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#washington-nationals

The Atlanta Braves saw their seven-game winning streak come to an end Sunday with a 6-2 loss to the Washington Nationals.Lack of consistent offensive production and a big five-run inning from Washington would be the main downfalls from the Sunday showdown.The Braves did get off to a solid start in this one offensively as the bats got rolling in the first.

The Atlanta Braves will go for their eighth straight win Sunday afternoon when they wrap up a three-game series against the Washington Nationals.Bryce Elder will get the start for Atlanta while Trevor Williams will get the nod for Washington.Sean Murphy and Eddie Rosario both return to the lineup for Sunday's finale.

The Atlanta Braves pulled off another late-inning comeback to defeat the Washington Nationals 3-2 on Friday night and extend their win streak to six games.Heading into this matchup, AJ Smith-Shawver's first career start was the biggest headline.He ended his night with 5.1 innings under his belt and allowed two runs, none of which were earned.

Oliver Marmol wanted a bagel on Saturday morning.This is New York, so it should have been easy to get one.But this is also 2023, and Marmol manages the St. Louis Cardinals.Nothing comes easily.It didn't work out, Marmol said.The line was outrageous.The door guy at the hotel said to just skip the line and walk in.

John Walton, the radio voice of the Washington Capitals, saw his season of calling NHL games end in mid-April.But he's been become an incredibly busy guy over the last few weeks.Walton, formerly the voice of the Hershey Bears, has traveled with the Capitals' AHL affiliated team cross-country (and sit with peons like me in media row) as the Chocolate and White has made its deep postseason run.

Patrick Corbin allowed two of the Astros' four home runs in Washington's 6-1 loss Tuesday night.(David J. Phillip/AP)Comment Gift Article HOUSTON - Patrick Corbin made just two mistakes Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park.But when a team is struggling offensively as the Washington Nationals are and the defending World Series champions are standing in the way, two mistakes can be tough to overcome.

The Washington Nationals will play in Houston for the first time since game 7 of the 2019 World Series when the Nats became World Champions.Since then, the Nats victory lap was victimized by COVID, and then a painful rebuild while the Astros continued to soar.Baseball cycles will do that.The Nats had nearly 10 years of great baseball, and the Astros are now in year-8 of their winning ways - but they were also part of one of the biggest cheating scandals in baseball history that tainted a lot of that winning.

LaSharm and Willie met by total chance at a car dealership, and after 12 years of dating, Willie popped the question on October 31, 2019 just after the Washington Nationals won the World Series.The pair married in a private ceremony, but then held a "celebration of marriage" on September 24, 2022 at the International Spy Museum.

Jun. 17-TODAY
Legion Baseball
John Hayes Best of the Midwest Tournament at West Vigo High School: Washington (Mo.) vs. Danville Post 210 Speakers, 8 a.m.John Hayes Best of the Midwest Tournament: Danville Post 210 Speakers vs. TBD
Diamond Sports Tournament at EIU: Danville Post 210 Junior Speakers vs. TBD
Prospect League Baseball
Wabash Valley Rex at Danville Dans, 6:30 p.m.
SUNDAY
Legion Baseball
John Hayes Best of the Midwest Tournament at Terre Haute North: Danville Post 210 Speakers vs. TBD
Diamond Sports Tournament at EIU: Danville Post 210 Junior Speakers vs. TBD
Prospect League Baseball
Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp at Danville Dans, doubleheader, 4 p.m.
MONDAY
Prospect League Baseball
Danville Dans at Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp, 7:05 p.m.
ON THE AIR
TODAY
College Baseball
College World Series: Wake Forest vs. Stanford, ESPN, 1 p.m.
College World Series: LSU vs. Tennessee, ESPN, 6 p.m.
Golf
PGA Tour: U.S. Open, third round, NBC, noon
LPGA Tour: Meijer LPGA Classic, third round, GOLF, 2 p.m.
Major League Baseball
Baltimore Orioles at Chicago Cubs, Marquee Sports Network, 1 p.m.

(Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press)

With the Chicago White Sox in town this week, Dodgers fans - and probably some Dodgers themselves - have thrown on their quarter-zips to play GM and analyze the possibilities.The Dodgers, a second-place club with championship hopes, have holes on their roster.The White Sox, a talented but underachieving bunch meandering through another disappointing season, have spackle to share.

The Washington Nationals made three comebacks in last night's game to tie the score to only lose it on a bizarre play to put the 15th loss on the Nats bullpen.The offense scored five runs to back starter Trevor Williams, but in the end, he couldn't do his job to control the runs and gave up five against a Marlins offense that isn't good past their superstar Luis Arraez who is batting .390 on the season but just came off of an 0-15 slide to post a 5-5 game with three key RBIs include a 2-run bomb against Williams.

