by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
Photo by John Caulfield for TalkNats
Matt Adams drove in Trea Turner for the winning run in the 11th inning in a game that Zack Greinke departed with a 1-to-0 lead until Archie Bradley balked home the tying run. Tanner Roark was brilliant tonight going 7.0 innings of 1-run baseball, and the bullpen threw a 4 inning shutout. Continue reading
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The Nationals season series against the Diamondbacks will wrap-up this weekend, and there is a good chance the next times these two teams could see each other is in October if both teams advance to the post-season. The Diamondbacks currently own the best record in the National League while the Nationals are another long winning streak away from getting on top of the NL East. Continue reading
In the off-season, all of the prospect gurus published their lists of Top Prospects. Baseball America, Keith Law of ESPN and Jonathan Mayo at MLB.com posted their prospect lists, and while the differences vary by each analyst, there is very little debate about the futures of Victor Robles and Juan Soto in the eyes of anyone watching. They are the Washington Nationals top two prospects and two of the top prospects in all of baseball. The Nationals next top prospect is shortstop Carter Kieboom who was a first round pick in the 2016 draft from Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia. Continue reading
Tony Gwynn in the Padres Monument Park
The Washington Nationals look to wrap-up this 3-game series with Gio Gonzalez on the mound in San Diego before the team flies to Phoenix, Arizona for a 4-game series against the top team in the National League. Nationals manager Dave Martinez will take advantage of rookie lefty Joey Lucchesi pitching to go righty dominant with the entire batting order to include his switch-hitters because of the splits. Righties have an OPS of .728 against Lucchesi versus lefties at just .523. Lucchesi started hot out of the gates for the Padres but he got knocked around by the Dodgers 5 days ago while laboring through 5 innings averaging 20 pitches per inning. Continue reading
On the morning of April 9th, NatsTown was not a happy place as the Nationals were mired in a 5-game losing streak. There were fans who were ready to burn the town down. They had manager Dave Martinez pegged as a disaster. They were dissing Trea Turner as a batter who couldn’t hit. They were calling Brandon Kintzler a mistake of a signing. They were wrong about all three.
Ultimately the fans were right about A.J. Cole and Miguel Montero. Natstown did not even know the real severity of Adam Eaton‘s ankle that he injured days before -or- that 4 days forward from April 9th that Anthony Rendon would fracture his toe and eventually join Eaton and Daniel Murphy on the disabled list.
While the jury is still out 30-days later on Ryan Zimmerman and Michael Taylor, they are still playing every day (when healthy) and at the time along with Montero were all negative WAR players on that day. Zimmerman is still negative WAR and Taylor’s WAR (+0.2) has been bolstered by excellent defense.
The sun was shining early on the Nationals and Jeremy Hellickson as he shut the Padres down for 6 innings with no Padres reaching base. Travis Jankowski broke up the perfect game in the 7th inning, and the Nats cruised the rest of the way for a 4-to-0 shutout. Matt Adams delivered the clutch RBI double to open up the scoring and some add-on runs from his friends made it a nice efficient evening. Add to that a clutch ROOGY out for Ryan Madson and the Nats cruise to their 9th win in 10 games and move ahead of the NY Mets in the standings with this win. Continue reading
Since manager Dave Martinez placed Bryce Harper into the lead-off spot and moved Matt Adams to the #3, the Nationals have not faced a lefty starter and that all changed today with Clayton Richard on the mound for the San Diego Padres and righties hit him at a .961 OPS and lefties even have a .286 batting average against him this year. That could change today’s line-up or maybe not. Continue reading
When we started our interview with Potomac Nationals manager Tripp Keister, we first talked about the transitions he has seen from top prospect Victor Robles who Keister managed last year to inheriting the Nationals #2 and #3 prospects this year in Juan Soto and Carter Kieboom. Keister made it clear that he does not play favorites among the 25-players on his High-A roster. Continue reading
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This game started hot when Trea Turner in the 2-hole crushed a home run over the centerfield wall for the early lead, but the Padres tied it up in the 4th inning 1-to-1. Then the Nats blew the game open with 5 RBIs by Matt Adams powered by two home runs and Anthony Rendon added two doubles, and Trea Turner did it all tonight scoring 3 runs. Strasburg went a full 7 innings throwing 109 pitches giving up 3 runs. The Nats bullpen was shaky which made the final score 8-to-5 pushing the Nats to 2 games above .500 and 1 1/2 games within first place. Continue reading
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