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Nats waiting to name Scherzer as Thursday's starter

Nats waiting to name Scherzer as Thursday's starter
In unveiling their rotation plan for this week's series in Philadelphia, the Nationals declined to name a starter for Thursday's game at Citizens Bank Park. That, of course, is Max Scherzer's spot, and the reason they haven't officially named him their starter yet is because they're waiting to see if his right triceps feels fine after a minor tweak last week. Scherzer went through a standard bullpen session this afternoon, and according to manager Davey Martinez, that session went well and...
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Game 99 lineups: Nats at Phillies

Game 99 lineups: Nats at Phillies
Just how dire has the Nationals' predicament become? Well, consider the following ... The Nats are 5-15 this month. That's the worst 20-game stretch this team has experienced since June/July 2018. And prior to that, it hadn't happened since 2010, the last time the franchise lost 90 games in a season. What does that mean? Well, there are 64 games now left. The best 64-game stretch in club was 44-20, which came (not surprisingly) during the 2019 season. If the current Nationals somehow go...
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Rizzo's plan for Cavalli doesn't appear to include D.C. in 2021

Rizzo's plan for Cavalli doesn't appear to include D.C. in 2021
There may no prospect in baseball, certainly no pitching prospect, whose stock has risen around the sport this season more than Cade Cavalli. The Nationals felt all along they had something special in their 2020 first-round draft pick. Now the rest of the industry is catching on and recognizing the right-hander's immense talent and potential, which was on full display during the All-Star Futures Game in Colorado last week. Cavalli is not, however, a finished product yet. Not even close, given...
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Thursday morning Nats Q&A

Thursday morning Nats Q&A
The All-Star break ended one week ago, and suffice to say, it's been an awfully eventful first week back for the Nationals. There's been some good. There's been some bad. And there's been some chaos, as well. This is a critical stretch of the season for the Nats, who begin the day six games back of the Mets, still five games under .500 at 45-50. They've got a day off, then open a three-game weekend series in Baltimore on Friday as the final push to the July 30 trade deadline...
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Nats can't get ahead in regulation, lose in 10th (updated)

Nats can't get ahead in regulation, lose in 10th (updated)
They waited all night for the hit that would break a deadlocked ballgame. Just one hit at the right moment to drive in the go-ahead run and put them on a path to sweep the Marlins. And when the Nationals couldn't get the job done during nine innings of traditional baseball, they were left to try to do it in extra innings of non-traditional baseball. Which didn't suit them very well. It was Miami that pushed across two runs in the top of the 10th off closer Brad Hand, while the Nats went down...
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As Gomes and Avila rehab, Barrera earning starts behind plate

As Gomes and Avila rehab, Barrera earning starts behind plate
When the All-Star break arrived and they found themselves without either of their two experienced catchers due to injury, the Nationals elected not to go with a pair of rookies and instead signed 37-year-old René Rivera, who had recently been released by Cleveland. And then they thrust Rivera right into the lineup for Friday's second-half opener against the Padres, then again Saturday night. Rivera was back behind the plate Sunday for the resumption of the previous night's suspended game,...
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Game 95 lineups: Nats vs. Marlins

Game 95 lineups: Nats vs. Marlins
The Nationals find themselves in a position to sweep the Marlins tonight, and that's exactly the position they hoped to be in at the start of this critical week. They've taken advantage of a softer schedule, and now they'll try to take complete advantage of it and win their third straight over Miami, fourth straight overall. Erick Fedde gets the start, and he'll look to do what Jon Lester and Paolo Espino did before him: Shut out the Marlins without issuing any walks. That latter part is...
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Nats won't decide to buy or sell until right before deadline

Nats won't decide to buy or sell until right before deadline
If their general manager is to be believed, the Nationals have nine more days to prove they deserve to be trade deadline buyers and not sellers. Mike Rizzo, taking questions from beat reporters Tuesday for the first time since April, outlined a two-pronged approach he plans to take as the July 30 trade deadline approaches. He could decide to buy or he could decide to sell. And it all depends on how his team plays during this critical stretch and what the standings look like at the end of...
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Big names rise to occasion, rally Nats to victory (updated)

Big names rise to occasion, rally Nats to victory (updated)
If they're going to make their move over the next week and a half and convince their general manager he should buy at the trade deadline, the Nationals are going to have to win games on the shoulders of their stars. That's what Mike Rizzo said this afternoon in discussing how his roster, depleted by injuries, could still find a path to contention in a wide-open National League East. "The more your core guys get hurt, the more pressure is put on your star players," Rizzo said in a pregame...
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Rizzo: Nationals don't plan for Castro to return to team

Rizzo: Nationals don't plan for Castro to return to team
General manager Mike Rizzo spoke out forcefully against Starlin Castro and the recent domestic violence allegation made against the Nationals third baseman, accepting responsibility for signing him despite a previous allegation of sexual assault and saying he does not expect Castro to return to play for his team. "I am not planning on having Starlin Castro back," Rizzo said this afternoon outside the dugout at Nationals Park, taking questions from beat reporters for the first time since...
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Game 94 lineups: Nats vs. Marlins

