
Washington Nationals go to the extreme to get Game 1 win
Not sure which was bigger: the Washington Nationals getting to Gerrit Cole, or getting a win with Max Scherzer only going five.

Not sure which was bigger: the Washington Nationals getting to Gerrit Cole, or getting a win with Max Scherzer only going five.

Anibal Sanchez took a no-hitter two outs into the eighth, and then Sean Doolittle retired the last four to complete the third one-hitter in NLCS history, as the Washington Nationals took Game 1 with a 2-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.

The Washington Nationals, that group that was once 19-31, which you may have read about once, is now the favorite to win the National League. Go figure, right?

A two-out, bases-loaded single by Juan Soto scored three runs, aided by a Trent Grisham error, and sent the Washington Nationals to an improbable 4-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL wild-card game on Tuesday at Nats Park.

Top-ranked UVA (9-0) cruised to a 3-0 win over George Washington (2-7-1) at Klöckner Stadium on Tuesday night.

No. 3 UVA (8-0) will be home to host George Washington (2-6-1) on Tuesday night (Oct. 1) at Klöckner Stadium.

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Lyndsey Washington was selected as the Hokie Hero for Friday’s football game against Duke.

The Washington Nationals, entering the final week of the 2019 season, still had work to do to clinch a playoff bid, and eight games against two teams with playoff aspirations.

In a one-game scenario, a baseball game can go any of a million different ways. This is what faces the Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers going into their NL wild-card game Tuesday night.

Gerardo Parra homered for the second straight night, his second-inning grand slam keying a nine-run Washington Nationals second, in a 10-7 win over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday.
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