The Washington Nationals were on a 13-10 run and were 2.0 games from the Wild Card when they rolled into Miami and had the win sewn up in the first game of that series - until a blown save unraveled the fabric of the team.Since that point, the Nats went on a 9-17 skid.Last night, the Nats showed they can beat one of the best teams in baseball.

Keibert Ruiz's ninth-inning homer gave the Nationals a brief lead Thursday, one they reclaimed after erupting for three runs in the 10th.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)HOUSTON - Keibert Ruiz neared third base during his home run trot and glanced at the dugout.He clenched his fist and pumped it before saluting.

Alternating wins and losses for the past six games, the Dodgers are looking for their first back-to-back victories since May 29 and 30 against the Washington Nationals.That probably gives an idea of how rough the past month has been as the Dodgers are just 11-14 since May 16 when their six-game win streak came to an end and are just 2-8 after victories during that stretch.

The online gambling market is incredibly competitive, even in the regions that recently legalized it.New markets are popping up in both US and Europe and the operators use modern incentives to acquire new users.In the Czech Republic, for example, it's quite easy to find operators that give out freebies.

Baseball America has published a new Washington Nationals top-30 prospects list.There is a lot of movement as you would expect, and expect more as the draft is less than four weeks from now, and the Nats top pick will slide into the №2 and expect that to be Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews or Wyatt Langford when the name is called.

(Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)

The Angels are 6½ games behind the first-place Texas Rangers in the American League West and 1½ games back of the Houston Astros for the third wild-card spot.The trade deadline is Aug. 1.How the Angels perform between now and then, however, is unlikely to influence their decision on what to do with Shohei Ohtani.

Dominic Smith's two-run homer capped a five-run sixth inning Sunday in Atlanta.(Brynn Anderson/AP)Comment Gift Article ATLANTA - Here's how the Washington Nationals scored five runs in the sixth inning of their 6-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves that snapped a six-game losing streak Sunday afternoon: Luis García doubled.

The Washington Nationals enter this game stuck in a 5-game losing streak, and mistakes once again K.O.'d the team.Tell me if you heard this before: Another winnable game lost in a 1-run game.Errors, pitches in the dirt not blocked, plays not made, walks not accepted, and the 14th blown save of the season.

The Washington Nationals are mired in a 4-game losing streak.Another winnable game on Wednesday was just a 1-run deficit until the bullpen gave away another three.No easy task this weekend as the red hot Braves just swept the Mets in three games in which the team from New York had at least 3-run leads in each game.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have reached the final leg of their road trip with the start of a three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.After Clayton Kershaw's superb outing on Thursday to halt a four-game losing streak, the Dodgers sit 1.5 games back of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West.

The Washington Nationals will play at Truist Park for the first time this season when they kick-off a three-game weekend series with their division rival, the Atlanta Braves.After going on a hot streak in early May, the Nationals have started to cool down as they're on a four-game losing streak and are 3-7 in their last ten games.

Brady House is on the move from Fredericksburg.(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)Late last week, the Washington Nationals made some notable minor league moves, with the highlight being the promotion of third baseman Brady House, their 2021 first-round draft pick, from Class A Fredericksburg to high Class A Wilmington. He'll join left-hander Jake Bennett, a 2022-second round pick who got the same call a week earlier.

Nationals second baseman Luis Garcia is unable to come up with this grounder off the bat of Atlanta's Matt Olson in the seventh inning Friday.(Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)ATLANTA - The Washington Nationals have proved themselves good enough to be in tight games against the best teams in baseball.They're good enough to take leads into the late innings against these teams.

Coming into tonight's series opener against the Washington Nationals, the Atlanta Braves had a five-game winning streak in which the last four games were all come-from-behind wins.After trailing two separate times in this one, the comeback kids saddled up once again and sequenced two runs in the bottom of the eighth in order to run the streak to six, with five consecutive comebacks.

It was a shock to the New York Mets' system.The Atlanta Braves trailed by three runs in every game of their series, and swept their National League East rivals, capped by Ozzie Albies' three-run walk-off home run.Grant McAuley and Cory McCartney break down the Braves offense's hot streak, Austin Riley getting his groove back and Orlando Arcia surpassing anyone's expectations going into the winter.

LSU's Paul Skenes threw a 124-pitch complete game against Tulane.(Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP) If you root for the Washington Nationals, you should root against the LSU Tigers.The connection is this: The Nationals own the second pick in next month's MLB draft.The consensus across the sport is that LSU outfielder Dylan Crews - he of the ungodly .432

Monumental Sports and Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis (right), new president of Monumental Basketball Michael Winger (center) and new Wizards general manager Will Dawkins held a news conference Thursday at Capital One Arena.(Craig Hudson for The Washington Post)Red, white and blue balloons framed Monumental Sports and Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis on Thursday as he sat ready to introduce the men he hired to reinvigorate the Washington Wizards.