Zach Duke

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Washington Nationals - INSIDE PITCH The Nationals' West Coast trip likely will be remembered for two incidents involving players experiencing difficulties with immovable objects. First, on May 13, Bryce Harper ran...

RHP Stephen Strasburg, who starts Tuesday at San Francisco, has a reputation of being babied because of the way the Nationals shut him down late last season. Don't believe it. Strasburg threw 117 pitches in Thursday's win at San Diego, the fifth time in...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Giants 8, Nationals 0 Giants 8, Nationals 0: Brandon Belt homered among his four hits and Ryan Vogelsong tossed five shutout innings before leaving with a broken right hand as San Francisco blanked visiting Washington in the...

The Sports Xchange By Dave Del Grande, The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: first lede; write-thru to follow Vogelsong breaks hand in Giants' shutout win SAN FRANCISCO -- Ryan Vogelsong pitched five shutout innings before leaving the game with a broken...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Washington Nationals - INSIDE PITCH Ryan Mattheus made two mistakes Sunday and Monday. The second was much more disturbing to Nationals manager Davey Johnson than the first. The right-handed reliever punched a...

Giants manager Bruce Bochy leaned back in his chair and tried to explain a week's worth of terrible starting pitching. Are the Giants starters tired from the long 2012 season? Are some of them pitching hurt? Is there a crisis of confidence? "So many...

The Sports Xchange By Forrest Lee, The Sports Xchange Padres 13, Nationals 4 SAN DIEGO - Will Venable, Kyle Blanks and Yonder Alonso homered and drove in two runs apiece as the San Diego Padres hammered the Washington Nationals 13-4 before an announced...

Padres hammer Nationals SAN DIEGO -- After dropping the first two in a four-game set with the Washington Nationals, the San Diego Padres bounced back in a big way. Will Venable, Kyle Blanks and Yonder Alonso homered and drove in two runs apiece as the...

Nearly a quarter of the way into the season, the Washington Nationals are hovering just two games above .500. It’s not exactly where the Nationals or their fans thought they’d be after winning the NL East last year at 98-64, the best record...

SportsDirect Inc. Preview: Nationals at Giants The Washington Nationals will look to continue their recent success against the San Francisco Giants when the teams begin a three-game series on Monday at AT&T Park. Washington won five of six meetings...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Francisco Giants - INSIDE PITCH The Giants are back home, and they've got to be happy about that. The road didn't suit them last week. A 1-5 trip through Toronto and Denver ended with another clunker, Sunday'...

MLB Team Report - Washington Nationals - INSIDE PITCH Jordan Zimmermann was not able to get his eighth win of the season Saturday, but he remains the hottest starting pitcher in the Nationals' stacked rotation. Zimmermann, still the National League...