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The Washington Nationals got some good news and bad news today. The bad news is that the Nats best pitcher, Trevor Williams, was placed on the 15-day IL with a strained flexor tendon in his right forearm. He will be shutdown from throwing for two weeks and go through another MRI before he throws again. Josiah Gray has been out nearly two months with this same diagnosis. The good news is the both CJ Abrams and Jacob Young are in tonight’s lineup after dealing with their own bumps and bruises.
The Washington Nationals won yesterday in Cleveland and arrived at Dulles Airport just before 7:30 pm last night. What a difference in an early arrival after that debacle traveling out of Atlanta last week. The Nationals have the Mets in for a 3-game series before a 4-game series with the Braves at Nationals Park.
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Jacob Young and CJ Abrams are both dealing with injuries; Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
The Washington Nationals couldn’t catch a popup with two outs in the first inning. The Cleveland broadcasters thought that Eddie Rosario gave up on the ball while Kevin Frandsen of the Nats booth thought that shortstop Ildemaro Vargas should have caught the ball. Manager Dave Martinez in his postgame presser saw it like Frandsen. Replay showed Vargas calling for the ball then he stopped running after it. Instead of a 2-1 win, the Nats lost 3-2. Their 9th loss by one-run in 13-games. A sad reminder of what this season could have been.
Forget about the other mistakes as there were plenty on the base paths with two runners thrown out on awful mistakes that included another blunder by third base coach Ricky Gutierrez who gave his base runner the go sign and then the stop sign when it was too late. And the team suffered their 12th pick-off of the season. This time Jesse Winker was picked-off on a set play that should never work at the MLB level. The Guardians deked him by the first baseman jumping off of first base like he wasn’t holding him on. Winker froze and was thrown out trying to go back to the base standing up. How embarrassing.
The Guardians play aggressive mistake-free baseball. You could point to their outfielder slipping on the turf as a mistake — but that was like a freak accident. The Guardians won, and they are firmly in first place in their division. If you look at their roster, besides Jose Ramirez, they don’t look so great. They just find a way to score enough runs per game. We saw their best starting pitcher yesterday in Ben Lively. Their starting rotation has a higher ERA (4.15) than the Nats at 3.93. The Guardians are 11-6 in one-run games.
The Washington Nationals have Mitchell Parker back on the mound after normal rest, and having just thrown a career-high 100 pitches against the Braves. Parker faced the Dodgers for his MLB debut in mid-April when the Dodgers were the top scoring offense, and now he faces the American League’s top offense today in Cleveland.
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The Washington Nationals won a key series against the Braves, and now have this weekend series against the very hot Cleveland Guardians, a team in first place in the AL Central that was just voted the 5th best team in MLB power rankings. Only the Phillies and Dodgers have scored more runs than the Guardians this season. Tonight’s challenge: Patrick Corbin and his 6.12 ERA is on the mound with a back of the bullpen that has pitched a lot in the past two days.
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The Washington Nationals received a gem last night from starter MacKenzie Gore to deliver a victory to the Nats with the big offense coming from Lane Thomas who put the Nats in front to stay with a 3-run homer off of the Braves’ starter. With some add-on runs, closer, Kyle Finnegan, did not have to pitch the 9th inning. Gore had 10 Ks and no walks and just one earnie in last night’s game. On the season, the Nats are now a road win from being .500 as the visiting team.
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We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
We understand there have been frustrations and increased feedback, and we’re actively working to improve things. What we ask is simple: use the system and give it a fair shot. If you run into issues, please submit them through the support form so we can track and fix them properly. Repeated complaints without details don’t help us solve problems—we appreciate your patience as we continue refining the experience.
If you’d like a full side-by-side comparison of the platforms and the reasons behind this decision, please refer to the chart below. This change is being made with the long-term benefit of the entire community in mind.