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Summer training news and notes

Summer training news and notes
Some news and notes for you on this Friday morning, the eve of the Nationals' first exhibition game against another club in four months ... * Though most of the attention - rightfully and deservedly - during Thursday night's intrasquad game was on Juan Soto and Howie Kendrick, there were other notable moments not involving the two big-name lineup regulars who made their summer training debuts after two weeks in mandatory quarantine. Patrick Corbin started for the home team and pitched four...
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Nationals in standoff with D.C. over quarantine rules

Nationals in standoff with D.C. over quarantine rules
The Nationals and the District of Columbia are engaged in something of a standoff, the team trying to convince local authorities to grant an exception of its strict COVID-19 quarantine rules and suggesting it may move games away from Nationals Park if the city doesn't comply, a source familiar with the situation confirmed. Though D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser granted an exemption to the team earlier this month to hold workouts and games at Nationals Park despite the city's Phase 2 law restricting...
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Soto, Kendrick, García cleared to work out (updated)

Soto, Kendrick, García cleared to work out (updated)
Juan Soto, Howie Kendrick and Luis García were cleared to participate in workouts at Nationals Park today after two weeks of quarantine required for those who either tested positive for COVID-19 or were exposed to someone who did. Soto and Kendrick were among the biggest names among the group of 11 Nationals players who had not initially been cleared to join the rest of the roster at Nationals Park when summer training opened two weeks ago. Second baseman Starlin Castro was cleared July 9...
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Fedde sharp in intrasquad game, makes case for No. 5 job

Fedde sharp in intrasquad game, makes case for No. 5 job
With only three weeks of summer training and only a few intrasquad or exhibition games to make evaluations, the Nationals are probably going to have to make their choice for No. 5 starter more off old information than anything they see right now. Still, Erick Fedde's chances for winning the job could only have improved Wednesday night, given the right-hander's performance against teammates in an intrasquad game. Starting for the visiting red team opposite Stephen Strasburg and the white team,...
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After some tinkering, Nats pleased with artificial crowd noise

After some tinkering, Nats pleased with artificial crowd noise
As Stephen Strasburg took the mound, "Seven Nation Army" blared over the public address system. The sort-of-familiar din of crowd noise could be heard in the background. And then as the leadoff batter stepped to the plate, there was Jerome Hruska's voice booming throughout Nationals Park, introducing "the shortstop ... Trea Turner!" as the crowd cheered. And then tonight's intrasquad game began, and a team of Nationals dressed in red jerseys beat a team dressed in white jerseys 4-0 in...
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Menhart "impressed" with pitchers' readiness after hiatus

Menhart "impressed" with pitchers' readiness after hiatus
After the entire team had departed West Palm Beach and spread throughout North America, the Nationals coaching staff was left to figure out what to tell each player to do to stay sharp until everyone could gather together again. The staff had to do this without having any idea when or where baseball would resume. And that meant nobody faced a challenge as difficult as Paul Menhart, the Nationals pitching coach tasked with creating and communicating the plan to several dozen pitchers. At the...
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Wednesday morning Nats Q&A

Wednesday morning Nats Q&A
We are 12 days into summer training at Nationals Park, and we're now only eight days from opening night against the Yankees. (Wow, that happened quick, didn't it?) Though they've accomplished a lot over these last 12 days, the Nationals still have a lot to straighten out before they're playing for real. That includes getting Juan Soto, Victor Robles and Howie Kendrick in camp for the first time. It includes lineup decisions, rotation decisions and 30-man roster decisions. I know it's been...
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Nats try out new extra-inning rule, get hitting coach back

Nats try out new extra-inning rule, get hitting coach back
Tonight's workout at Nationals Park featured a parade of relief pitchers, a trial run of baseball's new extra-inning rule and the return of a key member of the coaching staff. Rather than put two separate teams on the field that switched sides every half-inning like they did Monday, the Nationals mixed and matched their defensive players and batters throughout the hour-long intrasquad game. No starting pitchers participated because they need to build in a day between Max Scherzer (who starts...
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Catcher-umpire relationship faces new tests this season

Catcher-umpire relationship faces new tests this season
Baseball, more than most team sports, naturally creates social distance. There aren't many circumstances that bring people together in close quarters for more than a second or two during a specific play. With one major exception: The catcher and the plate umpire. For all the extensive changes and protocols Major League Baseball is putting in place to protect everyone on the field during a game, there isn't much that can be done about the need to have an umpire peering over the catcher's...
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Nats make their own intensity during quiet intrasquad game

Nats make their own intensity during quiet intrasquad game
They wore jerseys with names and numbers on them for the first time in four months, one team in red tops and gray pants, the other in all white. They played music between innings from a large speaker near the dugout. They sent two big league starters to the mound for this five-inning intrasquad matchup, but didn't have enough available position players to fill both lineups after one had to be scratched due to a "contact lens issue." So they were forced to use a minor league coach as the...
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Suero, Elías placed on IL for undisclosed reasons (updated)

