Going Deep with The Nats

The Washington Nationals are back in Philadelphia to face a team they are very familiar with. This is a 4-game series that will be heavily favoring the Phillies. We are at the 75 percent mark of the season with just 40-games remaining after tonight.

The Washington Nationals shocked the 28,000 fans in Baltimore last night as the Nats have now taken 2-of-3 games from the Orioles this season with the season finale tonight. The crowd was well-attended by Nats fans, and they had a lot to cheer about in the blow-out win last night. The Nationals were deep underdogs at the sportsbooks, and there is a reason you play the games. There is roughly 25 percent of the season remaining to play.

The Washington Nationals just finished a long homestand and stay in the region with a game up I-295 at Orioles Park against their regional rival.

With CJ Abrams back in the lineup after a few days off with back spasms, the team will give another rest day to Jose Tena after he took a grounder off his thumb on his throwing hand. The team had several roster moves with reliever Jordan Weems and DH Harold Ramirez both designated for assignment. To take their places, the team added Andres Chaparro for his MLB debut after he played in 627 minor league games. Reliever Orlando Ribalta will make his MLB debut when he is called into his first bullpen appearance. Joey Gallo, who is rehabbing in Triple-A, was not called up today.

While you would appreciate less drama in your Washington Nationals’ wins, the team has the chance to have a walk-off for an entire series if the Nats can win today via a walk-off to go with Friday and Saturday’s walk-off wins. A rare feat.

The heroes from the bullpen to throw zeroes in both games in come-from-behind wins that saw Alex Call and Jose Tena get consecutive walk-off hits has been dramatic to say the least. The LED lights that are new at Nats Park this season have added to the effects of these walk-offs as they go red and flicker.

With fewer than seven weeks of baseball remaining for the Washington Nationals’ 2024 season, Patrick Corbin‘s remaining starts, after tonight, for the Nats will be counting down in single digits. He is still in search of his 100th career regular season win.

On Saturday, baseball’s top prospect, James Wood, reached the 130 at-bat milestone which moved his status from “prospect” to “rookie” within MLB’s definition. With Wood graduating as a prospect, a few of us in NatsTown gave TalkNats our Top-30s, and what we knew going into this is that few people agree on even a Top-10.

You can use different methodologies on ranking prospects from the 80/20 tools rankings to future value to the most potential. Who will be the best MLB players?

In the new MLB scheduling, the Washington Nationals have the Los Angeles Angels in Nationals Park on even years, and hopefully one day for a World Series. Both teams are rebuilding now, and by the looks of it, the Nats are far ahead in the rebuilding process. This week in fact, Baseball America ranked the Nats as the 4th best farm system in baseball, while the Angels were ranked at dead last. If the Angels were a playoff team now, maybe you could justify their barren farm system — but they are a 3 1/2 games ahead of the lowly Oakland A’s in the AL West standings. Sadly, the Nats are only 1/2 game ahead of the Angels in MLB standings.