Danny Espinosa News

Before Ryan Mattheus boarded a flight back to the nation's capital Tuesday, he ran into Nationals manager Davey Johnson at the team hotel.

The top of the minor league OPS leaderboard is typically littered with Triple-A veterans and A-ball players too old for their leagues.

Pablo Sandoval hit a mammoth two-run home run to right field in the 10th inning to beat the visiting Washington Nationals 4-2 at AT&T Park on Tuesday night.

Danny Espinosa burst through the doors of the visitors' clubhouse at AT&T Park on Monday afternoon with his bat in hand and his shirt drenched in sweat.

It looks like left-hander Ross Detwiler will not go on the disabled list, according to manager Davey Johnson.

As the ball cracked off the bat of Will Venable and lofted into the cloudless southern California sky, Dan Haren turned over his left shoulder and watched.

An error by Ryan Zimmerman and back-to-back-to-back two-out singles in the bottom of the ninth allowed the San Diego Padres to tie tonight's game, but a solo home run by Washington Nationals' bench bat Chad Tracy gave the Nats a 6-5 win in Petco Park.

"That was how we play baseball," Desmond said. "Hit a couple homers. Play good defense.

Catcher Wilson Ramos pulls up lame at first base after lacing a single in the fourth inning, his second hit in as many at bats.

Zack Greinke pitched for the first time since suffering a broken left collarbone to help the Los Angeles Dodgers take a 3-1 win over the Washington Nationals in the finale of a three-game series.

Clayton Kershaw continued his dominance on Tuesday night with a 2-0 win over the Nationals.

Dan Haren continued his resurgence, filling up the strike zone, gathering more confidence and giving the Nationals, at the moment, a right-hander overqualified for the No.

The Dodgers Kershed the Nationals on Tuesday night, by showing them there Kershitude, in a nice quick clean 2-0 victory.

The Washington Nationals come to Los Angeles Monday and the team that many prognosticators placed first in the NL East find themselves in second place with a 20-17 record, but trailing the Atlanta Braves by only one game in their division.

It is off to California for the Washington Nationals as they have their first prolonged road trip of the regular season.

Slugging first baseman Anthony Rizzo and the Chicago Cubs agreed Monday to a $41 million, seven-year contract that could be worth up to $68 million over nine seasons.

Any week with a five game winning streak is pretty good, right? Relive it with every post from this week in Natsdom on District on Deck, including an interesting look at Danny Espinosa's struggles thus far this season.

It looked good for seven innings, kind of. The offense managed only one run, pathetic by any standard, especially against the lowly Cubs.

The Nationals got a dominant outing from Gio Gonzalez on Sunday afternoon against the Cubs, but the lefty's offense and bullpen couldn't provide much support in a 2-1 loss.

The Washington Nationals went into early May under .500 in third place in the National League East division, not exactly the place they wanted to be.