The amount of tinkering theWashingtonNationals have had to do to get to this point - to earn a road victory that required nothing more than a simple, clean effort - is almost unfathomable. Submitted on: 2009-05-01 |  |  |
ATLANTA - In three pristine nights at less-than-half-filled Turner Field, theCardinals had two shortstops and one extra-base hit drop. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |  | |
IT STARTED like so many times before: a three-run deficit in the eighth inning, then a walk, a lineout, a fielder's choice, another walk, and then that familiar sound of anticipation as Matt Stairs walked to the plate representing the tying run. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |  | |
The Nationals avoided a sweep with an 8-1 win over the Mets on Sunday, but they have continued to struggle with the same issues that led them to 13 losses in their first 16 games this season. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |  | |
The Nationals made another attempt to solidify their reeling bullpen late Tuesday night, acquiring right-handed reliever Logan Kensing from the Florida Marlins for Kyle Gunderson, their 48th-round draft pick in 2007. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |  | |
--RHP Saul Rivera remained with the Nationals on Wednesday after the team added RHP Logan Kensing in a trade with the Marlins late Tuesday night. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |  | |
Finally, everything was going smoothly for Cole Hamels. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |  | |
The Washington Nationals have played better since their disastrous start, but they're still entrenched in the NL East cellar. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 |  | |
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All the Washington Nationals needed to do to protect a lead was give the ball to a reliever who hadn't saved a game in three years. Submitted on: 2009-04-30 | | |
IT WAS ONE of those situations that you might have joked about before the game, given the tough luck Cole Hamels has endured throughout the first 3 weeks of this 2009 season. Submitted on: 2009-04-29 | | |
FIRST IT WAS elbow inflammation in spring training. Submitted on: 2009-04-29 | | |
The Nationals avoided a sweep with an 8-1 win over the Mets on Sunday, but they have continued to struggle with the same issues that led them to 13 losses in their first 16 games this season. Submitted on: 2009-04-29 | | |
The Nationals bullpen has a new configuration, for the third time in as many weeks. Submitted on: 2009-04-29 | | |
--SS Alberto Gonzalez made his sixth error of the season in Tuesday's 7-1 loss to the Phillies. Submitted on: 2009-04-29 | | |
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