Howard Fendrich, The Associated Press

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Devers hits 2 HR; Red Sox to host Yanks in AL wild-card game

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox clinched a playoff berth on the regular season's... → Read More

Mets-Nats opener delayed after positive COVID test, tracing

WASHINGTON (AP) — The opening day baseball game between the Nationals and Mets was... → Read More

Scherzer exits; Porcello gets 150th win, Mets top Soto, Nats

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nationals starter Max Scherzer exited because of a hamstring problem after laboring through just one inning Wednesday night, overshadowing Juan Soto's eventful 2020 debut for the World Series champs, and Rick Porcello collected his 150th career win in the New York Mets' 3-1 victory over Washington. Porcello (1-1) went seven innings, allowing one run and five hits and retiring… → Read More

Kendrick homers, Soto dances, Nats beat Mets 5-3 in return

WASHINGTON (AP) - Star slugger Juan Soto danced on the dugout roof to celebrate solo shots by Howie Kendrick and Josh Harrison, and the Washington Nationals returned from a coronavirus-caused four-day break to beat the injury-depleted New York Mets 5-3 in a rain-interrupted game Tuesday night. Kendrick - who missed Washington's last two games with a bad back, so hadn't played in a week - went 4… → Read More

Yanks don't let Nats toot own horn, beat 2019 champions 3-2

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gleyber Torres helped the New York Yankees prevent the Washington Nationals from tooting their own horn. Yes, the reigning World Series champs had an actual, honest-to-goodness trumpet in their dugout Sunday. Alas, their bullpen blew a lead, so the Nationals never got the chance to jazz up a victory celebration with the brass instrument. Facing two of Washington's top… → Read More

Minus Strasburg, Nats top Yanks 9-2 on Robles' 3 hits, 4 RBI

WASHINGTON (AP) - Victor Robles jump-started Washington's dormant offense by delivering three hits and four RBIs, including a homer he celebrated by pantomiming pandemic-appropriate "air high-fives" with teammates, helping the Nationals beat the New York Yankees 9-2 on Saturday night without scratched starter Stephen Strasburg and despite five errors. Asdrúbal Cabrera and Michael A. Taylor also… → Read More

Series MVP Strasburg misses 1st start with hand nerve issue

WASHINGTON (AP) - World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg was scratched from what was supposed to be his first start of the season for the Washington Nationals on Saturday night because of a nerve issue with his right hand. Nationals manager Dave Martinez announced about four hours before the scheduled first pitch against the visiting New York Yankees that Strasburg would be replaced as his team's… → Read More

Nationals catcher Tres Barrera banned 80 games for drug test

WASHINGTON (AP) - Washington Nationals catcher Tres Barrera was suspended 80 games without pay by Major League Baseball on Saturday after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. MLB said Barrera, a 25-year-old who made his major league debut last September, tested positive for the performance-enhancing substance Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone or DHCMT, the chemical compound used in a drug that… → Read More

Cole, Stanton lead Yanks past Nats 4-1 in stormy MLB opener

WASHINGTON (AP) - The pandemic-shortened Major League Baseball season finally started Thursday night, with zero fans, Nationals star Juan Soto sidelined by COVID-19 and a 4-1 storm-halted victory for the New York Yankees over reigning champ Washington behind Gerrit Cole, Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge. What began as a muggy, cloudy evening, with the temperature around 90 degrees, turned into… → Read More

Yanks, Nats kneel in Black Lives Matter salute; Fauci's toss

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Nationals and Yankees knelt in unison before the first game of the baseball season as part of an opening day ceremony Thursday night that featured references to the Black Lives Matter movement, the coronavirus pandemic -- including an off-the-mark first pitch by Dr. Anthony Fauci -- and the home team's 2019 championship. Players from both clubs wore T-shirts saying Black… → Read More

Nats star Juan Soto positive for COVID-19, out for opener

WASHINGTON (AP) - Washington Nationals slugger Juan Soto tested positive for COVID-19 and was put on the injured list Thursday, forcing him to miss the start of the pandemic-delayed season. "You feel bad for him. He's a great player. The fans want to see him. And it affects our lineup," Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said as he announced Soto's test less than five hours before the 2019… → Read More

Repeat Series champs: From 1907-08 Cubs to 1998-2000 Yanks

A look at managers, stars, season records and World Series opponents for Major League Baseball teams that have won at least two championships in a row: 1998-2000 New York Yankees Stars: Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, Paul O'Neill, Bernie Williams, David Cone, Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens Manager: Joe Torre 1998: Record: 114-48; World Series: Beat San Diego Padres 4-0 1999: Record:… → Read More

Record drought: Nats aim to be 1st repeat champ since Yanks

WASHINGTON (AP) - Manager Dave Martinez got a kick out of seeing World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg and other Washington Nationals finally open their championship rings a couple of weeks ago in the clubhouse - even if it was months later than originally planned and with no one around but other members of the organization. "It's definitely sad that we couldn't have the fans here with us,"… → Read More

When is a slump worse than a slump? When there are 60 games

Just as sure as someone could take advantage of this year's pandemic-truncated, 60-game Major League Baseball schedule to hit .400, there are bound to be players who end up with much worse stats than they'd like. After all, it's harder for a batter to make up for a bad week or a pitcher to mask a rough inning when there are only about two months to play instead of six. And that could be… → Read More

Fans see 1st Nats exho from balcony; Harper HRs off Scherzer

WASHINGTON (AP) - As Max Scherzer and the reigning champion Washington Nationals hosted baseball's first exhibition game in more than four months Saturday, a handful of fans watched from afar -- really far, seated on a high-rise building's glass balconies beyond left field. Nationals owner Mark Lerner and general manager Mike Rizzo each had a better view from the Nationals Park stands, nowhere… → Read More

For tennis, golf, tournaments without fans come at a cost

When he first contemplated the prospect of a U.S. Open without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Tennis Association's chief revenue officer figured there was no way it could work. Lew Sherr eventually came around to embracing the idea of a closed-door Grand Slam tournament -- if it's held at all; a decision is expected as soon as next week -- because it still could make money… → Read More

Ex-Hoya, ex-Knick, current Georgetown coach Ewing has COVID

WASHINGTON (AP) - Georgetown basketball coach Patrick Ewing tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated at a hospital. "This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly," the Hall of Famer as a player for the Hoyas in college and the New York Knicks in the NBA said in a statement issued by the university. "I want to encourage everyone to stay safe and take care of yourselves and your… → Read More

Wimbledon canceled for 1st time since WWII because of virus

Wimbledon was canceled on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, the first time since World War II that the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament won't be played. The All England Club announced after an emergency meeting that the event it refers to simply as The Championships is being scrapped for 2020. Wimbledon was scheduled to be played on the club's grass courts on the outskirts of… → Read More

5-time major champ Maria Sharapova retires from tennis at 32

Maria Sharapova quietly walked away from tennis at the age of 32 on Wednesday, ending a career that featured five Grand Slam titles, time at No. 1 in the WTA rankings and a 15-month doping ban. She has been dealing with problems in her right shoulder for years and lost the last four matches she played at major tournaments. This season, Sharapova played only two matches and lost both. In an essay… → Read More

'My mission was to win': Coco tops Venus at Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Everyone had the same question when the Australian Open draw was revealed: What were the odds that Coco Gauff and Venus Williams would face each other again in the first round at a Grand Slam tournament? "I was a bit shocked," Gauff said, "I'm sure everyone was a bit shocked." Gauff, 15, played Williams, 39, to begin her first appearance in the main draw at Melbourne… → Read More