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Nationals receive 2019 Bobby Murcer Award from Baseball Assistance Team

Nationals receive 2019 Bobby Murcer Award from Baseball Assistance Team
The Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.) has named the Nationals one of two recipients of the 2019 Bobby Murcer Award, which recognizes the team in each league whose players, managers and coaches pledge to contribute the most amount of money to B.A.T during the organization's annual spring training fundraising tour. The Blue Jays won for the American League. The award is named after the former B.A.T. Chairman who launched the fundraising tour to support the organization in its mission to assist...
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Orioles return popular "Kids Cheer Free" initiative for 2019 season

Orioles return popular "Kids Cheer Free" initiative for 2019 season
The Orioles today announced the return of the club's popular "Kids Cheer Free" initiative inviting parents to bring young Orioles fans age 9 and younger to Oriole Park at Camden Yards free of charge. Every adult who purchases a regularly-priced individual game ticket in the Upper Deck will be invited to bring up to two children (ages 9 and under) to the ballpark compliments of the Orioles. "Kids Cheer Free" tickets for the entire season can be reserved now online at orioles.com/kidsfree...
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Twins-Orioles game at Ed Smith Stadium canceled due to inclement weather

Twins-Orioles game at Ed Smith Stadium canceled due to inclement weather
Today's Orioles-Twins game at Ed Smith Stadium has been cancelled due to inclement weather. There will be no makeup date. Fans holding paid tickets for today's game purchased directly from the Ed Smith Stadium Box Office may exchange their tickets for any of the four remaining Spring Training games at Ed Smith Stadium. Fans that purchased through Orioles.com or via phone at (800)-745-3000 can exchange through Ticketmaster by calling (800) 653-8000, subject to availability. Season Plan Members...
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Nationals agree to terms with left-hander Tony Sipp

Nationals agree to terms with left-hander Tony Sipp
The Washington Nationals agreed to terms on a one-year contract with a mutual option for 2020 with left-handed pitcher Tony Sipp on Thursday. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement. Sipp, 35, went 3-1 with a 1.86 ERA in 54 games for the Houston Astros in 2018. He struck out 42 batters in 38.2 innings (9.8 SO/9.0 IP), walked 13 batters (3.0 BB/9.0 IP) and surrendered just one home run along the way. His 1.86 ERA was a career-best and...
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Corbin changes things up, rebounds after rocky start to set tone

Corbin changes things up, rebounds after rocky start to set tone
JUPITER, Fla. - Take away the first five Cardinals batters faced by Nationals pitching - all reaching base via hit, erasing a 2-0 deficit - and Davey Martinez would have spent his postgame press briefing talking about a day filled with dominant mound efforts. As it was, the Nationals were still pretty good - even starter Patrick Corbin, whose brief struggle with locating his fastball in the first inning allowed the Cardinals to take the lead for good in a game that breezed by in 2 hours, 19...
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Back in D.C., Adams relishes role as a clubhouse leader

Back in D.C., Adams relishes role as a clubhouse leader
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Matt Adams isn't sure how many offers his agent fielded this offseason. When all was said and done, there was really only one place Adams wanted to go. "I wanted to come back here," said Adams, who re-signed with the Nationals on Dec. 18. "How quickly they reached out to my agent and presented the offer, there was mutual interest on both sides." Most players who signed with a team the previous offseason only to be caught in a trade-deadline roster purge would cross...
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Read, Bourque are among Nats' first spring cuts (Cards win 3-2)

Read, Bourque are among Nats' first spring cuts (Cards win 3-2)
JUPITER, Fla. - The Nationals made their first cuts of camp this morning, and there were no real surprises among the seven players trimmed from the spring roster. Catcher Raudy Read was optioned to Triple-A Fresno, while right-hander James Bourque was optioned to Double-A Harrisburg. Five other players were reassigned to minor league camp: right-handers Ronald Peña and Wil Crowe, first baseman-outfielder José Marmolejos, catcher Tres Barrera and outfielder Chuck Taylor. "Just go down and...
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Starting lineups: Nats vs. Cardinals in Jupiter

Starting lineups: Nats vs. Cardinals in Jupiter
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Patrick Corbin, who signed a six-year, $140 million deal with the Nationals in the offseason, has come as advertised. The southpaw makes his third Grapefruit League start this afternoon against the Cardinals in Jupiter, and he's yet to allow an earned run over five innings. In two outings, Corbin has surrendered three hits, hasn't walked a batter and has struck out three. Victor Robles is leading off and playing center field for the Nationals today, with Matt Adams at...
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Strasburg labors early, then goes longer than expected in 6-4 win

Strasburg labors early, then goes longer than expected in 6-4 win
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Stephen Strasburg expected to pitch three innings today. That was the plan. Three times up and down. And when he extended himself with a 27-pitch first inning against the Mets, he had little room for error if he was going to reach his goal. So imagine the right-hander's surprise when he got to the dugout after working three innings and throwing 48 pitches when he was told he was going back out for the fourth inning. "They just told me I had eight to 10 more pitches, so...
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Hard-throwing Rainey trying to slow things down

Hard-throwing Rainey trying to slow things down
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Velocity has been Tanner Rainey's calling card. Pitchers capable of throwing 100 mph tend to get noticed, and it was the right-hander's radar gun readings that made him attractive to the Nationals, who swapped righty Tanner Roark to the Reds at the Winter Meetings to acquire him. So why is Rainey spending spring training trying to slow things down? Like most hard throwers, Rainey has trouble repeating his mechanics. And when that happens, he tends to get a little out...
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MRI shows Kendrick has hamstring strain (Nats win 6-4)

