Jan 04
To Washington Senators team owner Bob Short and team vice-president Joe Burke, Jim French was a triple-A catcher at best, but the team’s manager disagreed. “He does a darn good job at handling pitchers and gets the ball away fast,” said Ted Williams. “The runners don’t go hog-crazy on him.” Williams also added that in …
Oct 19
Of the thousands of baseball players who have heard the mocking bird sing, only one knew that a bright, joyful, clever mocking bird was singing just to him. When this began to happen, Dave Baldwin’s baseball career took flight. I watched Mr. Baldwin work as a major league relief pitcher, know he has a Ph.D …
Sep 28
How did it come to this? Six months after after Bryce Harper essentially called out a World Series championship in the preseason, the Washington Nationals were eliminated from postseason contention with more than a week to play. Despite Harper’s MVP-caliber season and Max Scherzer‘s Cy Young-caliber first half, the defending National League East champions haven’t …
Aug 01
August 1st 2011 – WASHINGTON — Rick Ankiel’s two homers lead the Nationals (52-56) over the Braves (63-47) by the score of 5-2. Ankiel, led off the bottom of the first with a homer to center field, and hit another homer in the fifth inning to deep in the second deck in left field. It …
Jul 20
It was a frustrating, weekend of dormant offense for the Nationals against Dodgers aces Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke, who combined to hold the Nats scoreless for 18 innings, striking out out 25 batters. Amid all the whiffs and groundouts, however, the Nats did get a key bit of good news: Injured stars Jayson Werth, …
Jun 26
Washington Senators 5, Philadelphia Athletics 0 (1) Day Game Played on Thursday, June 26, 1924 (D) at Griffith Stadium PHI A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 8 0 WAS A 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 x – 5 7 0 BATTING Philadelphia Athletics AB R H …
Jun 15
A banged-up, scuffling Nationals team has gotten up off the mat to win back-to-back games for the first time in almost three weeks and stay within spitting distance of the equally banged-up and scuffling New York Mets in the National League East. Now it’s time for general manager Mike Rizzo to show us what he …
May 26
Perhaps the greatest relief pitcher that the old Washington Nationals ever sent out to rescue the game was Firpo Marberry. Forty-five years before the “Save” became part of baseball nomenclature, Firpo was saving some of the most important games in DC Baseball history. In 1924, Marbery recorded 15 Saves in a season in which he …
May 07
Frank Howard was Washington, DC’s most prodigious home run hitter, leading the American League in long balls in both 1968 and 1970, but his best year was 1969 when he hit 48, though he finished second to Harmon Killibrew that season who hit 49 to lead the Majors. When Bryce Harper hit three home runs …
