by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
Since the Nats were 19-31 they have gone 6-3 for some of their best baseball of the season. Where was this in August? Oh well, it is nice to see the effort, and Anibal Sanchez pitched a solid game en route to a 5-3 win and a sweep of this doubleheader from the Mets. The Nats beat two former Cy Youngs in this doubleheader sweep beating both Jacob deGrom and Rick Porcello. Continue reading
Max earned his 175th career win in Game 1; Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
The birthday boy, Dave Martinez, got a win he really wanted and he also got to see Max Scherzer record that win. Max finished his 2020 season with a winning record, and he won the 175th of his career. Continue reading
Photo courtesy of Kelly Collis for TalkNats
Smile Davey, it’s your birthday! He is 56 years young today, and was rewarded with a multi-year contract, exact terms undisclosed. Continue reading
Davey and Mike are the first ones off the escalator: Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
The big news of the day isn’t the rain in Washington D.C., but something more positive which is manager Dave Martinez is getting a new 3-year deal that will keep him under contract through at least the 2023 season and inline with the same contractual point in time that general manager Mike Rizzo currently has with the team. What that means is the two biggest priorities from the past month is done with Rizzo and Davey tied up.
That moves our morning “Priority List” to a much more succinct list of team off-season priorities. The Nats off-season starts officially after their game goes final on Sunday on September 27th. Continue reading
Soto pitching BP in Spring Training; Photo by Craig Nedrow for TalkNats
The Washington Nationals have clear priorities for next year. We will take you through the Top-10. Continue reading
Photo by Andrew Lang for TalkNats
When manager Dave Martinez talked about the future, he spoke optimistically about the All-Star and MVP candidates on his roster next year. He also spoke about wanting to manage long-term for this Washington Nationals team. Continue reading
Photo by Laura Peebles for TalkNats
You probably heard that the Washington Nationals were officially eliminated from the postseason late last night. Not a shocker at all when you start a 60-game season at 19-31.
The next time you see the Washington Nationals after Sunday, it will probably be Mike Rizzo and his manager standing behind a batting cage at one of the practice fields at the FITTEAM spring training complex in West Palm Beach, Florida. While we expect that manager to be Dave Martinez — it is not official at this point in time.
The roster is a huge question mark going into 2021 in terms of turnover and the budget and who Rizzo will target for acquisitions. We know who is under team control for next year, but some of those players could be let go either under declined options, non-tenders, DFA or trades. Continue reading
Goodbye Phillies
The Nats placed Carter Kieboom on the 10-day IL which ends his season, and Trea Turner was scratched after he was in the original lineup. We have no idea if Turner was a healthy scratch or if there was an injury or sickness that caused the scratch.
Turner, along with Juan Soto will get MVP votes although neither will win the award even though either player could win the batting crown as they rank in the Top-3 along with Freddie Freeman. On top of that, Soto is well-ahead in the OPS rankings. Trea is in a small group of the 10/10 Club comprised of players with at least 10 home runs and at least 10 stolen bases. Continue reading
We already wrote about how Luis Garcia’s family friend could not watch his MLB debut because the Hilton Hotel across from Camden Yards was closed due to COVID, and there was no perch to watch the game short of breaking into a building which this person did not do. This has been a plight on families for the most part to watch their loved ones in their debuts — a long tradition snuffed out by COVID with all stadiums being closed to spectators.
But Leslie Espino got creative and went to the roof of the Hampton Inn hotel across the street from Nationals Park and was able to secure spots on the rooftop as the the only way to watch her husband, Paolo Espino, make his Washington Nationals debut. Leslie took Lisandra Hernandez, who is the wife of the 32-year-old rookie Yadiel Hernandez, with her as well as our photographer, Sol Tucker, to cover this story.
Who knew the game would end in such a historic way with Hernandez as the hero. Of course it was Hernandez who hit the dramatic walk-off home run to win the game. The first homer of his career.
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