Nationals White Sox Baseball

Jacob Young

Washington Nationals v Chicago White Sox - Game One

Stringer

 College Signing Day 2024

The Washington Post

MLB: Washington Nationals vs Houston Astros

For The Washington Post

Victor Robles,Dominic Smith

Washington Nationals v Boston Red Sox

Nationals Red Sox Baseball

Baltimore Orioles v Washington Nationals

Mitchell Parker,Ryan Mountcastle

Trevor Williams

CJ Abrams

Blue Jays Nationals Baseball

Ildemaro Vargas,Jesse Winker

Washington Nationals v Texas Rangers

Eddie Rosario

Toronto Blue Jays v Washington Nationals

Respond to prefers-color-scheme dark in app web views

Follow section front redirects in Spectrum

Enable NLP source in PCS for load testing

Switch off the News Alerts Survey Widget when we have enough responses

Poll to determine if new LUF updates are available

Allows the winning A/B test variant to be turned on without Spectrum deployment

Show infinite scrolling sections in Assembler MultiView

Show option for NLP article summaries in Action Bar

Show NLP summaries collection recirc on article pages

A general feature flag for Recipe Features that aren't yet released

Feature flag for media team features that aren't yet released

Use new Orca video player for preroll plugin in Spectrum

Show the snow tracker (instead of the heat tracker) on Spectrum

Commanders will start a new era with a palatable 2024 schedule

The 26 best new restaurants in the D.C. area

The new dining reality: Smaller groups and shorter weeks

Look to the cloud to protect the life documents saved on your computer

Can you spot bad financial advice on TikTok? Take our quiz.

5 myths about Social Security as the program faces a funding crisis

Netflix will air NFL’s Christmas games, a major step for streaming service

Sam Feist, longtime CNN executive, will become CEO of C-SPAN

Michael Cohen testimony ties Donald Trump to hush money payment

 Key Senate matchups set for November in Maryland, West Virginia

Biden and Trump agree to CNN debate in June, ABC faceoff in September

The incomprehensible, unattainable scale of Trump’s deportation plan

Puppy abandoned with heart-rending note is adopted, named Minerva

Man, 91, shocks tiny firehouse with $500K gift: ‘Nobody knew how much I’d saved’

Retired cop meets abandoned baby he helped 23 years ago: ‘What are the odds?’

The Post’s choices in Northern Virginia’s U.S. House primaries

States see legalized sports betting as a tax windfall — but at what cost?

Haiti’s plight is a case study in the ‘responsibility to protect’

Putin hails Russia’s ties with China as ‘stabilizing’ force in the world

Who is Robert Fico, the Slovakian prime minister who was shot?

Middle East conflict live updates: U.S.-built pier anchored in Gaza;  ICJ due to hear arguments on Rafah

When budget flights actually make good budget sense

Cruise ships to return to Baltimore two months after bridge collapse 

Some cruise prices are about to get a little more clear

Cruise settles with person dragged under one of its robotaxis

Senators studied AI for a year. Critics call the result ‘pathetic.’

Best Places to Work in the Federal Government 2023

How America tried and failed to stay White

Miss Manners: Co-worker lies to avoid doing her job

Ask Amy: I’m scared of my adult stepson who keeps losing his temper

Carolyn Hax: Fiancé plans to have a baby with someone else

Trump trial live updates: Michael Cohen testifies about lying while questioned by defense in Trump hush money case

Susan Walsh

The Washington Nationals trailed the Baltimore Orioles by two runs with two outs and none on in the bottom of the ninth Wednesday night and couldn’t have looked more comfortable. Two innings later, they trailed by two again. They rallied to extend the game to another inning.

In the 12th, they nearly got the deed done again but fell, 7-6, to the Baltimore Orioles at <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/14/nationals-park-dc-guide/" target="_blank" class="contextual_link">Nationals Park</a>.

The Nationals put themselves in position for their MLB-leading 13th come-from-behind victory against the team with the best record in the American League. Ultimately, they ran out of answers and split the two-game series.

The loss, after more than 3½ hours of baseball, sent Washington back to .500 at 18-18. The Orioles improved to 24-12.

“They battled all night long. To me, that shows unbelievable character,” Nationals Manager Dave Martinez said. “We fell short, yeah. They put two on; we come back. They put two on; we come back. That says a lot about this ballclub. It was beautiful. It really was. We fell short, but we keep playing like that, we’re going to win a lot of baseball games.”

