For the fourth time this season, Livan Hernandez put the Nationals on his back and carried them late into the game.
By doing that, he gave them a chance to earn a victory.
With early run support, Washington was able to do just that as they defeated the Cubs 3-1 and nipped a one game losing streak in the bud.
Throughout baseball, the aces of pitching staff's are called stoppers.
They are the pitchers who managers, general managers and fans feel comfortable putting in every fifth day to make sure that no losing streak gets out of control.
That's exactly what Livan did for the ...
Over at Federal Baseball they have a great collection of stories which look into just exactly how good the Nationals are.
It's a useful debate, especially considering the fact that many outlets predicted the Nationals to finish, at best, fourth in the National League East. Starting this week, we will be looking at the shape of the National League playoff race every Monday with the help of Accuscore.
As you can see below, the Nationals 4-3 record last week helped them improve their playoff chances from 7.8 percent to 13.9 percent. Accuscore also projects that they have a 9.3 percent chance ...
To help preview the coming series against the Chicago Cubs, we sat down with Joe Aeillo from an outstanding Cubs blog, View From The Bleachers . Go check out their site, they do some really cool stuff over there. I also prepared a short preview for them which I will post here once it gets put up. Anyways, Joe and I talked about Riggleman, Strasburg, Zambrano, and getting the Cubs back to the World Series.
The Nats Blog: Can this team as it stands make it back to the post season and compete for that elusive World Series title? ...
Each year, general managers from across the league come together and meet in one place and talk hardcore baseball: the Winter Meetings. It's the Black Friday of baseball's shopping season, and the springboard that leads into MLB's Hot Stove offseason. The meetings wrapped up last week and to review the action, The Nats Blog is going to get reviews from top blogs across the league. Today will be the NL Central, and here will be the schedule for the rest of the week:
12/17-NL West, 12/18-AL East, 12/19-AL Central, 12/20 AL West
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The Nationals took the field in Washington Thursday night with a clean slate. Their only goal; have a better second half than first.
Defensive gaffs were one of the main ills of the first half for the Nationals. Whether it be Adam Dunn’s poor ball reading ability, Cristian Guzman’s disgustingly bad range, or Ryan Zimmerman’s mysterious throwing problems, errors took the Nats out of many games they couldn’t afford to lose.
Last night the problem continued as the Nationals had two errors and allowed three unearned runs last night en route to a 6-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs.
So much for a ...
