by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
The Washington Nationals return to their home field after an impressive 5-2 road trip. The team has the San Francisco Giants in town for a weekend series, and the Nats are boasting the great weather.
There is continued roster churn today as Richard Lovelady was acquired in a trade with the Mets for cash considerations. To make room for Lovelady, the team will send last night’s closer, Orlando Ribalta, to Rochester Triple-A.
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Until the Washington Nationals can fix their starting rotation to be a top-half of the league group, don’t expect the Nats to be true contenders. While the team is excelling on offense at the top of the league, the pitching is near the bottom of baseball. Just like yesterday, winning games at 8-7 is not a sustainable model. The team should be scoring eight runs and holding their opponents to four runs. That is the model for a contending team.
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The Washington Nationals won an absolute thriller on the road to split the series with the Pittsburgh Pirates. In the end, the team that made the most mistakes lost — and that was the Pirates. Foster Griffin had another gem going but hit the wall in the 5th inning and departed in the 6th inning in a 4-4 tie. But the Nats never gave up, and the leads went back and forth until the Nats prevailed in extra innings with Orlando Ribalta earning his first career save.
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The Washington Nationals came out flat yesterday on offense. Managing only three hits, two walks, and two HBPs, CJ Abrams was 4/7ths of the offense yesterday. He is now the third most valuable position player in baseball per FanGraphs at a +1.2 WAR. The only thing holding him back is his defense. In the first inning, he had a brain freeze with two outs and hesitated to get the force and second base — and that hesitation allow the baserunner to beat his throw to first base — scoring the runner from third base. A huge run in a final score of 2-0.
But let’s be real here, with Jacob Young getting a day-off, and James Wood narrowly missing two home runs, who else is stepping up? Joey Wiemer is batting .154 since March 31, the catchers are batting below their weight, Brady House has 0-fers in 8-of-17 games which is a real consistency issue, and Daylen Lile is batting .196 after April 1. And don’t forget about Nasim Nunez who thinks he’s a home run hitter. He’s batting .208 with just one extra-base hit, a double.
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The opener strategy that the Nationals executed yesterday got put into use against them tonight, and it worked beautifully for the Pirates. Carmen Mlodzinski threw six scoreless innings sandwiched between good innings from Mason Montgomery, Gregory Soto, and Dennis Santana. To the Nats’ credit, their pitching was quality tonight as well, with Jake Irvin throwing a pretty similar game to the one he threw last Friday night in Milwaukee, and Brad Lord bringing it home with three scoreless frames. Ultimately, the two runs that crossed the plate for Pittsburgh in the first inning would be all they needed, shutting the Nats out and limiting the Nationals to just three hits.
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The Washington Nationals are back at it tonight in Pittsburgh for their third game of this four game series that wraps up with an afternoon game tomorrow. The Nats have Jake Irvin on the mound tonight, and Pittsburgh is either going with an opener or a bullpen game.
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When we talk about how to respond to getting trounced in a game, that’s not something the Washington Nationals have done well in recent years. Tonight though, these 2026 Nats showed another sign of having turned the corner as compared to a team from the previous regime. These 2026 Nats came out a night after losing by 11 runs, and won a hard-fought game against a stout first place Pirates team.
This was a game in which the new and improved Nationals used several different pitchers in very interesting combinations, and it worked just well — and enough to get the Nats through nine innings for a 1-run win.
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The Washington Nationals are back at it tonight in Pittsburgh. Let’s see if Miles Mikolas can pitch a game and keep his team competitive for this one. So far, he hasn’t been able to do that in his first three appearances. The Nats officially called-up Mitchell Parker who could go long for the Nats if needed. This could be a tandem starter situation like Don Henderson has discussed. The Nats will use PJ Poulin as an opener and go to Mikolas and then possibly to Parker.
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