by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
The Washington Nationals won another 1-run game; a strength of this team in the 2025 season. Their 24-18 record shows what they can do in close games. It is the 44 blow-out losses against only 16 blow-out wins as the reason this team has a losing record. That happens when you have a pitching staff that easily clinched the second worst ERA in all of baseball.
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The Washington Nationals played great and poor in the same game last night. A great effort wiped out by four errors and five unearned runs given up that made it a frustrating loss that wasted a three home run performance by Luis Garcia Jr. That was a feat that has only been done seven times before in Nats’ history. Add to that, Daylen Lile hit a game-tying 3-run homer to bring the Nats back from a 8-1 deficit. Unfortunately, Jose A. Ferrer blew his first 9th inning as the closer, and the Nats lost 10-9.
Defense matters and in this game, the defense cost the Nats a win that would have been the best comeback of the season. In one game, you saw the best and worst of the Nats. Garcia showed everyone why he should be a part of the future — albeit, maybe not at second base where he has struggled on defense.
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The Washington Nationals returned to D.C. early on Wednesday, and had a rest day on Thursday. Today, they begin their final weekend before they depart to their offseason homes. If you could bottle up Wednesday’s game — we wouldn’t want the season to end. What a win for the Nats.
Maybe the most significant part from that Atlanta series was the resurgence of James Wood with three homers in the two games he played in that series and no strikeouts. On Tuesday, he started his night with a double then in his next at-bat he sprinted to first base on a groundout and was out by one stride, and in his final at-bat, Wood hit a homer off of a lefty reliever. On Wednesday, he crushed two homers. That was the All-Star we fell in love with in the first half of the season.
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Hey guys, my apologies for the little absence from the site. College life is not for the weak, I’ll put it that way. Anyways, the Washington Nationals got a win today in their final road and divisional game of the season, in a 4-3 victory over the Braves in Atlanta. Andrew Alvarez continued his impressive September with a 4⅓-inning scoreless outing, which was supplemented by some power from the Nats’ order.
The Nats got on the board first in the top of the first inning as Daylen Lile just keeps on hitting, this time it was an RBI single to put the Nationals ahead 1-0. Bryce Elder and Andrew Alvarez went back and forth trading zeroes until the fourth, when Josh Bell smacked a solo home run to double the lead and make it a 2-0 ballgame.
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At a Hot Stove event, former GM, Mike Rizzo, referred to a long-standing employee as part of the furniture. The same could have been said for Rizzo who was the first hire by the Lerner family when they purchased the Washington Nationals in 2006. Rizzo came to the team as an Assistant General Manager (AGM) under GM Jim Bowden. When Bowden departed a few years later, Rizzo was elevated to run the GM position until he was fired on July 6.
The team promoted long-time assistant GM, Mike DeBartolo, as the interim-GM simultaneous to the Rizzo firing, and for the past month the ownership group has been searching for a permanent GM with DeBartolo among the many candidates. The natural hunting grounds for a GM was to look at top AGMs with other teams. One of the obstacles, as a source told us, you must seek permission from a team to interview a current employee, and that has made this a situation where you might not get to interview everyone you hoped to get on the list. However, several of the Nats’ top targets were interviewed — and it led to a decision as first reported by Jeff Passan of ESPN that the Nationals have hired Boston Red Sox assistant general manager, Paul Toboni, as their head of baseball operations.
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The Washington Nationals were in last night’s game until the end. The score was tied 1-1 at the top of the 6th inning. Interim-manager Miguel Cairo shoved starter Brad Lord for one more inning to face the hot Braves’ lineup for a third time, and he quickly gave up a homer. Sure, two runs over 6.0 innings is good — but with a 10-man bullpen, why not see what your bullpen could do. The Nats lost 3-2.
Maybe the most significant part of last night’s game was that this had to be the best we have seen of James Wood in months. He started his night with a double then in his next at-bat he sprinted to first base on a groundout and was out by one stride, and in his final at-bat, Wood hit a homer off of a lefty reliever. He had one walk, and no strikeouts in the game. The 6’7″ lefty looked like our All-Star we fell in love with in the first half of the season.
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The Washington Nationals are playing for pride, yet respectability left the station months ago. No chance of reaching 70-wins, the Nats would have to win out just to get to 69. With 64-wins in the books, Vegas will only pay off those who were pessimistic and took the “under” on the season win total. Even the great first 87-games from James Wood and MacKenzie Gore were soiled with second half slumps.
For Gore, he went into the All-Star game with a 3.02 ERA and his season ended yesterday with an ankle impingement and a 4.17 ERA. We will see if Andrew Alvarez, Cade Cavalli, and Brad Lord can beat his ERA. For Wood, he had a .958 and was a Top-5 player in baseball that week before the All-Star break. Today, he is trying to stay above an .800 OPS and attempting not to set the ignominious strikeout record he is nine away from taking away from Mark Reynolds. Not the type of record you want to own. On top of that, Daylen Lile leapfrogged Wood for the team lead in OPS on Sunday. Yesterday Wood got a rest day to keep his strikeouts at 215.
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Another year, another MLB season in which the Washington Nationals failed to sniff a winning season, let alone a playoff berth. So…what’s next?
This is the question the Nats are tasked with tackling over the MLB offseason. And it has a wide variety of potential answers. There are that many different directions in which Washington can head, and it will start with building a new front office that includes the player development group, draft group, and scouting. They could look to fast-track their timeline if they have broader budgetary constraints, and spend their way out in free agency which most don’t expect. They could consign themselves to the more gradual course they were supposed to have been on — you know, the one that derailed off the tracks this year — the one that has resulted in six straight losing seasons. Or they could look to straddle the line in between.
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The Washington Nationals shocked the New York Mets over the weekend, and played the spoiler role to the point that if the season ended yesterday, the Mets would have lost the playoff tie-breaker against the Reds, and the Mets would not have made the playoffs.
Luckily for the Mets, three teams make the Wild Card in each league, and they just have to hope the Reds falter in this final week. Unfortunately for the Nationals and the Braves, they are both just playing for pride as both teams have already been eliminated from playoff contention. As summer officially ended today, the Boys of Autumn have six more games to play before their offseason begins later on Sunday.
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