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Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ series opener with the Pirates in PNC Park... IRVIN IN SEPTEMBER: August was the cruelest month for Jake Irvin so far (6.61 ERA, 6.25 FIP, .316/.368/.571 line against in six starts and 32 2⁄3 innings pitched) with the 27-year-old, 2018 Nationals’ 4th Round pick not able to reproduce the numbers he’d put up over the first four months of the … [Read more...] about Washington Nationals news & notes: Jake Irvin struggles in PNC; Nats drop opener with Pirates, 9-4…

Notes and quotes on another positive MacKenzie Gore start and the first Nationals’ loss of the season to the Marlins... MORE LIKE FLOR- GORE-IDA: In his second straight solid outing, after a long stretch of less-than-stellar starts, 25-year-old lefty MacKenzie Gore put together a six-inning, two-run, 102-pitch turn in the Washington Nationals’ rotation in D.C. last week in … [Read more...] about Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats lose first game of 2024 to Marlins; MacKenzie Gore solid again…

Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ series opening win over the Marlins... CORBIN DOES IT AGAIN; NOT THAT “IT”: Patrick Corbin earned Ws in just two of his first 25 starts this season, posting a 5.92 ERA, a 4.58 FIP, and a .311/.361/.505 line against in 135 1⁄3 innings pitched in those outings. Coming off his win against the New York’s Yankees last week, however, Corbin had … [Read more...] about Washington Nationals news & notes: Patrick Corbin & Nats beat Marlins; Nationals 8-0 vs Fish in 2024…

Notes and quotes after an off-day for the Nationals, who take on the Marlins in Miami tonight... (BRICK-see): Zach Brzykcy didn’t get nearly as much attention as the other September call-up added to the Washington Nationals’ roster on Sunday, but his rise to the majors is just as good a story as Darren Baker’s (minus the future Hall of Fame father, and a World Series moment no … [Read more...] about Washington Nationals news & notes: Zach Brzykcy struggles in MLB debut; after long road to majors…

Notes and quotes on Darren Baker’s MLB debut ... 56-ish years after his father Dusty Baker’s... Washington’s Nationals drafted Darren Baker out of high school in 2017, but he opted to go to college at the University of California, Berkeley, then they drafted him again, taking the son of former Nationals’ skipper Dusty Baker in the 10th Round in 2021 and signing him the second … [Read more...] about Washington Nationals news & notes: Darren Baker makes MLB debut with Dusty Baker in D.C.