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Washington made the most of its five hits, getting solo homers from Ian Desmond and Tyler Moore, and a strong seven-inning effort from Jordan Zimmerman, lifting the Nats to a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees Wednesday night at Nationals Park.
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Laverne Cox, best known for her recurring role in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, will speak at Washington and Lee University on May 21, at 7 p.m. in Lee Chapel. The event is sponsored by the Contact Committee.
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Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, will give a public talk at Washington and Lee University on May 18, at 4:30 p.m. at Stackhouse Theater in Elrod Commons.
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Mat Latos smoked and mirrored his way through six and a third innings, allowing just two Washington hits, and Miami got just enough offense to eek out a 2-1 win over the Nats on Tuesday night.
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The Washington Nationals made official the assignment of the club’s prized pitching prospects, RHP LucasGiolito and RHP Reynaldo Lopez to the Carolina League’s Potomac Nationals.
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The UVA baseball home games against VCU and George Washington, which were postponed because of inclement weather in February, will not be rescheduled. After exhausting all possible opportunities, the schools were unable to find mutually agreeable dates in which to play this season.
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The Mock Convention Spring Kickoff will be May 6-9 at Washington and Lee University and will include The Capitol Steps, a Washington-based troupe of congressional staffers turned songwriters and political satirists; a presidential issues panel; and two speakers.
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After President George Washington’s death, Martha Washington – America’s original first lady and one of the most important women in the history of the United States – burned most of her correspondence with her husband.
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A fourth-inning error led to a three-run Washington rally, and the Nationals rode solid pitching from Stephen Strasburg and the Nats bullpen to an 8-2 win over the New York Mets in the first game of a four-game series at Citi Field on Thursday.
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Doug Fister was tagged for five runs on 10 hits in five and two-thirds innings, and Washington was never really in it in an 8-4 loss to National League East rival Atlanta on Monday, the sixth loss in a row for the Nats.
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