Quality should be Job 1

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

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Game #39 Finale in Boston; Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears
Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats

The Washington Nationals needed a great start from Jake Irvin and got more than that in a 7.0 inning two-run outing. Unfortunately, the Nats bats went mostly quiet, and Irvin exited in a 2-2 tie game. While both teams made some mistakes, the one with the fewest won this game.

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Game #38 Second chances for the Nats

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears
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The Washington Nationals might have shocked everyone but themselves last night as manager Dave Martinez pushed almost all the right buttons to win a game that greatly favored the Red Sox on paper. As we wrote in the pregame, Martinez needed “an ace start from Patrick Corbin“ as the Nats were facing the Red Sox best pitcher in righty Tanner Houck. Corbin’s results were good enough, and he earned his first win going 5.0 innings of 1-run ball. Martinez went to the bullpen with a 3-1 lead, and the Nats won 5-1 to push the team back to a game over .500. Today, the Nats get a second chance to go to two games over .500 which they last saw on June 30 of 2021.

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Game #37 Nats are in Boston

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears
Fenway Park by Sol Tucker for TalkNats

The Washington Nationals arrived in Boston and got to Fenway Park early to get the behind-the-scenes tour of the insides of the Green Monster and other hidden parts of Fenway. Tonight, the Nats have to get a win to stay at or above the .500 mark.

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Fact: The rebuild isn’t even 3 years old!

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

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The Nats have beaten baseball’s best; Lessons to be learned

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

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Game #36 Nationals have business at home

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears
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The Washington Nationals had a successful Cinco de Mayo and Siete de Mayo, and they have a successful Ocho de Mayo? This quick two-game series with the Orioles wraps up tonight at Nats Park, and then the Nationals have a day-off tomorrow before a weekend series in Boston.

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“Your job as a pitcher is to obfuscate” — Trevor Williams

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

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Game #35 Nats and O’s have a marketing collab

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears
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The Washington Nationals had a successful Cinco de Mayo, and now on Siete de Mayo is the first sign of a Nationals and Orioles truce. We had hoped that the first sign of a truce would be the splitting of the MASN TV network. But instead of that being announced, an olive branch was extended in a different form. This was a cherry blossom branch that was extended in a sign of peace between new Orioles’ owner, David Rubenstein, and Nats’ principal owner, Mark Lerner. The teams are doing a Washington x Baltimore City Connect collab for tonight’s game.

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If the season ended today, the Washington Nationals would be a playoff team!

Posted on May 5, 2024 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears
There is a lot of fight in this team; Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats

There are only six teams in the National League with a record of .500 or better. All of those teams would be in the playoffs today if the season was over. The Washington Nationals would be one of those playoff teams. They would be the third and final Wild Card team. It seems inconceivable yet this is factual.

You could say a 17-17 record means nothing with 79.01 percent of the season to play — or you could smile and think — that maybe the Nats could make a promotion of top prospect James Wood and some other upgrades — then roll the dice to see if they can be the 2024 version of last year’s Reds, Marlins or the Diamondbacks.

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