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Nats to host Yankees in nationally televised MLB opener

July 06, 2020, 1:32pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Nats to host Yankees in nationally televised MLB opener

Major League Baseball's attempt to play the 2020 season will begin at Nationals Park with a nationally televised matchup between the reigning World Series champions and the sport's most storied franchise. The Nationals will host the Yankees on July 23 at 7:08 p.m., the first half of an opening night doubleheader on ESPN that - if successfully pulled off - will serve as the highly anticipated return of major professional team sports in America. MLB's shortened, 60-game planned schedule, which...

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How many games are needed for a legitimate season?

May 05, 2020, 8:22pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

How many games are needed for a legitimate season?

We still don't know when - or if - the 2020 Major League Baseball season will begin. We do know it won't be a full, 162-game season, though. Even in a best-case scenario, there's just not enough time to play all 162, not without extending the regular season deep into December and the World Series beyond New Year's Day. That's not happening. So if they play in 2020, it's going to be a shortened season. Which is not unprecedented in MLB history, given past labor disputes. But how many games...

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Schedule design could have big effect on eventual season

April 19, 2020, 6:48pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Schedule design could have big effect on eventual season

We don't talk about the schedule much in baseball, because it really doesn't matter all that much under normal circumstances. During the course of a 162-game season, every team in the majors is going to play every other team in its division 19 times, every team in its league's two other divisions six or seven times and then 20 interleague games. Sure, teams in tougher divisions - and those that play the toughest division in interleague play - have a little bit of a disadvantage. But rarely...

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Nats to open 2020 at Mets, will face entire AL West

August 12, 2019, 8:58am

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals Orioles

Nats to open 2020 at Mets, will face entire AL West

The Nationals just completed a high-intensity series at Citi Field, and now they already have to start looking ahead to their next trip to Queens - in March. Major League Baseball unveiled its 2020 schedule this afternoon, never mind the fact there are still seven weeks remaining in the highly compelling 2019 season, and it features the earliest opening day in history: March 26. All 30 clubs will be in action on that Thursday, with the Nationals opening up on the road against the Mets for a...

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Nationals' 2019 spring training schedule released

August 29, 2018, 8:54am

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

There are 4 1/2 weeks to go in the 2018 regular season, not to mention a month's worth of postseason games for those franchises fortunate enough to advance, but Major League Baseball has already unveiled the entire 2019 schedule, including spring training now. MLB released the Grapefruit League and Cactus League schedules this afternoon, far earlier than has been typical in previous years. It's perhaps appropriate, then, that the spring schedule will start and conclude early as well. With...

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Nats selected for three early-season Sunday night games

December 26, 2017, 6:33pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Nats selected for three early-season Sunday night games

Catching up on more news during my vacation last week, I see that ESPN unveiled roughly one-half of its "Sunday Night Baseball" slate for the 2018 season. And lo and behold, the Nationals are actually prominently featured in a manner we haven't seen before by the Worldwide Leader in Sports. The Nats were selected to play in three of the first seven "Sunday Night Baseball" games of the season, including the April 8 finale of their opening home series against the Mets. They'll also appear...

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Orioles set home game times with earlier Sunday starts

November 30, 2017, 10:10am

Roch Kubatko

Orioles

The Orioles have announced start times for their 2018 home schedule, and folks attending Sunday games at Camden Yards are going to have to adjust their schedules. Sunday games will now begin at 1:05 p.m., a change from the previous 1:35 p.m. start time. Though games will start a half-hour earlier, Sundays will still be family days at the ballpark, which means fans ages 4-14 will be able to participate in a postgame Kids Run The Bases event, sponsored by Weis Markets. The Orioles will begin the...

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Start times announced for NLDS Games 1 and 2

October 01, 2017, 6:28pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Start times announced for NLDS Games 1 and 2

The Cubs are the biggest national television draw in baseball right now, so it stood to reason the Nationals would find themselves playing in primetime throughout their first-round postseason showdown with the defending World Series champs. That will be true for Game 1 of the National League Division Series, but the presence of the West Coast's biggest draw in the other half of the bracket is going to lead to an early-evening start on South Capitol Street for Game 2. Major League Baseball...

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With rain in forecast, Nats move Thursday's game up to 12:05 p.m.

May 24, 2017, 1:10pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

With rain in forecast, Nats move Thursday's game up to 12:05 p.m.

Faced with an ominous forecast, the Nationals are moving up the start time of Thursday's game to 12:05 p.m., hoping to get their series finale with the Mariners in before the worst of the expected rain arrives in the area. It's a highly unusual move for a franchise that rarely, if ever, makes weather-related decisions that far in advance. But there were several factors at play in this case that may have made it necessary. Thursday's forecast calls for morning rain, then a midday break before...

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Nats release schedule for inaugural spring in West Palm Beach

November 07, 2016, 6:36am

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Nats release schedule for inaugural spring in West Palm Beach

For the last 12 years, while they trained in remote Viera, the Nationals were forced to criss-cross the state of Florida each spring, with every Grapefruit League road game a minimum one hour's drive away. That all changes next spring, in a dramatic way: The Nationals will play 28 of their 33 exhibition games within a 15-minute drive of their new ballpark in West Palm Beach, with only two games more than 45 minutes away. The 2017 spring training schedule was announced today, and it offers...

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Orioles release 2017 schedule

September 13, 2016, 9:24pm

Roch Kubatko

Orioles

BOSTON - The Orioles travel to Cincinnati in April and Milwaukee in July as part of their 2017 schedule, which was released this afternoon. The interleague portion also includes two games against the Pirates at Camden Yards on June 6-7 and two games in Pittsburgh on Sept. 26-27 on the final road trip of the regular season. The Orioles travel to Milwaukee for games on July 3-5. The Cardinals come to Camden Yards on June 16-18 and the Cubs play a three-game series at Camden Yards on July 14-16,...