Category Archives: Harper

#Nats go to 5-1 on the season! Bryce Harper goes clutch! Post-Game!

Gio Gonzalez pitched a shutout and the bullpen picked each other up and Felipe Rivero gets the Save as Blake Treinen was nails in the 8th inning to save a bases loaded 1 out situation to induce a 6-4-3 tailor-made … Continue reading

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Game #5 Braves in for 4 game set – #Nats Game Thread

The Washington Nationals are seeing improved weather today, and might even see some sunshine as temperatures are above 70°F now in Washington DC for the first time in a while. The Nats will host the Atlanta Braves for a four … Continue reading

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Game #4 vs. the Marlins. Harper going for HR history! Game Thread

The weather has been the story for a while, and today Mother Nature will cooperate with chilly air but no rain or snow. If you count back 21 days into Spring Training and through yesterday, the Nats have played a … Continue reading

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#Nats Game #3 Instant Analysis

The story of this game was: BABIP (that favored the Marlins and hurt the Nats). Not great defense. And what appeared to be an uncharacteristically very bad game by Lance Barksdale. Probably need to retract this I want to clone … Continue reading

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Bryce Harper’s Opening Day Victus BH137.1 bat & new Topps card & the ‘Make Baseball Fun Again’ cap

On Opening Day, Bryce Harper had many bats to choose from for his gamers to be placed in the dugout, and he is very particular with the bats he uses in a game. On the 1st game of the season, Bryce chose … Continue reading

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Opening Day: A Nationals’ Holiday indeed! Late and great and FUN!

Some want Opening Day to be a National Holiday, and for Daniel Murphy , his first Opening Day as a member of the Nationals was like a Holiday: Joyous and festive and with a lot of meaning. Murphy was 2-3 with 2 … Continue reading

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Nats win Opening Day in dramatic come-from-behind fashion!

What a game. A complete heart thumper. Check your blood pressure meds. Daniel Murphy with the game winner and why not. This team never gave up and several players with big plays and don’t forget Scherzer with 2 runs over … Continue reading

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A Totally Subjective Analysis of Why the 2016 Nationals Will (Finally) Win 100 Games

I love analytics. Really. The numbers quite often confirm what we see on the field, and indeed they often explain why things are the way they are. You want to know when Bryce Harper  took that next step and became an … Continue reading

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Bryce Harper’s new TV commercial is about hair! #Nats

Most Nats fans know that Bryce Harper is quite proud of his flow. Bryce’s older sister Brittany used to style Bryce’s hair through his teenage years and was very creative with the daring styles. A year ago MLB’s Cut4 did this … Continue reading

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St. Paddy’s Day & Another Spring Training Thursday: Strasburg, Harper, Zimmerman, Werth, Ramos were there

Crawling out of bed at 4:10 AM this morning to head to Viera, we had to remind ourselves that the reward was Harp and Zim, JDub and Ant-knee, Stras and the Buffalo. OK, it was worth it. There was baseball in … Continue reading

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