MRI shows Kendrick has hamstring strain (Nats win 6-4)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An MRI on Howie Kendrick's left hamstring confirmed the original diagnosis of a strain, and Nationals manager Davey Martinez is hopeful the versatile veteran can rehabilitate the injury and be ready for opening day. "MRI came back and it's what they expected, a mild strain," Martinez said. "He's going to be day to day. It'll probably take him a little bit to get going again." Kendrick sustained the injury running out an RBI infield single in the first inning of...
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Starting lineups: Nats vs. Mets in West Palm Beach

Starting lineups: Nats vs. Mets in West Palm Beach
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - For a spring training game, we've got a pretty nice pitching matchup in today's Grapefruit League battle between the Nationals and Mets at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. Right-hander Stephen Strasburg makes his second spring start for the Nats and will be opposed by Mets righty Jacob deGrom. Manager Davey Martinez hopes to get Strasburg up and down three times, which should leave him at a pitch count around 50 for today's assignment. In his first spring start...
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Work ethic getting Kieboom noticed in first major league camp

Work ethic getting Kieboom noticed in first major league camp
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - It's 8:20 a.m. on a sweltering March morning, not a hint of breeze to cool the baking sun and the temperatures on their way into the upper 80s. Carter Kieboom grabs a bat out of his locker stall, checks the morning hitting assignments and pops out of the back clubhouse door at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. While some of his Nationals teammates are still getting dressed or chowing down in the cafeteria, Kieboom immerses himself in a round of batting practice. A...
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Where the center field battle between Robles and Taylor stands

Where the center field battle between Robles and Taylor stands
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - As spring training competitions go, the center field battle between veteran Michael A. Taylor and top prospect Victor Robles in Nationals camp is a doozy. And with a little more than two weeks left in camp, there's no clear-cut leader. If all things were equal, the Nationals would seem to prefer that Robles, 21, seize the opportunity. If not for a gruesome elbow injury sustained making a diving play for Triple-A Syracuse in April, he might have been the one who got the...
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Kendrick and Scherzer shake off missteps in 8-4 defeat

Kendrick and Scherzer shake off missteps in 8-4 defeat
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Spring training inevitably contains missteps and injuries. The Nationals had been lucky enough to avoid both - until today. Their 8-4 loss Tuesday afternoon didn't hurt as much watching Howie Kendrick pull up lame and limp back to the dugout with a left hamstring strain in the third inning or seeing Max Scherzer labor against a Red Sox lineup populated mostly with bench players and minor leaguers making the three-hour drive from Fort Myers. Luckily, neither issue seems...
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Miller's injury muddles middle relief for Nats (Nats lose 8-4)

Miller's injury muddles middle relief for Nats (Nats lose 8-4)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Right now, the strained lower back muscle that's sidelined right-hander Justin Miller has been treated like a minor injury. But it's one that could have major ramifications for the Nationals bullpen. Miller complained about the problem, which delayed his spring debut until Saturday. And after pitching an inning against the Twins, he still had a problem with lower back soreness. The Nationals shut him down, sent him for an MRI and discovered the muscle strain. Today,...
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Starting lineups: Nationals vs. Red Sox in West Palm Beach

Starting lineups: Nationals vs. Red Sox in West Palm Beach
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - You'll notice something a little different today about the starting lineup for the Nationals in their game on MASN against the Red Sox. Max Scherzer is pitching. But for the first time this season, he'll also wield a bat in anger, becoming the first Nats pitcher to hit in a game. Up until this point, the Nats have employed a designated hitter while the pitchers concentrated on, well, pitching. Scherzer is no slouch with the bat, slashing .194/.227/.220 for his career....
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Hellickson working on slider, quick-pitch delivery

Hellickson working on slider, quick-pitch delivery
JUPITER, Fla. - Right-hander Jeremy Hellickson is embracing the notion that spring training is a time to test out new things. One he's growing pretty comfortable with, the other remains a work in progress. During his three-inning stint this afternoon in a 9-8 loss to the Marlins, Hellickson got more comfortable with a quick-pitch windup designed to keep hitters used to his more deliberate delivery a little more off-balance. He also threw broke out a new offering - a slider he's been thinking...
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Now that he trusts fastball, Bourque must focus on commanding it

Now that he trusts fastball, Bourque must focus on commanding it
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - James Bourque's epiphany came in fall instructional league when the Nationals devised a plan to force him to learn to trust his fastball. "They took the breaking ball away from me," he said. "They said they wanted to see just fastball/changeup." When minor league pitching coordinator Paul Menhart delivered the news, Bourque wasn't sure what to make of it. "The pitching coordinator called it my 'Linus blanket' and took that away from me," Bourque said. "For me,...
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Martinez on rotation depth, Doolittle, Miller (Nats lose 9-8)

Martinez on rotation depth, Doolittle, Miller (Nats lose 9-8)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Everyone knows the Nationals have a powerful starting rotation - so long as the top five starting pitchers remain healthy. But what about the rotation depth? Manager Davey Martinez likes what he sees so far, and thinks there are enough pitchers to form a decent starting five at Triple-A Fresno plus back up the rotation in D.C. "I like where we're at right now," Martinez said Monday morning before departing for the Grapefruit League game in Jupiter against the Marlins....
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