
May 24, 2019: Washington Nationals begin their improbable comeback with four-homer game
The Washington Nationals’ record was 19-31. They were in a…

June 1, 2019: Tanner Rainey wins, Tanner Roark loses, homers as Reds top Nationals
Reds pitcher Tanner Roark was facing his former team for the…

June 4, 2019: Stephen Strasburg records 100th career win for Nationals
Ten years after he was drafted, nine years after making his major-league…

June 13, 2019: Major-league baseball comes to Nebraska on eve of College World Series
Homer Bailey of the Kansas City Royals throws the first pitch…

June 13, 2019: Shohei Ohtani becomes first Japanese player to hit for the cycle
On June 13, 2019, Los Angeles Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani…

June 14, 2019: Padres score 12 unanswered runs to rally at Coors Field
The thin Rocky Mountain air, the enlarged outfield dimensions,…

June 16, 2019: Nationals’ Aníbal Sánchez earns his 100th win
It was a beautiful Father’s Day afternoon in DC: sunny and…

June 19, 2019: Franmil Reyes pulls Padres past Brewers in slugfest
As the Milwaukee Brewers took the field on a sunny Wednesday…

June 19, 2019: Gerardo Parra brings the Baby Shark to rally Washington Nationals
Washington Nationals fans could be forgiven if their focus was…

June 19, 2019: Blue Eye, Brown Eye, Black Eye: Scherzer pitches with a broken nose
The 24,220 fans attending the second game of the day-night doubleheader…

June 23, 2019: Albert Pujols returns to Busch Stadium with Los Angeles Angels
“This is probably one of the best moments of my career. I’m…

June 23, 2019: Dodgers win third straight game with a walk-off home run by a rookie
Three rookies took turns hitting walk-off home runs in three…

June 28, 2019: Four calls reviewed, four calls overturned — all at first base
Similar to almost every game played in San Diego during the summer…

June 28, 2019: Fernando Rodney, Aníbal Sánchez reach milestones in Nationals’ win over Tigers
The Washington Nationals’ Aníbal Sánchez would be facing…

July 6, 2019: Max Scherzer strikes out 11, collects a hit, and steals a base
The 27,863 fans filing into Nationals Park for this 4 P.M. Saturday…

July 13, 2019: At Coors Field, Reds hit 5 triples in one game
As baseball has shifted to the “three true outcomes” in the…

July 18, 2019: Strasburg sets records, homers, has to dance in dugout
If you came to the ballpark hoping to see something you hadn’t…

July 23, 2019: Gregorius’s 7 RBIs, Hicks’s homer and catch send Yankees to extra-innings win
Max Kepler drilled a four-seam fastball to deep left-center field.…

July 23, 2019: Trea Turner hits for the cycle again
Every good recipe starts with the right ingredients. In baseball,…

July 25, 2019: Baltimore’s Stevie Wilkerson earns the first nonpitcher save
The Los Angeles Angels were tightening the race for a 2019 American…

July 25, 2019: Long Island Ducks win in first Atlantic League game using computer to call balls and strikes
As the second decade of the twenty-first century neared its end,…

August 2, 2019: Weird baseball: Phillies pitcher Velasquez records an outfield assist while position player pitches
At first glance the box score doesn’t look unusual except for…

August 5, 2019: Orioles’ Jonathan Villar hits for the cycle, but Yankees set home run record at Camden Yards
It had been 10 seasons since a Baltimore player hit for the cycle.…

August 7, 2019: Thousands of fans see their first MLB game in Boston — and it lasts 12 minutes
For thousands of fans in the Greater Boston area, it was their…