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We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
We understand there have been frustrations and increased feedback, and we’re actively working to improve things. What we ask is simple: use the system and give it a fair shot. If you run into issues, please submit them through the support form so we can track and fix them properly. Repeated complaints without details don’t help us solve problems—we appreciate your patience as we continue refining the experience.
If you’d like a full side-by-side comparison of the platforms and the reasons behind this decision, please refer to the chart below. This change is being made with the long-term benefit of the entire community in mind.
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Juan Soto in Spring Training after his 1st home run for the Nationals
Since the beginning of the season through yesterday, the Washington Nationals have been involved in 57 different roster moves which included many procedural transactions — but too many moves to the dreaded disabled list. It has been head spinning keeping up with all of the roster comings and goings. The Nationals will make three more roster moves today including promoting 19-year-old Juan Soto to the active roster which is now official with Moises Sierra DFA’d and Jefry Rodriguez optioned back to Double-A. Now we are at 60 roster moves for the regular season with many more to come.
A month ago, Soto was punishing South Atlantic League pitchers in Low-A before a promotion to the Carolina League High-A with the Potomac Nationals before his recent short stint with the Double-A Harrisburg Senators. Continue reading →
The Nationals were being no-hit through the 5th inning and then in the bottom of the 6th inning the Nationals exploded for 4-runs to take a 4-2 lead in the nightcap of this doubleheader. Instead of going to the bullpen for the top of the 7th inning, Max Scherzer came out for one more inning and dominated to finish up his night at 121 pitches. Scherzer had not pitched for 8-days due to days-off and rainouts.
This game started with Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill removed after just 2 pitches with a blister and then watched the Dodgers bullpen no-hit the Nationals for 5 innings. The Nationals woke up in the 6th inning, and this is why you play to the end. The bleak start and poor weather seemed to go together on this day along with more injury news for the Nationals who lost Howie Kendrick for the season. When the Nationals offense exploded in the 6th inning it charged some electricity into a Nationals Park in the gloomy weather with the 4-run inning.
When the Nationals bullpen took the ball for the 8th inning, it was Sammy Solis not Ryan Madson or Brandon Kintzler who got the start to the inning against a tough switch-hitting Grandal and then the lefty Bellinger. When Solis came in, it was Kintzler not Madson who warmed up. Solis gave back 1-run on a missed location fastball to cut the Nationals lead to 4-to-3 before Kintzler was called in to finish the inning before heading to the bottom of the 8th inning. Ryan Madson never got up at all in this game. Where was Madson I asked during the game? Was something wrong with him? It was possible as Nationals radio voice Charlie Slowes said that maybe Madson was not available.
The Nationals offense other than the 6th inning would not score the remainder of the game. It was closer Sean Doolittle who would get the ball for the the 9th inning to face the Dodgers bottom of the order. Doo could not strikeout the first 2 hitters who he had in 2-strike counts and both got hits — one line drive hit and one bloop and they both look like line drives in the boxscore. With no outs, Matt Kemp entered to pinch-hit and promptly smacked a double for the game winner and Doolittle’s first blown save in ten save opportunities.
“This was just a great, competitive ballgame from both teams,” Scherzer said. “We did a good job of competing. We were down early, found a way to rally, scored and got the lead. They competed and found a way to win the game.”
Like Max Scherzer, many members of the bullpen had not pitched in seven or eight days. There was a lot of rust and this was a fear with the roster. Losing the nightcap was a gut punch after the effort of Scherzer and the 6th inning offense.
