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Throwback Thursday: Walk this way

Throwback Thursday: Walk this way
When it comes to memorable moments, walk-offs take the cake. The game is decided by one swing. The dugout clears to ambush the hero. The hometown crowd jumps to its feet in excitement. What more could you want? With the game tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the ninth, Ryan Zimmerman brought us this memorable moment. Watch the walk-off below and make sure to check back every Thursday to catch more great performances from the 2013 season. Your browser does not support iframes.
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Throwback Thursday: Making diving grabs look routine

Throwback Thursday: Making diving grabs look routine
Denard Span made play after play in center field last season, finishing 2013 without committing an error to give him a chance to win his first Gold Glove. I'm sure we'll see Span featured on Throwback Thursday again this offseason, but for now, watch the center fielder make a diving grab look routine. Your browser does not support iframes.
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Throwback Thursday: Beginning with back-to-back blasts

Throwback Thursday: Beginning with back-to-back blasts
This offseason holds a lot of questions for the Nationals. Who will be the Nats' new skipper? What will the starting rotation look like? Will their lineup stay the same? But before we look ahead, let's take time to relive some of the best moments of this past season. Every Thursday, we'll be throwin' it back to an amazing play from the Nats' 2013 season. Let's take it back to the beginning, shall we? Bryce Harper started the season with a bang. In fact, he started it with two. In...
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Zimmerman-Ripken conversation featured at Dec. 4 event

Zimmerman-Ripken conversation featured at Dec. 4 event
Offseason baseball events have come a long way since the rubber chicken awards dinners of winters past. Mark your calendars now for Wednesday, Dec. 4 - that's the night when the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation will host "The Hot Corner: A Conversation of Baseball Greats" at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event will feature an intimate conversation between Cal Ripken Jr., the longtime Orioles third baseman who was enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007, and...
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Patrick Reddington: Davey Johnson, Stephen Strasburg and Beijing In 2008

Patrick Reddington: Davey Johnson, Stephen Strasburg and Beijing In 2008
Davey Johnson was especially blunt in his assessment of 25-year-old right-hander Stephen Strasburg's last outing. Washington's 2009 No. 1 overall pick gave up six hits and three runs in six innings of work in which he struck out six and threw 109 pitches to the Miami Marlins. "He was actually awful," Johnson told reporters after the start. "He was. I mean, every pitch he threw was up. He's got such great stuff, but everything was belt-high. I grew to love him when he pitched for me in...
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Rachel Levitin: September subject to change

Rachel Levitin: September subject to change
The past three September in D.C. have felt completely different. September 2011 was a quiet time. The Nationals went 80-81 that year, which was an improvement on all the seasons prior. The 2012 season was the most successful season played by this incarnation of D.C. baseball since the Nats' inaugural year in 2005. Despite a short-lived playoff run, the Nats entered the offseason as National League East champions for the first time. And in 2013, well, high expectations were met with somewhat...
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David Huzzard: As potential free agent, Yankees' Girardi a tempting option

David Huzzard: As potential free agent, Yankees' Girardi a tempting option
This is a tale of two teams. One has an average age of 27.8 and the other 31.8. One has a solid young core composed of a 20-year-old former Rookie of the Year outfielder with back-to-back 20-homer seasons, a young pitching staff with three top-of-the rotation starters who are finishing the season with a 3.50 ERA or lower, a converted third baseman playing second who has slashed line drives all over the park since being recalled, and veterans in a third baseman that always seems to be an .800...
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Ted Leavengood: It all goes back to Zimmerman

Ted Leavengood: It all goes back to Zimmerman
There are landmark moments that stand like Mount Rushmore looking down upon the crowd of gameday events that have transpired since the first pitch was thrown out at RFK Stadium in 2005. There was Jayson Werth's walk-off home run to send the Nationals to a Game 5 in the 2012 National League Division Series, Stephen Strasburg's 14-strikeout debut in 2010 and maybe Bryce Harper's breakout game against the Phillies when he stole home. But the launch date for the current Nationals team happened...
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Dave Nichols: Disappointing campaign ends on hopeful note

Dave Nichols: Disappointing campaign ends on hopeful note
Well, here we are. The final week of the 2013 regular season. It's been a fascinating but ultimately disappointing season. Unless the Nationals manage to win out this week and get an extraordinarily well-timed losing streak by either the Reds or Pirates, the Nats' season will come to an end without reaching the playoffs. It's funny, if the Nats had finished a couple of games out of the playoffs last season as they will this one, it would not have been particularly disappointing. Rather,...
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Nineteen wins means double the celebration

Nineteen wins means double the celebration
Jordan Zimmermann showed no mercy against the Marlins on Friday night. He opened the game with 5 2/3 hitless innings and finished his night by surrendering just two hits in a complete-game shutout. With his 19th win of the season, Zimmermann temporarily tied Max Scherzer for the most wins in the majors. So how exactly did the Nationals congratulate the National League leader in wins? Did they shower him in Gatorade or smash a shaving cream pie in his face? Why not do both? Read more about...
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Patrick Reddington: Streaking in D.C.

