
Sanchez gem, balanced offense push Nats past Cubs in opener
Anibal Sanchez pitched into the ninth inning in Washington’s 9-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday.

Anibal Sanchez pitched into the ninth inning in Washington’s 9-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced more than $13.4 million in Community Development Block Grants for the counties of Accomack, Alleghany, Grayson, Greensville, James City, Lee, Mecklenburg, Russell, and Wise

Virginia Farm Bureau Federation AgPAC, Farm Bureau’s political action committee, announced its endorsement of 39 candidates for the Virginia Senate and 87 candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates.

Jordan Ellis saw his workload curtailed a bit in Cincinnati’s 25-23 loss to the New York Giants Thursday night.

Max Scherzer went four innings in his return Thursday night in Pittsburgh in a 7-1 Washington Nationals win. And now, the focus is on how he feels when he wakes up Friday.

The History Gallery of the R. R. Smith Center for History and Art will quite literally gleam through the end of the year.

William & Mary basketball faces a challenging schedule for 2019-2020 that features four NCAA Tournament teams from last season.

Patrick Corbin was coolly efficient, needing only 93 pitches to get through eight shutout innings, and the Nats offense was again balls to the wall in an 11-1 Washington win at Pittsburgh Wednesday night.

Sean Doolittle has been overused. That much is obvious in reference to the Washington Nationals closer.

Interesting idea from New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone: to get MLB to consider implementing a mercy rule.
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