by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
The Washington Nationals are just 48-hours from the 6pm ET trade deadline on Thursday. The team flew Zach Brzykcy to Houston in case a trade is completed before the start of today’s game. Tonight’s starting pitcher, Michael Soroka, is most likely making his final start in a Nationals uniform as he has been named in several trade deals.
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The Washington Nationals struck out 19 times against Framber Valdez and a host of Astros’ relievers tonight. The offense didn’t do much, but they did just enough to supplement a tremendous performance by the pitching staff tonight. And in the end, two key hits were enough for a 2-1 Nats’ win.
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The Washington Nationals are back to the stadium where they won the World Series in 2019. Beside Jose Altuve and first base coach Gerardo Parra, both teams have almost completely turned over their rosters from that 2019 season. But but but all teams but the Nats keep their star players. Sure.
For the Astros, they have their ace, Framber Valdez, on the mound and interim-manager Miguel Cairo will sit lefties James Wood and Luis Garcia Jr. to start this game. This is a rare start for Daylen Lile against a lefty. A big test to see if he can be more than a platoon bat against only right-handed starting pitchers.
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It’s been 53 days since a Nationals starting pitcher completed seven innings, that stretch came to an end this afternoon in Minnesota. Jake Irvin, pitching in front of hundreds of family and friends, gave the Nationals a tremendous 7.0 inning performance this afternoon. And thanks to some timely hitting, Irvin guided the Nats to their second straight series win.
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The Washington Nationals inconsistent offense went from 0-0-to-9 last night in such a 2025 Nats’ way, once again beating an All-Star pitcher after two straight games of being shutout. The Nats send their Minnesota kid to the mound this afternoon in Jake Irvin.
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Consistency. That’s all you can ask from an offense, and while it may elude even the top teams in the league at times, the Nats are the polar opposite of that. After going 23 innings without scoring a single run, the offense came alive against the Twins best pitcher, All-Star Joe Ryan tonight.
The run totals for the Nats in games this week were: 1, 10, 6, 0, 0, 9. I’ve never seen a more feast-or-famine situation from a team, but this has been a pretty accurate summary of how this entire season has gone for the Nationals. That being said, let’s get into the upbeat stuff and talk about how tonight’s win went down.
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The Washington Nationals offense was once again shutout and almost lifeless. The scoreless streak ratcheted up to 21 painful innings without crossing the plate. To lose 1-0 and create no small ball was surprising. But as usual, this team seems to go as James Wood goes. He had one of his worst games of the season last night en route to an 0-4 with three strikeouts. The team is 15-48 when Wood doesn’t drive in a run.
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As I write this on Saturday morning, the Nationals haven’t scored one single run in four days, not since Tuesday. We’ve watched 21 straight innings of baseball without seeing a single guy cross the plate. And this isn’t even the first time this has happened.
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The Washington Nationals start their weekend series tonight in Minnesota, a team with a lineage that began as the original Washington Senators. In fact, Bucky Harris, the unlikely player/manager of the 1924 World Series champion Washington Senators, is still that franchise’s winningest manager in Senators/Twins history with 1,336 wins. Harris made his permanent home in Montgomery County, Maryland like many baseball players back in the day.
The Twins began as Walter Johnson‘s original Washington Senators team when they relocated for the 1961 season when it was Harmon Killebrew’s Senators and the Griffiths relocated them to the L’Étoile du Nord.
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