In game two of this doubleheader, the Nationals enter the game with new uncertainty as Howie Kendrick suffered an apparent injury to his lower leg. Kendrick will certainly head to the disabled list but who do they call up as Rafael Bautista blew-out his knee in a Triple-A game, and the 40-man roster is thin on position players with Brian Goodwin, Victor Robles, Daniel Murphy, Ryan Zimmerman, Matt Wieters, and Jhonatan Solano all on the DL. There are no other pure outfielders remaining on the 40-man roster, however Matt Reynolds has been playing in the outfield. Continue reading →
After another postponement of Game #44, we will try again for 2:05 pm this afternoon at Nationals Park. The weather radar looks iffy at best until late afternoon so this will be a wait and see when the first game of this scheduled doubleheader takes place. The good news is the weather report looks good for the entire evening and all of Sunday which should see some sunshine tomorrow. Continue reading →
Rain is the worst. It gets the back of my pants all wet, causes my windshield and my glasses to fog up, and, when combined with high winds, has caused leaks in my roof. But perhaps worst of all, it messes with baseball. And that, my friends, is unacceptable. Continue reading →
Rain, rain go away — come again another day — Daddy wants to play. If Brooklyn Scherzer could talk — she would probably sing that song for her father, Max Scherzer, who is the scheduled starting pitcher tonight for the Washington Nationals. Did you chant those first eight words when you were a kid and your Little League game was hanging in the balance by Mother Nature? I did many times. Mother Nature could be so cruel when you were a kid hoping for some sunshine to play that cherished game. Well, game forty-three was officially a suspended game due to weather against the Yankees in a 3-3 tie, and game forty-four against the Yankees was a postponed game due to weather, and both of those games have been rescheduled for June 18th. Continue reading →
It’s supposed to be April showers bring May flowers not May showers bring baseball rain-outs. That does not even rhyme! The highly anticipated 2-game series against the Yankees on Tuesday and Wednesday became casualties of Mother Nature’s wrath moving both games to June 18th beginning at 5:05 pm. The Nationals will be returning from a Father’s Day game against the Toronto Blue Jays the day before, and the Yankees will be traveling a much shorter distance from N.Y.C. for these games. Continue reading →
You see the name of this large Texan, Gabe Klobosits, and you know there’s a story behind it. Sure enough, the origins of the Klobosits family name come from Austrian lineage. You know, Austrian like Arnold Schwarzenegger — not Australian like Crocodile Dundee which is what his friends in Texas thought. Now Gabe Klobosits can laugh about it. The pronunciation of his name will continue to get botched and that’s okay for the 23-year-old (happy birthday) from Katy, Texas. They will get his name right when he gets to the Major Leagues as the announcers get the game notes with the phonetic pronunciation. Continue reading →
When the Washington Nationals signedMatt Adams, we were encouraged to hear from his college baseball coach, Jeff Messer, that “Big City” was in the best shape of his career and Pilates was the main reason behind his new and improved body. What we learned was Adams had gone through a body transformation that has been a work in progress that he started with his Pilates instructor Kim Wallis in St. Louis. Continue reading →
Like a scene out of “The Natural” it was fittingly described to what we watched dramatically unfold last night. Mark Reynolds channeled his inner Roy Hobbs and hit two mighty majestic blasts after waiting a long time for his chance to play baseball again as he was staring at early retirement a little more than a month ago. Mark Reynolds spent all of the off-season and then some not knowing the next MLB franchise he would be calling home after a stellar 2017 season in Denver where he hit 30 home runs and drove in 97 runs for the Colorado Rockies. With few options, Reynolds joined other unemployed free agents at the Player’s Union camp in Bradenton, Florida through March 9th which was when the camp was closed and then players were on their own to stay in shape and hope to catch on with a Major League team. Like the fictional Hobbs, the real-life Mark Reynolds has known frustration as he didn’t get his MLB debut until the ripe age of twenty-six. Continue reading →
We recently upgraded our comment system to improve reliability, performance, and long-term control, and we’re currently running both systems during the transition. This shift moves us away from an external service to a system we run and control directly—meaning we own the content and can continue improving it over time. We’ve also reduced the comment refresh delay from about 30 seconds to 10 seconds, making it much closer to real-time.
We understand there have been frustrations and increased feedback, and we’re actively working to improve things. What we ask is simple: use the system and give it a fair shot. If you run into issues, please submit them through the support form so we can track and fix them properly. Repeated complaints without details don’t help us solve problems—we appreciate your patience as we continue refining the experience.
If you’d like a full side-by-side comparison of the platforms and the reasons behind this decision, please refer to the chart below. This change is being made with the long-term benefit of the entire community in mind.