Suero, Elías placed on IL for undisclosed reasons (updated)
The Nationals placed relievers Wander Suero and Roenis Elías on the injured list this evening, the first such transactions the club has made involving any of the eight players who had yet to be cleared to participate in summer training. No reason for Suero and Elías' placement on the IL was provided, but neither pitcher has been present through the first 11 days of at workouts at Nationals Park, both required to remain in quarantine. "I can't say anything about that," manager Davey...
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With family's blessing, Hudson sets out to duplicate 2019

With family's blessing, Hudson sets out to duplicate 2019
Daniel Hudson need not prove to anyone his commitment to family over baseball. This is the guy, of course, who missed Game 1 of last fall's National League Championship Series so he could fly home to Phoenix and be with his wife, Sara, as she gave birth to the couple's third daughter. So it should come as no surprise to learn that Daniel and Sara thought long and hard about their plan for the abbreviated 2020 season and whether it was worth the risk for the veteran reliever to leave the rest...
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Nats shift to evening workout schedule this week

Nats shift to evening workout schedule this week
The Nationals can't do anything about the scarcity of exhibition games permitted by Major League Baseball - only three per team - before opening night, so they're left to try to get more creative in creating game-like situations for players during the rest of summer training. So far, the most they've done is hold informal, intrasquad games each afternoon. Most of these have lasted only four innings, with fairly lax rules. They'll start to get more serious this week, though, with a change...
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Starters believe they'll be ready for 90-100 pitches by opener

Starters believe they'll be ready for 90-100 pitches by opener
Max Scherzer threw 48 pitches over three innings on Wednesday. Stephen Strasburg and Erick Fedde followed Friday with three innings apiece. Patrick Corbin duplicated that feat Saturday afternoon. And today, Aníbal Sánchez topped everybody by totaling 65 pitches over four mostly sparkling innings in an intrasquad game at Nationals Park. It's impossible to know how any of that will translate to actual performance once the actual games begin late next week. But for now, the simple fact all...
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Taking a crack at a 30-man opening day roster

Taking a crack at a 30-man opening day roster
It's hard to believe the Nationals open the 2020 season in 11 days, but here we are. Barring a calamitous event - and, unfortunately, calamity must remain within the realm of possibility - Max Scherzer and company are going to take the field shortly after 7 p.m. on July 23 to face the Yankees and kick off this unprecedented baseball season. And there's a whole lot the Nats still need to figure out between now and then. Like who's going to make the opening night roster. Keep in mind, all...
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Nats preparing for opener with or without missing regulars

Nats preparing for opener with or without missing regulars
As each day passes with no change in the status of several prominent Nationals players who have not yet been cleared to participate in summer training, the club moves a step closer to confronting a dilemma that may pale in comparison to matters of greater significance in the world right now but does matter to the defending World Series champs. What happens if Juan Soto, Victor Robles and Howie Kendrick aren't ready for opening night? It's a delicate subject, because the health of those three...
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More than one factor to consider in No. 5 starter choice

More than one factor to consider in No. 5 starter choice
The Nationals' chances for success in a 60-game season would seem to be bolstered by their top-of-the-line rotation. It's the backbone upon which they built a championship last year and how they've always intended to make a run at another title this year, no matter the length of the schedule. And in Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, Patrick Corbin and Aníbal Sánchez, they've got as good a starting quartet as there is in the majors. They, of course, won't be making it through this...
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Nats try to make most of limited games, MLB releases test results

Nats try to make most of limited games, MLB releases test results
With only three true exhibition games on their schedule, the Nationals aren't going to get much of an opportunity to build themselves up into regular season shape before opening night arrives July 23. They have to make the most of whatever game-like situations they can draw up in the meantime, such as today's four-inning intrasquad contest at Nationals Park. "I don't feel like these guys are not going to be ready or not be prepared for what's to come," manager Davey Martinez said. "I...
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Entering "uncharted waters," Strasburg seeks healthy 2020

Entering "uncharted waters," Strasburg seeks healthy 2020
Stephen Strasburg had spent the better part of a decade learning how best to prepare for - and then thrive in - a 162-game baseball season. And after years of fine-tuning and injuries and hopeful stretches following by disappointing conclusions, he figured it out at last. Strasburg's 2019 season was the perfect culmination of a career spent tinkering. He led the league in innings pitched. He led the league in wins. And he put together one of the great postseason runs of all-time, earning World...
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Castro joins camp, Nats thinking about piping in crowd noise

Castro joins camp, Nats thinking about piping in crowd noise
The Nationals got one of their key absent regulars into camp today, encouraged to see Starlin Castro in person at last while still waiting for several others to be cleared to participate in summer training. Castro, projected to be the club's new second baseman and potentially No. 3 hitter, hadn't been allowed to come to Nationals Park upon first arriving from the Dominican Republic. Team officials have not been able to provide specific details related to players' absences during the first...
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