Stephen Strasburg News

Brewers starter Zack Greinke is a free agent at the end of the season and he will be looking for big money in his next contract.

The Sunday night broadcast on ESPN pits the Nationals against Braves in Atlanta at 8 p.m. ET, and features two of the hottest pitchers in baseball: Gio Gonzalez and Brandon Beachy.

Washington Nationals ' manager Davey Johnson seemed at a loss for words when trying to explain Stephen Strasburg's outing on Saturday.

After scoring 21 combined runs on Friday, the Gwinnett Braves and Rochester Red Wings plated six with the G-Braves coming out on top 4-2 in Saturday action at Coolray Field.

Nationals manager Davey Johnson says he doesn't like to make decisions about his pitching rotation or bullpen in the heat of the moment, but he's didn't wait long to pull Ross Detwiler as the team's No.

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New York Mets outfielder Vinny Rottino is congratulated in the dugout after hitting a home run - his first major league home run - in the first inning against the San Diego Padres at Citi Field.

Starting pitching will eventually go south when you miss on as many draft picks as the Twins have in recent years.

The Braves put up a valiant effort against Stephen Strasburg today, but the bullpen was unable to hold against a suddenly white-hot Nationals offense.

The Braves hope to break out of a slump today but will face Washington's young fireballer, Stephen Strasburg .

With the high school baseball season just behind us, American Legion ball under way and the Gastonia Grizzlies slated to open at home on Tuesday, America's Pastime is settling into its spot on the local sports calendar.

Stephen Strasburg is starting for the Nationals today. Two things are a good bet for today's results.

We're about two months into the MLB 's regular season, which means there's plenty of teams showcasing .500 records that most would've never suspected.

Tim Hudson had utterly dominated the Nationals since he arrived with the Atlanta Braves, but those were the old Nationals, and Friday night brought another reminder that these Nationals are different.

Chipper Jones has faced a host of nasty pitchers over his 18-year career, from Curt Schilling to Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez to Justin Verlander, but he said the young Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg is the nastiest of them all.

After I showed him his 1.75 ERA, 0.73 HR/9, and 48 percent ground ball rate, Clayton Kershaw decided he'd mastered pitching and will now take up a new career as an alpaca farmer.

Any time a new season starts, analysts and fans alike look to speculate on just who might have a breakout season, and just how far they may be able to take it.

Cole De Vries made his first major league start on Thursday, May 24, becoming the ninth pitcher to start a game for the Twins this season.

"They made plays we didn't," Davey Johnson told reporters after last night's loss to the Philadephia Phillies.

As lonely as it might feel to be Mike Minor these days, in the midst of such a trying stretch in his young career with the Braves, there is somebody who knows exactly what he feels like.