With two outs in the ninth, as a handful of those in attendance headed for the Metro, ESPN put the Nationals’ win probability at 1 percent. Eddie Rosario — heating up after a historically cold stretch to start the year — then hit a solo home run off Craig Kimbrel to cut the deficit to 3-2.

Two walks brought CJ Abrams up to face left-hander Keegan Akin, and Abrams promptly poked one through the right side to score pinch runner Nasim Nuñez with the tying run. From there on, the vibes changed, drama thickened, and the tension ratcheted up. Focus narrowed, and outs led to slammed bats.

Kyle Finnegan, who hasn’t allowed a hit in his past 11 innings, shut down Baltimore in the 10th. Albert Suárez returned the favor for the Orioles in the bottom of the inning.

In the 11th, after Hunter Harvey gave up a two-run homer to <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/ryan-mountcastle-homers-off-former-teammate-hunter-harvey" target=_blank>best friend Ryan Mountcastle</a>, Washington tilted the game back to even on Ildemaro Vargas’s double, which scored Joey Meneses, and Jacob Young’s sacrifice fly to shallow right. Ricky Gutierrez made the gutsy call to send Rosario, who slid home just before the tag from catcher Adley Rutschman to tie the score.

“This team — wow,” Rosario said. “Fighting all day, all game. We’ve got clutch hitters here.”

In the 12th, the Orioles scored on a leadoff single off Jordan Weems, and Jorge Mateo advanced to third base on two errors before scoring on a wild pitch. Finally, Washington failed to get the tying run across; Luis García Jr.’s double scored Abrams before the Nationals made three quick outs.

“You want those leverage situations,” Weems said. “Came up short this time but got to be ready because our team’s pretty good.”

Washington entered the game 10-5 in one- or two-run games largely on the strength of the back end of its bullpen. Once again, pitching kept the Nationals within striking distance, this time on a night when the offense was largely inconsistent against Orioles starter Kyle Bradish, who finished with nine strikeouts but lasted just five innings.

The Nationals put two on with no outs in each of the first two innings but mustered just one run, on Trey Lipscomb’s single up the middle to score Meneses in the second. By the end of the fourth, they had stranded five runners in scoring position, with Anthony Santander’s diving catch preventing another RBI for Lipscomb.

Lost in the late-game drama was another strong start from Mitchell Parker. The rookie left-hander again attacked with three trusty pitches — a fastball he knew he could pepper in and around the strike zone, a splitter and a curveball that could keep bats off-kilter.

But a sparsely used slider came back to bite him.

Parker tried his fourth pitch, got a few silly misses against Gunnar Henderson, and kept pounding it. The Orioles figured it out.

Santander took one, low and outside the zone, 416 feet for a solo shot to tie the score at 1 in the fourth. Henderson — who had been fooled with three sliders in his previous at-bat — launched his AL-leading 11th home run, a solo shot, two innings later to give the Orioles a 2-1 lead.

Still, his final line, 5⅔ innings pitched with two runs on five hits, marked another night of progress. His ERA rose only slightly, to 2.67, keeping the ERA of four of the Nationals’ five healthy starters below 4.00. Last year, only one starter (Josiah Gray) did that.

“The Orioles come in here pretty hot, right? ... We could have easily just said we’re down 3-1,” Martinez said. “We don’t do that. We keep fighting. ... That should be a pretty good wake-up call for those guys, that we can play with anybody.”

American University, BA in Journalism

Spencer Nusbaum covers the Washington Nationals for the Washington Post. Previously, he covered high school sports and worked as a news aide in the Post's sports section. He is an American University graduate and has written about the WNBA for The Next.

Spencer Nusbaum

washpost

Nationals fall to Orioles in a 12-inning thriller

the-washington-post

name

prism://prism.query/site,/sports/nationals&limit=20

Washington Nationals

Your source for Washington Nationals &amp; MLB baseball news and information. Get the latest schedule and stats for the Washington Nationals. Stay updated on the latest Washington Nationals news!

prism://prism.query/site-articles-only,/sports&limit=20

Sports

The Washington Post Sports section provides sports news, video, scores, analysis and updates about high school, college, and pro sports teams, including the Capitals, Nationals, Washington Football Team, United and Wizards. Post Sports also offers blogs and discussions about the latest sports news.