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On Sept. 12, 1962, Tom Cheney of the Washington Senators struck out 21 Baltimore Orioles in a 16-inning game, a single-game mark never equaled and not very likely to be.
Three days later, a pitcher as obscure as Cheney broke a record set by Christy Mathewson in 1913 for the most consecutive innings pitched without walking a batter. On Sept. 15, Bill Fischer of...
The 2025 Nationals lost seven games in a row from July 29 through August 5, with their pitchers yielding 70 runs while their offense scored just 26.
Within that losing streak, the Nationals became the first team in MLB history to allow their opponents more than 80 hits, more than 50 runs and more than 10 home runs in a span of four games.
No other pitchin...
On July 6, 2025, the Washington Nationas announced that Mike Rizzo had been fired after nearly 17 seasons as the head of baseball operations for the Washington Nationals. His teams improved from 59 wins in 2009, his first year at the helm after three seasons as an assistant GM, to a team-record 98 victories and a division title in 2012.
Rizzo teams went on the win t...
Hall of Fame outfielder Henry Emmett Manush, ungraciously known as “Heinie,” based on his German heritage, played for Washington for nearly six seasons in the 1930s, hitting .328 with a cumulative bWAR of 21.6.
In 1933, Washington’s last pennant-winning season, his league-leading 221 hits and 17 triples produced 95 RBIs and a .336 average. He finished third in the ...
Theodore N. Lerner became the principal owner of the Washington Nationals when his family bought control of the team from Major League Baseball in July 2006. He remained involved in the team until his death at age 97 on Feb. 12, 2023.
Born the day the original Senators lost the 1925 World Series, Ted Lerner lived long enough to see his Nationals win a world champ...
