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2019 World Series: ‘The top of baseball’s highest peak’
Game 1, Tuesday October 22. As the series opened in Houston, both teams had their aces on the mound—Max Scherzer for the Nationals and Gerrit Cole for the Astros. Trea Turner opened the series with a...
View ArticleNats’ 2020-2021 offseason in review: ‘I like to learn a lot of new things...
After winning their championship in 2019, the Nats’ front office mostly held pat heading into 2020. The result was brutal—the team’s first losing season in a decade as they tied for last place in the...
View ArticleNats’ May in review: ‘This is a way different year than 2019’
The Nationals entered May tied for second place in the NL East, a game behind the division-leading Phillies. During the month, they slipped further and further behind, and— with a five-game losing...
View ArticleNats’ June in review: ‘I want to play stupid’
At the beginning of June, the Nationals had a 21–29 record and were in last place in the NL East, 7 games behind the division-leading Mets. There was already speculation about which players would be...
View ArticleOn Jon Lester, Ted Lyons, and pitching on six days rest
On Monday Jon Lester pitched by far his best game of the season—7 shutout innings, allowing 6 hits and no walks, while striking out 7. Due to the All-Star break, he was also pitching on eight days...
View ArticleNats’ July in review: Today is heart wrenching as we say goodbye
Nationals fans couldn’t be blamed for feeling optimistic as July began. After a strong winning record in June, the Nats were in second place, only two games behind the division-leading Mets. A tough...
View ArticleNats’ August in review: ‘The boys are playing hard’
The Nationals went 7-20 in August, their worst monthly record since April 2009. Having opened the month in fourth place, 7½ games behind the division-leading Mets, they finished August still in fourth...
View ArticleNats’ 2021-2022 offseason in review: ‘We’ve got to build you up’
With the Nationals in rebuilding mode, the team patched some gaps during the offseason but did little that seems likely to affect their longer term hopes of reconstituting a winning team. Here’s a...
View ArticleNats’ May in review: “But it’s frustrating”
The Nationals faced a tough schedule in May, playing 14 games against the division-leading Mets, Astros, Brewers, and Dodgers, plus another four games against the strong Giants and Angels. They ended...
View ArticleNats’ 2022–2023 off season in review: “The first rung on the ladder to get back”
On February 12, 2023, the Nationals founding principal owner, Ted Lerner, passed away at the age of 97. With the team up for sale, the Lerner era is soon likely to pass into history. The Nationals had...
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