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The two-time Cy Young Award winner Scherzer (12-5) has been dealing with various neck soreness after he missed a game with neck spasms earlier this month. "It's his neck, but it's the other side," said Nationals manager Dusty Baker. "We're taking the cautious route." Baker said Scherzer arrived at San Diego's Petco Park earlier than usual to try and loosen his neck, but informed him that he was not able to pitch. Continue to Article

August 19, 2017 12:17:am EST

Dusty Baker spoke with reporters before the series opener about the lineups he’s been penciling in over the last few weeks as one injury after another has hit the Washington Nationals’ roster. “I’m glad that the Commissioner’s Office ain’t calling me to tell me that I don’t have four major leaguers, like in Spring Training,” Baker joked. It’s “next man up,” for the Nationals, however, as Baker has a couple times said over the last few weeks. “That’s part of a season,” Ryan Zimmerman told reporters on Thursday. “I think [Mike Rizzo] says it all the time. It takes way more than 25 guys to complete a major league season. The depth that we have here is one of the reasons why we’ve been able to continue Continue to Article

August 18, 2017 6:28:pm EST

Brian Goodwin was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a left groin strain, joining a long list of Washington Nationals outfielders currently sidelined with injuries. Goodwin was placed on the DL retroactive to Aug. 14. He joins Bryce Harper (hyperextended knee), Ryan Raburn (trapezius strain), Jayson Werth (foot contusion) and Adam Eaton (torn ACL). Eaton said Wednesday he has not ruled out the possibility of returning this season from his April injury, and has been running and swinging a bat for the past couple weeks. "I'm going to give myself the best chance whatever I can as humanly possibly for my knee," Eaton said. "I have to listen to my knee at the end of the day, my knee is going Continue to Article

August 18, 2017 9:22:am EST

Dusty Baker talked after Michael A. Taylor returned from the Disabled List this past weekend about getting some of his injured players back in time for the stretch run. “We got Michael back today,” Baker said, “and hopefully nothing else happens and then we expect and hope to get [Jayson] Werth and [Trea] Turner back in a couple weeks, we’re unsure about Koda Glover, and so he’s progressing, so it will be like getting a whole new fresh team down the stretch if things go right. “That’s why I just believe in the bottom of my heart that some of this is already written, that some of these guys are going to show up like the cavalry, right on time, and be fresh down the stretch drive and be a lot fresher Continue to Article

August 17, 2017 12:43:pm EST

Jered Weaver is stepping away from baseball. San Diego Padres pitcher Jered Weaver has announced his retirement. The 34-year-old is leaving the game after 12 seasons in the majors, 11 of which came with the Los Angeles Angels. Continue to Article

August 16, 2017 1:22:pm EST

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