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| Nationals' Hernandez troubled with knee injury |
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05/16/2005 |
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| Washington, DC (MySportsbook) - Washington Nationals pitcher Livan Hernandez had his right knee drained Monday. The righthander is scheduled to start Thursday's game against Milwaukee, but he is listed as day-to-day. Hernandez had an MRI Monday which revealed inflammation after leaving Saturday's game against Chicago in the seventh inning. This season, Hernandez is 6-2 with a 3.90 ERA. |
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| Philadelphia Phillies |
MLB Baseball Transaction |
05/15/2005 |
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| Traded outfielder Marlon Byrd to the Washington Nationals for outfielder Endy Chavez. |
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| Phillies, Nationals swap centerfielders |
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05/14/2005 |
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| Philadelphia, PA (MySportsbook) - Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd was traded Saturday night to the Washington Nationals in exchange for outfielder Endy Chavez. "A change of scenery should be good for both players," said Nationals general manager Jim Bowden. "This is a deal that could be beneficial for both ball clubs." Byrd was 4-for-13 (.308) in five games for the Phillies this season. After playing in 10 games as a September call-up in 2002, Byrd batted .303 with seven homers and 45 RBI -- mostly |
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| Series Notes: Arizona at Colorado |
MLB Baseball |
05/12/2005 |
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| 1/3 innings, walking four and striking out two. Ortiz is 9-3 with a 3.66 ERA in 17 career starts against Colorado. On Wednesday, Chad Tracy singled home Troy Glaus with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and the Diamondbacks held on to defeat the Washington Nationals, 3-2, in the rubber match of a three-game set at Bank One Ballpark. Craig Counsell finished 3-for-4 with an RBI and Glaus had two hits for Arizona, which has won two straight and finished a 10-game homestand 5-5. Glaus is batting .288 and leads the |
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| Giants' offense clicking without Barry, but pitching is not |
MLB Baseball |
05/09/2005 |
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| Star out of the lineup, yet surprisingly it has been substandard pitching which has hurt this squad. After starting the year with a record of 14-11, the Giants have dropped four of their last five games and barely escaped with a 4-3 victory over the Washington Nationals in yesterday afternoon's 13-inning and nearly four hour affair from SBC Park. The win salvaged a horrific start to the three-game set with the Nationals, who had outscored San Francisco in the first two games of the series by a combined score of 20- |
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| Mets' protest denied by MLB |
MLB Baseball |
05/04/2005 |
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| New York, NY (MySportsbook) - Major League Baseball denied a protest filed by the New York Mets resulting from Saturday's rain-shortened game against the Washington Nationals. Mets manager Willie Randolph and Nationals manager Frank Robinson both voiced their displeasure with the wet and slippery playing conditions at RFK Stadium that night, in what resulted in a 5-3 Washington win in 7 1/2 innings. Randolph argued under major league rule 4.16, which says "a game shall be forfeited to the visiting team if, after |
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| Nationals' Sledge placed on DL |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2005 |
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| Los Angeles, CA (MySportsbook) - Washington Nationals outfielder Terrmel Sledge was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday with a hamstring injury. Sledge left Monday's 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers after sustaining the injury to his right hamstring in the sixth inning. Running down a ball hit by LA's Hee-Seop Choi, Sledge slipped and fell to the turf. He stayed down before being helped off the field. In 20 games this season, Sledge has hit .243 with one home run and eight runs batted in. This mar |
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| Nationals' Eischen breaks forearm, out 8-to-10 weeks |
MLB Baseball |
05/02/2005 |
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| === Nationals' Eischen breaks forearm, out 8-to-10 weeks === Washington, DC (MySportsbook) - Washington Nationals relief pitcher Joey Eischen left Sunday's game against the New York Mets with a broken right forearm and the lefthander is expected to miss the next 8-to-10 weeks. Eischen, who will have surgery on Monday morning to repair a broken radius bone, suffered the injury when fielding a Kaz Matsui high chopper to start the seventh inning. Eischen moved to the right of the mound, jumped and fielded the ball, |
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| Nationals' Eischen injures right arm |
MLB Baseball |
05/02/2005 |
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| Washington, DC (MySportsbook) - Washington Nationals relief pitcher Joey Eischen left Sunday's game against the New York Mets with a right arm injury. Eischen, a lefthander, suffered the injury when fielding a Kaz Matsui high chopper to start the seventh inning. Eischen moved to the right of the mound, jumped and fielded the ball, but fell awkwardly on his glove hand. He did not attempt to get up and make a throw. Eischen, who was taken to a local hospital for x-rays on his arm to diagnose the injury, has a 1-0 |
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| Day scratched with ear infection |
MLB Baseball |
04/30/2005 |
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| Washington, DC (MySportsbook) - Washington Nationals pitcher Zach Day was scratched from his scheduled start on Saturday due to an inner ear infection. Tomo Ohka will take the hill instead when the Nationals face the New York Mets in the second of a three-game set at RFK Stadium. Ohka is 1-3 with a 5.85 ERA in four starts this year. The righthander had been removed from the starting rotation by Washington manager Frank Robinson because he has been ineffective. Day is 1-2 with a 5.09 ERA in five games, including |
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