Denard Span News

Remember when Chicago White Sox' minor league outfielder Rodney McCray ran right through the yellow and blue Flav-R-Pac ad near the 369 ft sign on the plywood right field fence in Portland Oregon's Civic Stadium chasing a fly ball off Minnesota Twins ' prospect Chip Hale's bat? The wall in that minor league park gave way.

Justin Morneau, center, celebrated as the Twins went ahead 4-2 after he and Joe Mauer scored in the third inning.

Crank up the Aaron Hicks for American League Rookie of the Year talk because this kid is back! I may need to curb my enthusiasm a little bit; but after watching Hicks' performance on Monday, it's hard not to get excited about the future this kid has in front of him.

Long answer: Tim Williams , Travis Sawchik and a few other people were discussing this earlier today on Twitter.

Not even close: Tampa Bay second baseman Ben Zobrist waits to tag out Toronto's Maicer Izturis as he tries to steal second base in the fourth inning Thursday night.

Scott Kazmir struck out 10 while Mark Reynolds added his American League-best 11th home run as Cleveland completed a four-game home sweep of Oakland.

Span, left, was traded to Washington in November. Since then, he's been working to get to know his Nationals teammates and his new city.

The Tigers' Anibal Sanchez suffered his first loss to the Nationals. He was 8-0 against them heading into Wednesday's game.

The club, by description and definition, is a small one. In a world of bulging biceps and shrunken ballparks, the slap-hitting speedsters who populated the 1970s and '80s era of spacious, artificial-turf stadiums are nearly extinct, the few remaining required to prove their worth on almost a nightly basis, their margin of error as slim as their ... (more)

This next episode of the hit reality show "Yet Another World Series Preview" features pitchers Anibal Sanchez and Jordan Zimmermann in a game that is sure to be described by someone with the words "lack of run support" tomorrow morning.

Washington has fixed that problem with the addition of Denard Span to the top of the lineup.

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From Mark Zuckerman of CSN Washington's Nats Insider comes word that outfielder Denard Span is back in Washington's starting lineup for Sunday's series-finale against the Pirates at PNC Park.

Cole, a hard-throwing right-hander, did not mind. He had grown up in South Florida and liked playing on the East Coast.

Tim Hudson was a dual threat in his 200th career win, combining with Anthony Varvaro on a three-hitter while hitting a homer and a double to lead the Atlanta Braves to an 8-1 win over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night.

David Meyer, umpiring a high school game in Indiana, saw something he'd never seen before, an unusually sharp-breaking curveball.

Bryce Harper homered and singled, Dan Haren had his best start of the young season Saturday and the Washington Nationals beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-3. Denard Span and Jayson Werth each had two hits for Washington, which has won the first three games of the four-game set.

Evan Vucci/AP Nationals center fielder Denard Span went 2-for-5 with an RBI and made two sensational catches in the field in Washington's win over Cincinnati on Saturday.

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Patrick Reusse has been covering sports in the Twin Cities since 1968. He has been a Star Tribune sports columnist since 1988.