
Washington wins series opener over Dodgers, 8-3
Gio Gonzalez threw eight scoreless innings, and Ian Desmond homered twice to key a 13-hit attack, lifting Washington to an 8-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday.

Gio Gonzalez threw eight scoreless innings, and Ian Desmond homered twice to key a 13-hit attack, lifting Washington to an 8-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday.

Stephen Strasburg was the Stephen Strasburg you imagine him to be, pitching the Washington Nationals to a 6-1 win over Colorado Saturday night.

Joe Ross was solid again, and Washington withstood a seventh-inning Arizona rally in an 8-3 win at Nationals Park Thursday afternoon.

A Wilson Ramos two-run single broke an eighth-inning tie, and Jonathan Papelbon pitched around a two-out ninth-inning error to hold on to a 5-4 Washington Nationals win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.

Jordan Zimmerman fell apart in a five-run third, and the New York Mets cruised from there, defeating the Washington Nationals, 5-2, to complete a three-game sweep that brings them into a tie for first place in the NL East.

The Washington and Lee University poverty studies program and VMI will host a symposium addressing the relationship between food and childhood health on Sunday on the two campuses in Lexington.

On July 30, Tom Speaks, Forest Supervisor of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, submitted a report to Kimberly Bose, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to “identify information and data requirements necessary for the assessment of project effects on National Forest System Lands” from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP).”

Bryce Harper homered twice, and Doug Fister gave up two runs in six solid innings, pushing the Washington Nationals past the Miami Marlins, 7-2, on Wednesday.

Ryan Zimmerman and Jayson Werth are back, Jonathon Papelbon is on the way, but none of that helped Washington on Tuesday in a 4-1 loss at Miami.

A four-game multi-hit streak capped with his first career home run propelled former Lancer Kyri Washington to be called up to the Lowell Spinners, Class A Short Season affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.