
MLB Notebook: Washington, Baltimore get Thursday wins
Matt Wieters hit his third homer, and Miguel Gonzalez got his sixth win of the season in an 8-6 Baltimore victory over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday.

Matt Wieters hit his third homer, and Miguel Gonzalez got his sixth win of the season in an 8-6 Baltimore victory over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday.

Ian Desmond drove in Bryce Harper from third with a sacrifice fly, and the Washington Nationals won their fifth straight, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 2-1, in 11 innings on Wednesday.

The Washington Nationals lost another baseball game, and it lost star Bryce Harper in the sixth inning to a scary-looking knee injury on the wet outfield turf.

A Michael Taylor homer tied the game in the eighth, and a Denard Span infield single scored the go-ahead run in the 11th in a 5-4 Washington win over the New York Yankees on Wednesday afternoon.

Danny Espinosa hit a three-run homer, and the Nats knocked out 12 hits against Cubs pitching in a 7-5 Washington win Friday night at Nationals Park.

Toronto hammered Taylor Jordan, and Mark Buehrle had little trouble in a complete-game effort in an 8-0 shutout of Washington on Wednesday night.

Jordan Zimmerman scattered six hits over eight scoreless innings, and Washington shut out Toronto, 2-0, in the opening game of a day-night doubleheader on Tuesday.

Four Washington and Lee University students have been commissioned as officers in the U.S. Army after receiving their undergraduate degrees at Commencement on May 28.

A university is not a museum where change should be seen as a rejection of the past. Instead, advancing and improving are the ways universities like Washington and Lee honor their commitment to, and reverence for, the past.

Years of work by City officials, historic preservationists and alumni of the former Booker T. Washington High School have resulted in two significant designations for the school, which is now a community center.
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