
FredNats drop close game to Salem: Still alive for first half championship
Jeremy De La Rosa homered and the FredNat bullpen pitched four shutout innings, but the Salem Red Sox held on for a 5-4 win over the FredNats on Wednesday night in Salem.

Jeremy De La Rosa homered and the FredNat bullpen pitched four shutout innings, but the Salem Red Sox held on for a 5-4 win over the FredNats on Wednesday night in Salem.

The Fredericksburg Nationals won an extra inning thriller for the second time in as many games Tuesday at Carillion Clinic Field. Viandel Pena scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the tenth inning to help the FredNats to an 8-7 victory.

In desperate need of a win in the series finale in Myrtle Beach, the FredNats found a way to squeak out a nail-biting 4-3 over the Pelicans in 10 innings.

T.J. White scored two runs and the FredNats got a quality start from Bryan Caceres, but the Myrtle Beach Pelicans scored two in the 7th and two in the 8th to win 6-2 and take a four games to one lead in the series.

Completing the game that got suspended Thursday night, the FredNats blasted the Myrtle Beach Pelicans 9-1 for their first win in the series. Myrtle Beach notched their third shutout of the series 3-0 in a 7-inning game two.

Washington Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg won’t make his scheduled start on Tuesday after being sent to the injured list.

Jason Derulo was announced Monday as a late summer addition to the FredNats Summer Concert Series.

The Lynchburg Hillcats scored two runs in the top of the 9th inning to rally and beat the FredNats 6-4 in the series finale at Virginia Credit Union Stadium.

After being held out of the hit column until the sixth inning, the FredNats scored the final two runs of the game and walked off the Lynchburg Hillcats 2-1 on a walk-off single by Geraldi Diaz.

Jackson Rutledge turned in the best performance of his FredNat career so far, pitching six shutout innings with four strikeouts, and the FredNats held on to a 4-3 win on Firework Friday at Virginia Credit Union Stadium.
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