Chien-Ming Wang News

Detwiler has allowed 16 earned runs over 20 1/3 innings over his past four starts, including a laborious, 4 1/3-inning outing Friday night in a 7-4 Nationals win.

Rick Ankiel hit a two-run triple in Washington's four-run first inning, Ryan Zimmerman padded the lead with a three-run double in the seventh and the first-place Nationals beat the slumping Atlanta Braves 7-4 Friday night.

Chris Coghlan snapped out of a season-long slump with a tiebreaking three-run homer off Tim Lincecum in the sixth inning, and the Marlins rallied past the Giants 7-6. Giancarlo Stanton became the first player to hit the Marlins' home run sculpture when he connected against Lincecum .

But the Nationals had no room for him in their rotation, and so Manager Davey Johnson seems to be unsure of what, exactly, to do with him.

Marlins : Josh Johnson tries to silence the Giants bats after a 14-7 drubbing by the Giants Thursday night.

Back from the hell that is called 'no connection found' thanks to a power surge that took out my modem and router, the injury gods took it relatively easy on me the second day.

Whenever asked this season whether the Nationals will use a six man pitching rotation when Chien-Ming Wang is ready to come off the DL, Davey Johnson has put that particular idea to rest with a resounding no.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a professional baseball player whose name is constantly mentioned in trade rumors? That has to be unsettling, regardless of what they might say publicly.

The Washington Nationals activated Chien-Ming Wang from the 15-day disabled list Tuesday.

Orioles 2B Brian Roberts will begin a minor-league rehabilitation assignment today, a significant step in his bid to return from a concussion that has kept him sidelined for more than a year.

Later this week the Washington Nationals are scheduled to receive some help on the pitching front, as Chien-Ming Wang is expected to be activated off the disabled list.

Mattheus, Manager Davey Johnson said, had felt soreness in his foot for about two weeks.

I'm not going to lie, I thoroughly enjoy press conferences with Davey Johnson, especially when the Washington Nationals ' manager shares anecdotes from his career like he did on Friday when talking about his old Orioles teammates and the time Frank Robinson fell in a pool at an O's party .

The Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, came back twice in an 8-5 win over the Toledo Mud Hens on Saturday night from Fifth Third Field.

2 spot in the order. At first, Ross Detwiler didn't look as Nick Markakis 's two-run home run in the fifth inning sailed toward the right field seats.

This means that, at least for now, fifth starter Ross Detwiler will possibly retain his spot in the starting rotation.

With Chien-Ming Wang looming in the minors and his rehab stint nearing its end, the Nats are going to have to decide which of their overachieving starters will have to take the fall and move to the bullpen.

Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner Tom Yeager has lost two long-time member universities in the last week and is now shopping for replacements.

After Wednesday night's 10 K outing, Washington Nationals ' left-hander Gio Gonzalez had 60 strikeouts in 48.2 IP in 2012, surpassing Stephen Strasburg's total of 56 K's in 48.0 innings to take the lead in the National League.

Wei-Yin Chen of the Baltimore Orioles is scheduled to face another ace pitcher after outshining the New York Yankees' C.C. Sabathia Wednesday, according to the Major League Baseball official website.