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  • Hanrahan’s four inherited runners: a baseball anomaly

    On May 10, 2008, at Nationals Park, a scoring quirk let Nationals’ reliever Joel Hanrahan do what no other pitcher in the history of the American and National leagues has ever done: He was charged with allowing four inherited runners to score. It’s a record that might some day be equaled, but it can’t be… Read more

  • Mark Zuckerman, an heir to Povich, Addie and Boswell in D.C. baseball coverage

    Mark Zuckerman has been covering the Nationals since the team came into existence in 2005, first for the Washington Times, then when that paper dropped sports, briefly on his own expense – an amazing and costly level of dedication –before being hired by CSN and then MASN, where he remained through 2025. He now writes… Read more

  • HOFer Al Lopez got his start with Washington at 1925’s spring training

    Al Lopez, the longtime catcher and Hall of Fame manager, got his first chance to handle major league pitchers with Clark Griffith’s Washington Senators in 1925. Lopez was just 16 when the defending World Series champs hired him as a batting-practice catcher during spring training in Tampa, where Lopez was born and raised. “The Washington… Read more

  • Two stops later, Soto makes clear he wanted to stay in D.C.

    Juan Soto reportedly turned down an offer of $440 million over 15 years from the Washington Nationals in the summer of 2022. He’s represented by the super-agent Scott Boros, who had worked out deals with Washington in the past for free agents as high-profile as Max Scherzer. With uncertainty about the MASN situation and the… Read more

  • July 15, 2005: Nationals lose on a walk-off balk

    In the first year in Washington, the Nationals surprisingly were leading the National League East half way through the season. After winning 24 one-run games before the All-Star break, thanks in large part to the work of their All-Star closer, Chad Cordero, the Nats had suddenly experienced a reversal of fortune. In Milwaukee on July… Read more

  • July 6-7, 2018: Mark Reynolds tops a walk-off homer with a career game

    Veteran slugger Mark Reynolds platooned with Matt Adams at first base for the 2018 Nationals when Ryan Zimmerman was hurt, appearing in 86 games overall and hitting .248 with 13 home runs. On Friday night, July 6, in Washington, Reynolds hit a pinch-hit, walk-off homer, to beat the Miami Marlins, 3-2. The next night, however,… Read more