by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
The Washington Nationals came off of their best win of the season on Sunday, and they also had a bonus day-off today. They market this series between the Nats and their neighbors just to the north, the Baltimore Orioles, as the Battle Of The Beltways, but is it? The Orioles always seem to play these games as if they have the urgency of a playoff game, while the Nats just approach it as another regular season game.
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Yadiel Hernandez has been released by the Nationals 10 games into the Triple-A season, per the team’s transaction log.
Hernandez, 35, posted a .205 batting average (8-for-39) and a 16 wRC+, striking out at a clip of 37.5 percent. It ends a seven-year stint for Hernandez with the Nats’ organization.
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It’s time for the Beltway series to get underway as the Baltimore Orioles prepare to play the Washington Nationals. Led by manager Brandon Hyde, the O’s are off to a decent start in 2023, posting a 9-7 record. The Orioles are on pace to win 87 games this season, and the Nats are on a 50 win pace. Lots of things can and will change in this season as we have barely left the starting gate in a marathon of a season.
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Another week, another Minors Monday. Nationals wrap up Week 2 of the minor leagues with several players on rehab assignments in the lower levels while Darren Baker is the MVP of this week.
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The Nationals avoided the sweep Sunday and grabbed their fifth win of the season. This salvage win over the Guardians, had Jeimer Candelario leading the way offensively while Stone Garrett was back in the lineup and made a case to stay in it. This was a come-from-behind win with late inning drama.
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Today is another of those early April games in a season at just the sixteenth game mark. However, in some ways, the rest of the season seems to be on a path of projectability based on what we have seen. The season will be at the 10 percent completed mark of the season when this one is done. You can play math games and use a 10x multiplier for stats and do some interpolating or extrapolating for an entire season. A loss today and the Washington Nationals are on a 40-120 pace. A win today and the Nats are on a 50-110 pace. The little things matter, and yet it feels like there is zero urgency to be proactive with in-game strategy and especially with the starting pitchers.
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Stone Garrett has been glued to the bench for the past five games despite leading the team in most statistics through just three games and 14 plate appearances. He has not even been used in a pinch-hitting situation.
Why is this? Well, Dave Martinez was asked ahead of Saturday’s 6-4 loss to the Guardians why Garrett hasn’t been seen in the lineup. Martinez explained it was a mixture of both Alex Call and Lane Thomas‘ strong outings and matchups.
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The Nationals have continued to drop tight and winnable games, and the same occurred Saturday, where the Nats built up a lead early but couldn’t hang on.
Washington did get on the board in a hurry though, as in the first inning they took a 3-0 lead. Alex Call led off the game by reaching base on a Jose Ramirez throwing error which was followed up by a Dominic Smith single, and the scoring opened from there: Joey Meneses, Jeimer Candelario (double), and Keibert Ruiz all came through with RBI hits.
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In the manufacturing world, they call it zero-defect output, and in baseball it is called mistake-free baseball. Most errors don’t show up in the boxscore, and only a video or photo will jog your memory of the mishap. Yesterday, there were too many mistakes by the Washington Nationals and in a few months the only one we will remember when we go to the boxscore is Carl Edwards Jr.‘s fielding E-1 and the unearned run because of it. That run became the winning run in another Nats’ loss by the smallest margin you can have of just one run. From a 3-0 Nats’ lead to a final four innings of mistakes on defense, bullpen pitching, baserunning, and poor situational hitting is becoming a theme. The calls to fire manager Dave Martinez get louder with each loss just like they did in 2022 and 2021 and even May of 2019. The team’s best played game of the season was managed by bench coach Tim Bogar while Martinez was sick. Trust me, I’m not calling for Martinez to be fired — but there certainly could be a day soon that we hear that his contract is not extended.
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It has been 75 years since Jackie Robinson‘s debut and changing baseball forever, and all of baseball celebrates that today as we all wear No. 42. You can see the changes finally in baseball or at least you can in D.C. baseball, and the way the team has added people of color to their front office and coaching staffs. The Lerner family committed themselves to the best amateur youth baseball academy in baseball as well as youth fields built in Washington, D.C. by the team and the community. Just look at the current Washington Nationals team makeup and their stars on the rise who are African American.
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