Moments That Mattered: Gio Keeps Dealing, Bryce Keeps Mashing
Source: FanGraphs While the Nationals’ offense may be struggling mightily, they don’t need much of it when the starters pitch like Gio Gonzalez did today. He locked the Giants down into the…Read More
Nothing Changes, But Nats Beat Giants In Extras, 2-1
Today’s game and yesterday’s were 99% similar. A close, low-scoring game went to extras. But the Nats won this one, so turn the narrative around! Bryce Harper hit his 12th home run of the season,…Read More
Moments That Mattered: Without Offense, Bullpen Squanders Strasburg’s Excellence
Source: FanGraphs When the Nationals scored two runs in the top of the first and had yet to put their ace, Stephen Strasburg, out on the mound, things were looking pretty good for the Nats to take the…Read More
Moments That Mattered: Nothing Really Matters, Anyone Can See
Source: FanGraphs Today’s two starters both had ERAs above eight. Of course, the Nats’ starter let up four runs in 3.1 innings, while the Giants’ starter threw five scoreless innings…Read More
Road Trip of Doom Continues, Giants Blank Nats
Before Monday’s series opener at AT&T Park, the Washington Nationals and San Francisco Giants could be described as having similar 2013 seasons — not bad, but we expected more. After Monday…Read More
Moments That Mattered: Hitting Surprises, But Pitching Does Too
Source: FanGraphs In today’s lineups post, I said: “Tonight’s lineup doesn’t…Read More
Moments That Mattered: No Offense, But…
Source: FanGraphs So can Bryce Harper and Jayson Werth be healthy already? This one was contentious…Read More
Moments That Mattered: A Heaping Helping Of Homers
Source: FanGraphs If this WPA graph were a rollercoaster, you’d throw up. If you watched the game,…Read More
Moments That Mattered: LaRoche Keeps On Truckin’
Source: FanGraphs Scoring six runs makes any game feel pretty good. Having your ace starter go eight…Read More
Harper And Strasburg Make Their Presences Felt In Win Over Padres
In San Diego, one anchorman pitcher was more man than the rest, and his name was Stephen Strasburg. He…Read More
Moments That Mattered: *Exasperated Groan*
Source: FanGraphs The story of this game was missed offensive opportunities. See that massive spike…Read More
Walking Wounded Nats Drop Series Finale in L.A.
It’s been a rare day this season that the Washington Nationals have been able to field a fully…Read More
Moments That Mattered: Kershaw Mows Down Hapless Nats Bats
Source: FanGraphs Any game when you have your AAA starting outfield going against a former NL Cy Young…Read More
Moments That Mattered: Offense Sputters To Life Early
Source: FanGraphs The cure for any poor performance is another team performing poorly. The Dodgers were…Read More
Moments That Mattered: Gonzalez Returns To Form, Bullpen Doesn’t
Source: FanGraphs It looked good for seven innings, kind of. The offense managed only one run, pathetic…Read More
Moments That Mattered: No One Does Much Of Anything Too Well
Source: FanGraphs Today’s game was not good. Read the regular recap to get the gritty, gruesome…Read More
Strasburg Falls Apart As Cubs Wallop Nats, 8-2
Someone check the calendar: this looked more like the April Nats than the vastly improved May version. An…Read More
Moments That Mattered: Desi Does It
Source: FanGraphs Unfortunately, tonight’s game did not end with the now-patented Rafael Soriano/Nationals…Read More
Desmond Picks Up the Slack in Nats’ 5th Straight Win
It would be folly for a baseball fan to assume their team could possibly make it through a full season…Read More
Moments That Mattered: The Heart Of The Order Beats Strong
Source: FanGraphs With the exception of one small mistake, all phases of the game were great for the…Read More






















