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Grading the 2024 Washington Nationals: pitching edition

Posted on October 12, 2024 by SaoMagnifico

While we enjoy watching the MLB postseason, the Washington Nationals are once again playing golf in October. And that means it’s time again for our annual look at how each National performed in 2024. Players here are assigned a letter … Continue reading →

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A look back on 2019 and 2020 and on to 2021 and how COVID will affect the budget and new contracts!

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

We are officially in the Washington Nationals off-season. It should be a “glass half full” vision of the future if you are an optimist. A sixty game stretch should have been an hors d’oeuvre to a main course of ribeye … Continue reading →

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Juan Soto makes his presence felt in his first World Series!

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals were given no chance to win tonight. We had heard all of the statistics that the analysts were coming up with to make it seem like a waste of time to show up since Gerrit Cole had … Continue reading →

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Stephen Strasburg’s gem takes Nats starters to 25 2/3 scoreless! Nats up 3-0!

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

This advertised pitcher’s duel became one-sided as the Nats smashed Jack Flaherty and knocked him out at the 4.0 inning mark with 4 earned runs, and Stephen Strasburg went 7.0 innings on 117 pitches of baseball with no earned runs, … Continue reading →

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7 unanswered runs to win the NLDS as Nats come from behind to advance!

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

The Washington Nationals needed to stay in the fight and wait for their moments — and they did and finally got over the proverbial hump to advance past the NLDS. This NLDS squad capitalized on future Hall-of-Famer Clayton Kershaw who … Continue reading →

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You won’t win a game if you score zero runs; The Nats score zero…

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Stephen G. "Ghost" Mears

Fortunately, this is just one ugly game, and the Nats can win tomorrow and even up this best-of-five NLDS series. The Nats had as many hits as they had errors in this game, and this was actually a 2-0 deficit … Continue reading →

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