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Byline: Andrew Golden Jake Irvin had been looking forward to Sunday's start from the moment he last walked off the mound. And the stakes were high, relatively speaking, for the [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Sep. 7Paul Skenes was still celebrating being chosen first overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2023 MLB Draft when he received word that LSU teammate Dylan [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga Can something be obvious and amazing at the same time? Dylan Crews was the second pick in the 2023 MLB draft out of LSU, where he won [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga At 75, Dusty Baker is a baseball lifer. He is also a philosopher. âHow many of these young men, or people in life, reach their lifetime goal [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden The exhaustion Jake Irvin felt last season came to a head in September during a start in Milwaukee. It was the penultimate outing of his rookie campaign, [...]

Byline: Spencer Nusbaum Jacob Young is, to be succinct, a delight in center field. He's a collection of little steps on an imaginary treadmill as the pitch is thrown. He [...]

Byline: Spencer Nusbaum The return of Anthony Rendon to Nationals Park this weekend has sparked a few not-too-distant memories. Rendon, an all-star during that World Series season of 2019, was [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden Earlier this month in Milwaukee, there was a frantic dash in the visiting clubhouse as the Washington Nationals gathered their belongings, preparing to catch the team bus [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden Nasim Nuñez doesn't play a lot. He has appeared in just 21 games for the Washington Nationals, primarily as a pinch runner or a defensive replacement. He [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden CJ Abrams often speaks in absolutes. It's never a matter of if with Abrams but when. His dad, Chris, preached to him that the first person who [...]

Byline: Spencer Nusbaum, Andrew Golden On a Friday in late June, Matthew LeCroy, manager of the Class AAA Rochester Red Wings, called James Wood, the top prospect in the Washington [...]

Byline: Scott Allen In early May, a fan on a popular Washington Nationals message board posited that the squad's most glaring weakness wasn't its below average lineup or limited bench [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga James Wood hadn't yet taken the field for batting practice - hadn't seen his spot on the lineup card hitting sixth, playing left field, hadn't seen 26,719 [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga When Darnell Coles envisions the best version of Keibert Ruiz, he sees something that's unapparent if you watch the Washington Nationals' starting catcher this spring. This Ruiz [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga Victor Robles turns 27 on Sunday. Why does he still play like he's 7? This should be it for Robles as a starting outfielder for the Washington [...]

Byline: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - It may someday be known as the Shortstop Class of 2019, a draft haul baseball enthusiasts evoke as fondly as football fans speak [...]

Byline: Kevin B. Blackistone When James Wood of Rockville, Md., was asked two years ago, at 19, what it felt like to be traded to his hometown Washington Nationals, he [...]

Byline: Thomas Boswell As the Washington Nationals' season of constructive rebuilding winds down with the final home game Sunday, it's appropriate to salute Stephen Strasburg. The Nats are not doing [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden Before the Washington Nationals hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, they placed left-hander MacKenzie Gore on the 15-day injured list with finger blisters and recalled Joe [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty ST. LOUIS - With two weeks until the trade deadline, the Washington Nationals are dealing with another injury that could affect whom they, well, deal: Hunter Harvey, [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty ST. LOUIS - The bunt attempt was the giveaway. In a 2-1 count Friday night, Jeimer Candelario, one of the Washington Nationals' few power threats, squared his [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden During Washington's previous road trip, San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. got a good jump and took off for second base. Nationals catcher Keibert Ruiz fired [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Technically, Mason Thompson joined the Washington Nationals before Josiah Gray, beating him by a day in that hazy summer of 2021. But from the beginning of the [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty PHILADELPHIA - When Josiah Gray called his mother Sunday, his eyes were red and his cheeks slick. He had been crying in the visiting clubhouse at Citizens [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Every few years, Lane Thomas has packed up and headed to a new organization, off to get new pointers from new coaches and feel a burning need [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden SAN DIEGO - If you only watched the first month of the Washington Nationals' season, Mason Thompson's performance against the San Diego Padres - the team that [...]

Byline: Michael Charles Stone Garrett stepped into the box on earlier this month facing his former team at Nationals Park. With the bases juiced in the bottom of the first [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden Late last week, the Washington Nationals made some notable minor league moves, with the highlight being the promotion of third baseman Brady House, their 2021 first-round draft [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden Elijah Green stood on the steps of the dugout at Virginia Credit Union Stadium in Fredericksburg a few hours before a recent game. Across from him was [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga When Stephen Strasburg threw the last of his 104 pitches and Chip Hale - the bench coach filling in for ejected manager Dave Martinez - came to [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Stephen Strasburg has not been able to perform any rehabilitation activities for more than a month, according to three people familiar with his situation, increasing doubt that [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Stephen Strasburg has not been able to perform any rehabilitation activities for more than a month, according to three people familiar with the situation, increasing doubt that [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty LOS ANGELES - Jeimer Candelario is a vibes guy without trying too hard. He smiles more than the average ballplayer. Latin American teammates often huddle by his [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty LOS ANGELES - Thaddeus Ward worked two scoreless innings at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, retiring each of the six batters he faced. And that means there's [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden For Joey Meneses, the hardest part about being the designated hitter for the Washington Nationals has been the part in which nothing is happening at all. When [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty The Washington Nationals have promoted top prospect James Wood to the Class AA Harrisburg Senators, according to three people familiar with the situation. The move comes after [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty At some point in their retelling, the memories start to sound like myths. There was a travel baseball game in Frederick, Md. The kid in the batter's [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga Juan Soto will be back at Nationals Park this week wearing the gold and brown of the San Diego Padres. Until recently, he has been a fraction [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty MacKenzie Gore started by tempering expectations. 'There's not much of a story here,' said Gore, doing his best to excite you, dear reader, for the following paragraphs. [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden MIAMI - Josiah Gray entered this season with a handful of goals. One was to pitch deeper into games. Last season, he only got into the seventh [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander WASHINGTON - The 17-year-old charged in the attempted robbery and shooting of Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. in August was ordered detained with the [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty NEW YORK - When Dave Martinez was a child and his family left Manhattan, packing up their cramped apartment on the Upper East Side, placing the framed [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden SAN FRANCISCO - Jake Alu stood in the visitors' clubhouse at Oracle Park on Monday afternoon. He wore a red shirt with a Washington Nationals logo on [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Before Jake Irvin threw a pitch at Kauffman Stadium in 2014 - which was right before he was officially recruited by the University of Oklahoma, which preceded [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden PHOENIX - During the 2021 season Arizona Diamondbacks director of pro scouting Jason Parks received a call from Josh Barfield, the team's director of player development. Barfield [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga Almost two decades ago, when Chad Kuhl entered middle school in Middletown, Del., his eye immediately fell on a new classmate. 'I spotted a blond girl, blue [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga When the Washington Nationals took the field under cloudy skies Saturday afternoon, Patrick Corbin led them onto the grass at Nationals Park, cranked his left arm like [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty Josiah Gray may have delivered the most honest moment of the Washington Nationals' 2022 season, admitting in May that he really, really, really wanted to beat the [...]

Byline: Andrew Golden WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Meredith Gore needed the approval of her brother, MacKenzie, as she drove him to baseball practice in 2014. She was his older [...]

Byline: Jesse Dougherty WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Sean Doolittle's post-spring-training plans do not match his initial hopes. He will fly to Washington with the Nationals, spend a week there [...]