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  • August 29, 2023: Rookie Jacob Young achieves an unusual Nationals’ first

    In his fourth big-league game and third start after his 2023 call-up, center fielder Jacob Young was a busy man against the home-standing Toronto Blue Jays. In the seventh, he laid down a perfect bunt and beat it out without throw for his first hit in the majors. Noted for his speed, the Nationals 2022… Read more

  • A near claim to fame for Sievers and Roseboro

    While it doesn’t rank near the game’s well-known achievements, being the last player to wear the uniform of a relocated (and sometimes renamed) team has given 11 men since 1953 a certain claim to fame. A single at-bat at the end of the1956 season, for example, made Bob Aspromonte the last man to have played… Read more

  • Why doesn’t Tom Cheney have a ’63 Topps card?

    The 1963 Topps baseball card set has 576 cards, but famously not one is of the reigning National League MVP, Maury Wills. The story is that in the spring of 1959, Wills wasn’t offered $5 to sign the standard Topps contract to put his image on a card because he wasn’t a good enough prospect.… Read more

  • Griffith Stadium in 1956 became the last A.L. ball park to sell beer

    Beer sales weren’t allowed in Washington’s Griffith Stadium until August 10, 1956. That left only Forbes Field in Pittsburgh and Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia as the only major league ball parks where, thanks to Pennsylvania law, fans couldn’t buy beer.* Washington’s longtime owner Clark Griffith had died in October 1955. A teetotaler, he favored… Read more

  • August 29, 1963: Twins hit record 8 homers against Senators in D.C.

    updated August 2025 At D.C. Stadium on August 29, 1963, the Minnesota Twins tied the then-major-league record for home runs in a game by one team with eight. Harmon Killebrew had two round-trippers. Bob Allison had one. Both had been sluggers with the old Senators. A future expansion Nat, Bernie Allen, hit one. The eight… Read more

  • 2023 Nats snap a record streak of not sweeping a series

    On July 23, 2023, the Washington Nationals beat the San Francisco Giants, 6-1, in Washington. Led by a young core of Josiah Gray, MacKenzie Gore, Lane Thomas, CJ Abrams, Keibert Ruiz, and Luis Garcia, with veteran contributions from Jeimer Candelario and Dom Smith, the Nationals took all three games in the series from the contending… Read more