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Opening-Day storm rages

A lot of people remain quite upset about what happened at Nats opening day. With a stadium oversold with groups of the other team’s fans–who happen to be legendary as some of the worst fans in...

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Update: Stan Kasten’s officially clueless

Adam Kilgore prints his entire email exchange with Kasten in the Nationals Journal.

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Thank you, Mark Zuckerman

The Philly-Phan disaster of the Nationals’ Opening Day still has Nats fans boiling, but there’s baseball tonight. The Nats have a second chance, this time against a pitcher who struggled at the end of...

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Can anybody here pitch?

With the Nats’ 8-2 loss to the Mets on Friday, the Nationals are now 1-3 for the first week of the season. A lot of people have talked this week about the Nats’ (or individual players’) paces so far....

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Lannan-Clippard-Capps

Made it happen against the Mets today. 4-3 Nats. Lannan: 5 IP, 3 ER, 3 BB, 2K. But Clippard! 3 IP, 7 K, nothing else! Capps saved it after walking two to load the bases, but Harris saved Capps by...

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So that’s what .500 feels like

The Nats just beat the Mets 5-2. Took the series in New York two games to one. Jim Riggleman actually made the umpires video-review a home run, so Josh Willingham got his first grand slam of the year....

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“NATIONALS PARK” naming rights?

The rock wall behind home plate tells the world that this is NATIONALS PARK. This is new. For the first two years of the stadium the granite was plain and classy, and the identity of the stadium was...

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Baseball’s incredible Saturday

As I write this, the Cardinals and the Mets are locked in a scoreless battle in the bottom of the 18th inning. St. Louis just had Felipe Lopez on the mound. FLop walked Angel Pagan, but otherwise got...

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Caring about the standings

With their 2-0 loss to the Rockies yesterday, the Nationals continue to hold onto a .500 record halfway through the third week of the season. Across Nats Nation, fans have been thrilled to be out of...

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Nats in second place–what year is it?

The Nationals ended April at 13-10. They have never had an April record this good in DC. Ever. Their 2005 April record was 13-11. At that time they were in third place in the division, two games behind...

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On the roller coaster

It’s June 1, and the Nats are 26-26. After a major beat-down of the Astros on Memorial Day, 14-4, they are 3.5 games behind division-leading Atlanta in the NL East. (Of course, anti-Nats could point...

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Strasburg’s debut: Now that was something!

So the Strasburg era has begun. Just one day shy of a year after he was drafted, Stephen Strasburg took the mound for the Nationals last night against the Pirates. Nationals Park was packed (although I...

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