by a final score of 15-2.  Max Scherzer wins another as the Nationals stopper extraordinaire, and the Nats bats came alive starting with Andrew Stevenson, Trea Turner, … Continue reading →

How many times have we written the Washington Nationals had opportunities to blow a game open and failed? It happened again as both Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman stepped up to the plate at different points of the game with … Continue reading →