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Nats trying to stay fresh during unexpected weekend off

Nats trying to stay fresh during unexpected weekend off
After a week of frustrating bombshells - Juan Soto testing positive for coronavirus, Stephen Strasburg getting scratched from his season debut due to a hand injury - and uninspired play, the Nationals were just starting to find their groove this week. They won a thriller of a 10-inning game with the Blue Jays on Wednesday night, then came right back and won again Thursday afternoon to sweep the bizarre road series in their home ballpark. Things were starting to feel normal. Or, at least as...
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Harris placed on 10-day IL with right groin strain

Harris placed on 10-day IL with right groin strain
The Nationals placed Will Harris on the 10-day injured list this morning with a right groin strain, an injury that cropped up in recent days and kept the veteran reliever from pitching in what seemed like an obvious situation for him during Thursday's win over the Blue Jays. The transaction is retroactive to July 29, making Harris eligible to return Aug. 8 at the earliest. Harris appeared in only two of the Nationals' first seven games this season, and looked shaky in each. He made his debut...
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As Doolittle and Harris get right, Nats trust Rainey and Hudson

As Doolittle and Harris get right, Nats trust Rainey and Hudson
As the bottom of the eighth arrived Thursday evening, the Nationals leading the Blue Jays by three runs, Davey Martinez needed to decide which two relievers he would put on the mound to try to close out this victory. Based on both track record and recent usage, the answer appeared to be obvious: Will Harris for the eighth, Sean Doolittle for the ninth. Neither would pitch in the game. Instead, it was Tanner Rainey (pitching for the third straight day and for the fifth time in six days) in the...
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Nerve pain gone, Strasburg plans to throw off mound

Nerve pain gone, Strasburg plans to throw off mound
Stephen Strasburg is no longer feeling the nerve pain in his right hand that prevented him from making his first two scheduled starts of the season, and the Nationals are planning for the veteran right-hander to throw off a mound this weekend and then potentially make his 2020 debut shortly after that. Strasburg, sidelined with what he referred to as a nerve impingement in his right wrist, has thrown off flat ground each of the last two days with no issues, according to manager Davey Martinez....
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Kendrick day-to-day with upper back injury

Kendrick day-to-day with upper back injury
There were several moments late in Wednesday night's game at Nationals Park that seemed to be screaming for Howie Kendrick to grab a bat and step to the plate. The veteran infielder was scratched from the Nationals' original lineup against the Blue Jays due to upper back stiffness, but in announcing that change several hours before game time the club also stated he would be available to pinch-hit. Kendrick, though, never was seen in the dugout during the game. And despite situations that...
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Nats win 10-inning pitchers' duel to snap skid (updated)

Nats win 10-inning pitchers' duel to snap skid (updated)
Whether played in Washington, Toronto, Buffalo or Sheboygan, tonight's game between the Nationals and Blue Jays deserved to be played in front of a packed house. It was that good. Alas, you can't play a ballgame in front of anyone right now, so the select few who were allowed inside Nationals Park to witness this taut pitchers' duel that ended as a 4-0, 10-inning victory for the Nats could only appreciate it for everyone else watching at home. Playing under Major League Baseball's funky new...
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Game 6 lineups: Nats at* Blue Jays (Kendrick scratched)

Game 6 lineups: Nats at* Blue Jays (Kendrick scratched)
Who's ready for some poutine, fastball velocities measured in kph instead of mph and the Nationals wearing their gray coloured pants inside their home ballpark? It's Bizarro World on South Capitol Street for the next two nights. Because the Canadian government won't allow teams to travel in and out of the United States without going through 14-day quarantines, and because the Triple-A stadium in Buffalo won't be up to major league standards for another week, the Blue Jays are forced to play...
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Nats trying to find the fun while snapping out of losing streak

Nats trying to find the fun while snapping out of losing streak
Ask anyone who was around the 2019 Nationals what turned their season around and you'll get two answers: They got healthy after a rash of injuries devastated the roster in April and early May, and they relaxed and started having fun on and off the field. Five games into the 2020 season, the Nationals are again dealing with the absence of several key players (Juan Soto, Stephen Strasburg, Ryan Zimmerman) for a variety of reasons. And they most certainly don't look like they're having fun on...
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Nationals slog through another loss to Blue Jays (updated)

Nationals slog through another loss to Blue Jays (updated)
There's no delicate way to put this: The Nationals are a listless bunch on the baseball field right now. It's perfectly understandable, given the circumstances. They're trying to play through a pandemic. Their top slugger remains stuck in quarantine even though he's passed two official coronavirus tests and several more unofficial ones. Their World Series MVP is sidelined with a nerve injury in his hand. Their face of the franchise is sitting at home watching on TV after opting out of this...
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Nats won't play this weekend after Marlins series is postponed

Nats won't play this weekend after Marlins series is postponed
The Nationals are playing the Blue Jays tonight at Nationals Park in the finale of a two-game series in which they are the home team. Then the two clubs will play again Wednesday and Thursday at Nationals Park, with the Blue Jays becoming the designated home team because they're not allowed to play in Toronto and their replacement home in Buffalo isn't ready yet. Then the Nationals will have the entire weekend off because they can neither play the Marlins as scheduled in Miami nor at home in...
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Game 5 lineups: Nats vs. Blue Jays

