WASHINGTON -- The Nationals made an addition to their “ruffster” on Saturday. Bruce the Bat Dog was called up from Triple-A Rochester to make his Major League debut in a pregame bat retrieval ceremony at Nationals Park.

WASHINGTON -- Nearly two months after Paul DeJong experienced a scary injury from being struck in the face by a fastball, he is getting closer to the beginning of a rehab assignment. “I've done just about everything else I needed to do, as far as running and ground balls and

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NEW YORK – The Nationals have been tough to watch lately. Entering Thursday’s action, they scored 15 runs in their last nine games and had a slash line of .194/.236/.294 during that span. “It was chase, chase, chase. [Hitting in] bad counts,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. To make matters

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The Nationals still are evaluating 7-8 players for the No. 1 overall pick, a group that consists of most of the consensus upper-tier of talent: two high school shortstops (Ethan Holliday and Eli Willits), the best of the college arms (lefties Kade Anderson of Louisiana State, Jamie Arnold of Florida

There was a little bit of everything during a productive full slate of Minor League action. Top 100 prospects Chase Burns and Trey Yesavage made good first impressions at new levels while two of the sport's brightest young stars -- JJ Wetherholt and Braden Montgomery -- came through when their

NEW YORK – Nationals manager Dave Martinez is concerned about his team. His team was blanked by the Mets, 5-0, at Citi Field on Wednesday night. The Nationals have lost four straight games and seven of their past nine, and right-hander Jake Irvin has struggled since May 24, when he

Since the Draft began in 1965, there has never been a more difficult year than 2020. The pandemic shutdown ended the college and high school seasons in the second week of March, and some prepsters never even took the field. During the three months leading up to the Draft, teams

NEW YORK – The Nationals’ hitters were in a funk prior to Monday, scoring 11 runs in their past seven games and hitting .183 with 46 strikeouts. According to manager Dave Martinez, the position players have been swinging at a lot of balls out of the strike zone. “We’re getting

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Travis Sykora has heard the comps plenty, and honestly, you could do a lot worse if you tried to build a Nolan Ryan clone in a lab. It isn’t perfect, of course. The 6-foot-6 Sykora has 4 inches on the 6-foot-2 Ryan. The Hall of Famer also

The Nationals have once again tapped into their Minor League system to bring new talent to Nationals Park: the team called up Bruce the Bat Dog from Triple-A Rochester to make his debut on Saturday. They are hoping he'll be Best in The Show. Bruce earned his promotion after posting

WASHINGTON -- Alex Call doesn’t swing for the fences every time he is at the plate. A studious hitter, he has a game plan for each plate appearance. The fact Call had not homered since last Aug. 18, though, had crossed his mind recently.

As the baseball season sprints towards summer, the favorites for the Cy Young Award are starting to distance themselves from the field -- at least, that's the case in MLB.com's latest Cy Young Award poll. Paul Skenes takes over the No. 1 spot in the National League from Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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WASHINGTON -- The Nationals’ outfield has seen several different looks in the past three weeks amid two injuries and two Major League callups.

All spring, we’ve been talking about how the Nationals are looking at a pretty wide array of players to potentially take with the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s Draft. From the get-go, the leader of that group has been Ethan Holliday, son of Matt, brother of Jackson. And

WASHINGTON -- The Nationals returned to Nationals Park after a scoring-fest on their road trip to Seattle and Arizona and tallied a total of six runs in their three-game series against the Cubs this week. The Nats dropped the finale on Thursday night, 7-1, and did not score until there

A busy day and night of offense was led by a grand performance from a Giant slugger, a monstrous clout by an Angel in Salt Lake and sustained excellence across a doubleheader by a 19-year-old Pirate. Of course, it wouldn't be a complete day of Minor League action without a

WASHINGTON -- The Nationals’ lineup had been lefty-heavy as of late because of starting pitching matchups. When the Nats faced Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd on Wednesday, it was an opportunity for manager Dave Martinez to get his righty bats back in the lineup. Right-handers Alex Call and Amed Rosario and

History has a way of repeating itself, but not usually the day later. Unless your name is Carlos De La Cruz. With one out in the bottom of the ninth inning Wednesday, trailing 6-5, the Nationals outfield prospect found himself in the same shoes as the night before for Double-A

The old scouting adage is that big leaguers come from everywhere. Four members of the Draft Class of 2024 have already touched the Major Leagues, with the exciting promotion of Royals first-rounder Jac Caglianone (more on him below) the most recent, joining fellow first-round picks Nick Kurtz and Cam Smith