Game 94 lineups: Nats vs. Marlins
The Nationals couldn't have gotten their week off to a better start than they did Monday night, thrashing the Marlins 18-1 and getting seven scoreless innings out of Jon Lester. Tonight we find out if that was the start of something big, or just a one-night blip. It's probably too much to ask Paolo Espino to toss seven scoreless innings himself, but the journeyman right-hander has proven capable of pitching five strong frames more than once this year. And he's facing a Marlins lineup that...
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What it would take for Bell and Zimmerman to start together

What it would take for Bell and Zimmerman to start together
Given the losses his team has sustained elsewhere around the field, Nationals manager Davey Martinez has been toying with the idea of using Josh Bell in left field on occasion as a means of getting Ryan Zimmerman into the lineup alongside his usual first base platoon partner. But in order for that plan to work, not only does Bell have to prove he can handle the outfield for the first time since he was a rookie in Pittsburgh, but Zimmerman has to prove he can rediscover the swing that produced...
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Nats hammer Marlins behind Lester's arm and bat (updated)

Nats hammer Marlins behind Lester's arm and bat (updated)
They knew the schedule was about to ease up. They just needed to get through a daunting 14-game stretch against the National League West's three contenders, sandwiched around the All-Star break, and then hope the tide would begin to turn once they had a chance to start facing lesser competition. And if tonight's 18-1 thrashing of the last-place Marlins is a sign of things to come, the Nationals might just have another run in them. And Jon Lester might not have to worry about his immediate job...
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Strasburg throwing off mound again with no issues

Strasburg throwing off mound again with no issues
There are still several more steps he'll need to take - critical steps - before he's ready to pitch for the Nationals, but Stephen Strasburg took an important one today when he threw 32 pitches off the bullpen mound and had no complaints afterward about his neck. "We'll see how he feels tomorrow, but he threw the ball well," manager Davey Martinez said in his Zoom session with reporters prior to tonight's series opener against the Marlins. "The ball came out fairly well and we'll see...
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Game 93 lineups: Nats vs. Marlins

Game 93 lineups: Nats vs. Marlins
At last, the Nationals have completed the toughest portion of their schedule, a 17-game gauntlet against the Mets, Rays, Dodgers, Padres, Giants and Padres (again) that proved every bit as difficult as you'd have thought, even moreso given their depleted roster. They finished that stretch 6-11, though against the National League West contenders, they were 3-11. Not very good. Fortunately, the schedule finally eases up beginning tonight with the opener of a three-game series against the...
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Soto carrying Home Run Derby success into second half

Soto carrying Home Run Derby success into second half
It was supposed to be a joke, the notion that the Home Run Derby might actually fix Juan Soto's swing after a first half that saw the Nationals slugger pound baseballs into the ground and fail to elevate them into the air. But Soto himself suggested he thought the idea had some merit. And when he promptly eliminated fan favorite Shohei Ohtani in the first round of the exhibition last week at Coors Field, it started to gain some momentum. And now, following a blistering weekend at the plate for...
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Escobar's ninth-inning hit caps emotional win for Nats (updated)

Escobar's ninth-inning hit caps emotional win for Nats (updated)
At the end of a weekend dominated by tragic events that occurred outside Nationals Park, the energy level inside the ballpark was understandably down. Some of that had to do with circumstances out of the home team's control, but some of it also had to do with the performance that team had put forth against a Padres club that clearly looked superior throughout the series. A wild, back-and-forth affair that saw the Nationals blow the lead, then retake it, then blow it again left everyone in the...
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Game 92 lineups: Nats vs. Padres

Game 92 lineups: Nats vs. Padres
There is one more game to play today, one more game for the Nationals before they are through a grueling stretch against the National League West's three contenders that has left their season on the brink. They've gone 2-11 against the Dodgers, Giants and Padres entering this series finale with San Diego. It's been pretty ugly. But there's a chance to salvage one win now, with Max Scherzer on the mound for today's originally scheduled nine-inning game. Scherzer, of course, looked great for...
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Shaken by shooting, Nats return and lose suspended game

Shaken by shooting, Nats return and lose suspended game
Nationals Park public address announcer Jerome Hruska thanked D.C. Police, Fire and EMS responders, stadium personnel and fans themselves for the way they responded to Saturday night's shooting on South Capitol Street and the subsequent chaos inside the ballpark. The smaller-than-usual crowd in attendance applauded. And then the Padres took the field, Pierce Johnson began his warm-up tosses, Victor Robles made his way to the plate and at 1:08 p.m., the bottom of the sixth began some 15 hours...
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A Saturday night at the ballpark unlike any other

A Saturday night at the ballpark unlike any other
It happened a split second after Kyle Finnegan struck out Wil Myers to end the top of the sixth. As the Nationals started to make their way off the field at the conclusion of a frustrating half-inning that saw their 5-4 deficit to the Padres balloon into an 8-4 deficit, the shots could clearly be heard. There were maybe five or six of them in rapid succession, emanating from our left as we looked down from the press box high above Nationals Park. We looked at each other, asked "Did you hear...
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