Washington Nationals

Washington Nationals (48-56, fourth in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (53-50, second in the NL Central) St. Louis; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jake Irvin (7-8, 3.44 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 106 strikeouts); Cardinals: Kyle Gibson (7-3, 3.99 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 102 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK : LINE Cardinals -169, Nationals +142; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals face the St. Louis Cardinals leading the series 1-0. St. Louis has a 26-23 record at home and a 53-50 record overall. Cardinals hitters are batting a collective .245, which ranks eighth in the NL. Washington has a 25-29 record in road games and a 48-56 record overall. The Nationals have

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jacob Young hit a bases-loaded triple in the 10th inning in the Washington Nationals’ 10-8 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night. Luis Garcia Jr. drove in three runs for the Nationals, a day after they were no-hit by San Diego’s Dylan Cease for their third straight loss. “That […]

Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. NEW YORK -- The New York Mets' quest to improve their bullpen, their biggest flaw, before Tuesday's trade deadline continued Friday when they acquired reliever Ryne Stanek from the Seattle Mariners for minor-league outfielder Rhylan Thomas, the team announced.

Jake Mintz & Jordan Shusterman talk some trade deadline deals, Dylan Cease's no-hitter for the Padres and make their picks for The Good, The Bad & The Uggla.

The St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals are both looking to jump-start their offenses after suffering lulls this week. Washington scored just three runs while getting swept by the San Diego Padres in three games at home. St. Louis scored just three times while losing two of three games to the Pirates in Pittsburgh. The Nationals and Cardinals will try to revive their attack when they meet Friday night to open their three-game series in St. Louis.

Cease threw the second no-hitter in Padres history and the second of the 2024 season on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurickson Profar homered for the second consecutive game, Kyle Higashioka also went deep, and the San Diego Padres beat the Washington Nationals 12-3 on Wednesday night. Jackson Merrill came within a home run of hitting for the cycle and matched a career high with four hits for San Diego, which has won […]

Dylan Crews could be on the fast track to his major league debut.

"It was insane to put my signature down on that piece of paper and have this officially begin," Portsmouth's Ryan Minckler on signing pro contract

Cincinnati Reds owner Bob Castellini showed up for a surprise visit with the team. But Luke Maile's Sunday night speech upstaged him even into Monday.

Jul. 22—Ryan Zimmerman is no dummy. "Mr. National" hit 284 career big league homers in a 16-year Major League Baseball career played entirely with the sea-level-challenged Washington Nationals. When he was asked to take part in this summer's fast-paced Home Run Derby X competition, finding he'd be doing so in the thin, mile-high air of Isotopes Park, the 39-year-old's decision was an easy one. ...

Gavin Bruni is officially a professional baseball player. The Alliance High School alum signed with the Washington Nationals on Monday, he announced via his Instagram account.

Juan Soto has come and gone, and the San Diego Padres don't seem to have changed much. The Padres were 12 games over .500 in August 2022 when they acquired Soto in a blockbuster deal with the Washington Nationals. Then last year, San Diego finished a disappointing 82-80 despite plenty of production from Soto.

James Wood hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Washington Nationals completed a three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds with a 5-2 victory on Sunday. Wood, a 21-year-old rookie and the Nationals' top prospect, sent a first-pitch fastball from Justin Wilson 405 feet the opposite way to left field. After general manager Mike Rizzo made clear on Friday that Washington is still in rebuilding mode, the Nationals (47-53) drew even in the wild-card standings with Cincinnati, which began the second half hoping to make a playoff push.

Just when it looked like the Cincinnati Reds might get back in the NL wild-card scrum, they lost 2 straight to the Washington Nationals out of the break.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Patrick Corbin pitched six sharp innings on his 35th birthday, Juan Yepez hit a three-run homer and the Washington Nationals began the second half of the season by beating the Cincinnati Reds 8-5 on Friday night. Corbin (2-9) picked up a rare victory, retiring the first eight batters and completing six innings […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nationals right-hander Josiah Gray will have season-ending surgery for a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, the team announced Friday. It won’t be clear until Dr. Keith Meister operates on the elbow on Wednesday in Texas whether Gray’s injury will require an internal brace or Tommy John […]