Patrick Reddington: Streaking in D.C.
Denard Span struck out in his seventh-inning at-bat against Miami right-hander A.J. Ramos on Thursday night, leaving him 0-for-4 in the series finale with the Marlins. Span was three spots away from another at-bat when Wilson Ramos lined out to end the bottom of the eighth. Rafael Soriano pitched a scoreless top of the ninth for the Nationals to earn his 42nd save in the Nats' 82nd win of the year, so Span never got another at-bat and his 29-game hit streak came to an end. Over the course of...
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Rachel Levitin: September baseball is family time

Rachel Levitin: September baseball is family time
For just a few minutes (or at least while you read this blog post) let's try and forget that the openly-hyped 2013 Nationals are 5 1/2 games behind the Reds for the second National League wild card. Instead, I'd like to give my two cents on September baseball. It's the end of summer and the start of the school year come September. Fall is here, even in D.C., and the conversation I had with my buddy Tom on Tuesday helped cement in my mind something that I've already felt to be true for...
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David Huzzard: The Nationals' place in D.C. baseball history

David Huzzard: The Nationals' place in D.C. baseball history
According to the modern baseball catalog of knowledge, Baseball Reference, the official major league history of Washington baseball began in 1884 with the Washington Nationals and the Washington Statesmen playing that season. The Nationals finished with a record of 47-65 and the Statesmen were 12-51. That would turn out to be a fitting beginning to Washington baseball history. There would be two more defunct franchises and neither of them would have a winning season, and then in 1901 Ban...
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Nationals pay tribute to Navy Yard tragedy

Nationals pay tribute to Navy Yard tragedy
A day ago, innocent lives were lost at the Navy Yard just up the street from Nationals Park. Today, the Nationals honored those affected by the tragedy by wearing U.S. Navy hats during batting practice. Before the Braves and Nats took the field for Game 1 of their doubleheader, Nationals Park held a moment of silence to honor those at the Naval Yard. The Nationals lined up along the dugout, paying their respects while holding their Navy hats against their chests. Your browser does not...
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Ted Leavengood: Keeping our Navy Yard neighbors in our prayers

Ted Leavengood: Keeping our Navy Yard neighbors in our prayers
Events like those that transpired at the Navy Yard yesterday seem to plague our country with disturbing frequency. It is unfortunate that they happen at all, or that they happen in any neighborhood or any work place. But they came home yesterday to the Navy Yard, part of the neighborhood around Nationals Park. The most exciting thing happening Monday should have been the Braves series about to begin, but unspeakable tragedy intervened. The Navy Yard begins just across 1st Street from Nationals...
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Dave Nichols: No room for error

Dave Nichols: No room for error
It's come to this for the Nationals. They have 13 games to play in the regular season and trail the Reds by 4 1/2 games for the final wild card spot. They are close enough to taste it, yet still far enough out that they aren't much more than a mathematical possibility at this point. It's excruciating to think that if the Nats had managed to play the Braves evenly this season, this would be a completely different discussion. The Nats are 4-12 against the Braves. If they'd gone 8-8, well,...
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Video: Nats fan's legacy impacts D.C. community

Video: Nats fan's legacy impacts D.C. community
For me, baseball is so much more than a job or a sport that I enjoy. Of the many memories I have from watching baseball, some of the best include ones bonding with my dad or the conversations I had with friends while watching a game. About a month ago, Dan Kolko introduced us to a story of Richard and Kent Wilson, a father and son who bonded over Nationals games while Richard was battling cancer. After Richard lost his battle, Kent touched the D.C. community by giving away their season...
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Patrick Reddington: Ross Detwiler's lost season

Patrick Reddington: Ross Detwiler's lost season
When Stan Kasten was the Washington Nationals' president, before the former Atlanta Braves president left the nation's capital and became president and co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he shared an anecdote with reporters about a phone call from retired, legendary Braves manager Bobby Cox, who had called him after watching Ross Detwiler pitch. "This is unbelieveable, this is the exact way we did it." Cox told Kasten, referring to the rotation Atlanta assembled featuring Tom Glavine,...
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Rachel Levitin: Is it too little too late for the Nats?

Rachel Levitin: Is it too little too late for the Nats?
The Nationals are now six games back in the wild card chase behind Cincinnati with 17 games left on the schedule. This is after Wednesday night's 3-0 victory against the New York Mets in which Washington notched its fifth consecutive victory. It's like MASN's Dan Kolko said yesterday: finally, it's all clicking. But is it too late? That's the question facing the Nationals. Offense has been an ongoing issue for Washington throughout the season. Batting coach Rick Eckstein was let go,...
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David Huzzard: The Nationals and international free agents

David Huzzard: The Nationals and international free agents
List the best free agent pick-ups of this past offseason, and it will be difficult to leave off Hyun-jin Ryu or Yasiel Puig. Go back one season earlier and there is an argument to be made that the best free agent signings were once again of non-MLB players in Yoenis Cespedes and Yu Darvish. This offseason, that could be the case once again with rumors of Masahiro Tanaka being posted and Jose Abreu already a free agent. And while the Nationals made a run at Aroldis Chapman, there was never any...
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