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Game Date:
05/16/2017
7:05pm EST
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Washington -1.5
Pittsburgh +1.5
Total:
Over
8.5 (-110)
Under 8.5 (-110)
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Venezuela has nearly ground to a halt over the past several weeks as opponents of President Nicolas Maduro have taken to the streets to demand his removal from power. The protests themselves have turned violent as well, with hundreds injured and thousands have been arrested. Maduro stands defiant, employing the military to hold on to power and crack down on his opponents. Continue to Article
May 16, 2017 11:21:am EST
On Friday, May 12th, A.J. Cole and the Washington Nationals were supposed to face off against the Philadelphia Phillies. The first 25,000 fans in attendance, as a special bonus, would receive bobbleheads of beautiful, perfect, sweet Trea Turner. Due to rain, the Nats made the call to postpone the May 12th game, and play it today Sunday, May 14th in a day-night doubleheader, giving out the bobbleheads for the second/rescheduled game. Continue to Article
May 15, 2017 12:13:am EST
Bryce Harper put up another big number Saturday without taking another swing. Harper and the Washington Nationals reached a $21,625,000 deal for the 2018 season, a contact that gives him an $8 million raise and covers the slugging outfielder through his last year before he can become a free agent. The 24-year-old Harper would' have been eligible for salary arbitration next winter. Continue to Article
May 13, 2017 6:35:pm EST
Fueled in part by Game Seven of the 1992 NLCS and what came in the 20 years after that for the Pittsburgh Pirates, along with tripping into this business several years later, football emerged as the primary focus, with baseball becoming an afterthought. The only negative comes from the travel demands of a 162-game season that includes 81 of them away from home; pro football players make only eight road trips each regular season. Consider the baseball career of Jeff Samardzija, a former Notre Dame receiver who likely would have been a first-round draft pick if he’d entered the NFL in the same year former Lions receiver Calvin Johnson did. Scott Miller of Bleacher Report recently focused on Samardzija’s still-thriving baseball career, more than a year after Calvin Johnson walked away from football while he could still walk. Continue to Article
May 13, 2017 10:15:am EST
Carter Kieboom, Juan Soto, Erick Fedde and Victor Robles were all on Baseball Americas updated Top 100 prospects list when it was released yesterday. Drafted out of Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia with the 28th pick in the 1st Round of the 2016 draft, 19-year-old infielder Carter Kieboom, brother of Spencer, a 2012 5th Round pick by the Nationals, was described by Washingtons Assistant GM and Vice President of Scouting Operations Kris Kline as a real baseball player with good makeup and a really good feel for the game last June. Kieboom landed at No. 98 on Baseball Americas updated Top 100 Prospects list when it was released this week. Continue to Article
May 12, 2017 10:58:am EST