Game 5 lineups: Nats vs. Blue Jays
This has become a recurring theme every day during this unprecedented season: The Nationals spend the morning and afternoon dealing with major news events, then have to actually take the field to play a ballgame in the evening. So far, that has resulted in a 1-3 record. They'll try to flip that back in a more positive direction tonight in the second of four games with the Blue Jays. Austin Voth will try to do what Aníbal Sánchez couldn't do last night: keep Toronto's hitters in the...
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Nats' thoughts on Marlins, Strasburg throws, Roark returns

Nats' thoughts on Marlins, Strasburg throws, Roark returns
Some news and notes on this Tuesday morning ... * Baseball can be a respite from world events. Right now, it's also a respite from baseball. After spending all of Monday morning and afternoon consumed with the news of the Marlins' coronavirus outbreak, the Nationals went out and played their own game. They went on to lose, 4-1 to the Blue Jays, but nobody was attributing their performance to the distraction of that far more important development. "Honestly, once the game starts you get so...
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Blue Jays' blasts beat Nationals' bloops and blunders (updated)

Blue Jays' blasts beat Nationals' bloops and blunders (updated)
A flurry of singles and well-struck balls should have portended a good night at the plate for the Nationals. It didn't. Ten singles and a double by the home team only produced one run, and that wasn't nearly enough to make up for the four solo homers the Blue Jays launched off Aníbal Sánchez during a 4-1 victory at Nationals Park that only served to add to the defending champs' frustration during the opening stretch of this unusual season. The four blasts off Sánchez - two by...
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Game 4 lineups: Nats vs. Blue Jays

Game 4 lineups: Nats vs. Blue Jays
As we're quickly learning, much of the morning and afternoon right now is spent dealing with serious news stories involving people's health, and then the evening arrives and we remember there's a ballgame to be played. Strange times, and I'm not sure we'll ever get used to this daily ritual. The Nationals, after dropping two of three to the Yankees in frustrating fashion, now host the Blue Jays for four games at Nationals Park. Er, sort of. They're hosting the first two games of this...
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Nats add veteran utilityman Harrison, send Read down

Nats add veteran utilityman Harrison, send Read down
The Nationals formally signed Josh Harrison to a major league contract today and will have the veteran utilityman in uniform for tonight's series opener against the Blue Jays. Harrison, 33, was released by the Phillies last week before playing in a regular season game for them. The nine-year veteran and two-time All-Star is a career .273 hitter with 53 homers, 277 RBIs and a .714 OPS, the vast majority of his time coming with the Pirates. The Nationals had expressed some interest in acquiring...
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Hitters need a crash course in timing at the plate

Hitters need a crash course in timing at the plate
It was kind of understood that pitchers would be ahead of hitters during baseball's first weekend of 2020. Even though pitchers had precious little time build their arms up during a three-week summer camp, hitters had even fewer opportunities to hone their timing against live pitching. The result hasn't been surprising. Thirty-three times already, a team has been held to two or fewer runs. "I've seen so many strikeouts over the whole league. You can tell guys aren't really ready,"...
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Nationals let game, series slip away late (updated)

Nationals let game, series slip away late (updated)
In this shortened, 60-game season, the outcome of any tight ballgame is going to be magnified, all the more so when the lead flips late. Under normal circumstances, the Nationals might not feel terrible about a 3-2 loss to the Yankees in a well played game between two powerhouse clubs that could've gone either way. But these are not normal circumstances. Every win is precious, especially those that were right there for the taking. Despite getting a dominant start from Patrick Corbin in his...
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Game 3 lineups: Nats vs. Yankees

Game 3 lineups: Nats vs. Yankees
If someone told you neither Juan Soto nor Stephen Strasburg would appear in the Nationals' opening series against the Yankees but they'd still have a chance to win the series, what would you have thought? To their credit, the Nats have given themselves an opportunity to do just that, if they can win this afternoon's finale on South Capitol Street. The good news: They've got Patrick Corbin on the mound to make his first start of 2020. The Syracuse native and childhood Yankees fan broke a lot...
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Unexpected stars shine in Nats' rout of Yankees (updated)

Unexpected stars shine in Nats' rout of Yankees (updated)
No Stephen Strasburg? No worries, because Erick Fedde was ready for his emergency start. No Juan Soto? No worries, because Victor Robles, Asdrúbal Cabrera and the rest of the Nationals lineup more than made up for the continued absence of the club's best hitter. And if those two developments during tonight's 9-2 blowout win over the Yankees weren't surprising enough, Davey Martinez managed to get five scoreless innings from his bullpen without using any of his top three arms. It might...
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Game 2 lineups: Nats vs. Yankees

Game 2 lineups: Nats vs. Yankees
A lot has happened over the last 72 hours, only some of it having to do with actual baseball. Hopefully, though, baseball takes center stage this evening and remains there for the foreseeable future. If nothing else, the Nationals would love to be able to play a full nine innings for the first time since October. The good news: Tonight's forecast looks much better. There's still a slight chance of storms, but nothing like we saw earlier in the week. Stephen Strasburg was supposed to make his...
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