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Washington Nationals reliever Shawn Kelley provided some solid evidence to that argument during Sunday’s game against the Oakland Athletics. The Nationals entered the ninth inning with a pretty strong 11-4 lead. Manager Dusty Baker stuck with closer Koda Glover to open the inning. Continue to Article

June 04, 2017 9:16:pm EST

Washington and Oakland wrap up their three-game set this afternoon after they split the first two games in Oakland Coliseum. Bryce Harper is free! Harper served his three-game suspension, sitting out of the finale of the Washington Nationals three-game set in San Francisco and each of the first two games in Oakland after his altercation with Giants reliever Hunter Strickland earlier in the week. Important as Harper is to the lineup, Baker talked after the series opener with the As about the importance of the depth that the Nationals have available this season. Continue to Article

June 04, 2017 1:13:pm EST

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Daniel Murphy and Brian Goodwin each had four hits, including a home run, and Stephen Strasburg pitched seven strong innings as the Washington Nationals defeated the Oakland Athletics 13-3 on Friday night. Murphy was 4 for 5 with two RBIs including his 10th home run. He's 10 for 18 with three extra-base hits and five RBIs over his last four games since missing three games last weekend with an illness. Goodwin played right field in place of Bryce Harper, who was serving the third of his four-game suspension for his role in Monday's brawl with the San Francisco Giants. His home run was his first in the majors and the four hits were a career high. Dusty Baker's 1,800th managerial Continue to Article

June 03, 2017 3:25:pm EST

Dusty Baker reaches a career milestone in Nationals 13-3 win over As in Oakland. Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker recorded the 1,800th win of his career as the Nationals cruised past the Oakland Athletics, 13-3 on Friday evening. Stephen Strasburg took the mound for the Nationals after collecting a career high 15 strikeouts in his last start. Continue to Article

June 03, 2017 1:58:am EST

This right here is the most Canadian episode in the history of our 25-Year-Old Baseball Card series. It stars Oakland Athletics relief pitcher John Axford, who grew up in Ontario and was a big Toronto Blue Jays fan as a kid in the early ’90s. As we opened Continue to Article

June 01, 2017 8:19:pm EST