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POTOMAC Nationals Carolina League Champions!!
Hector Silvestre dominated all game, Randolph Oduber hit a 3-run homerun to lead a balanced offense, and the Potomac Nationals won their 3rd Carolina League Championship in 7 years last night by...
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Potomac reups with Washington for 2 more seasons
The Potomac Nationals have had tremendous success lining up with their big league parent club just up the road in DC. In 10 seasons, the Potomac franchise has seen the likes of Jordan Zimmermann, Drew...
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Clemente candidates include plenty with Virginia ties
Roberto Clemente was a great ballplayer but also was well known for his charity work off the field. As a result, every year MLB awards the “Roberto Clemente” award to the one player who gives back to...
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Zim returns with a bang!
The Washington Nationals had already wrapped up the NL east title and were playing for best record in the NL, which would have meant home field advantage. But they added a key piece yesterday to make...
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Rendon, Desmond slug their way to honors
The MLB awards season is in full swing, as the 2014 Silver Slugger awards were presented yesterday. Taking home the honors for their respective positions are a pair of hitters who were instrumental to...
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Nationals success owed in part to suburban affiliate
When Major League Baseball returned to the nation’s capital in 2005, in the form of the newly named Washington Nationals, it marked a return after 34 years, when the second coming of the Senators moved...
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Potomac Nationals prospects looking promising
Since the former Potomac Cannons lined up as an affiliate of the newly named Washington Nationals, they have played a vital role in creating a core nucleus that has made the big club competitive, hence...
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Zimmerman hits career HR #200
When the Washington Nationals came into being in 2005, they were led by carryovers from Montreal (Livan Hernandez, Nick Johnson, Brad Wilkerson, Chad Cordero), trade acquisitions and FA signees like...
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Career Splits of Ryan Zimmerman’s HRs
10 years ago, Ryan Zimmerman (Virginia Beach) made his debut with the Washington Nationals, just a few months after being drafted in the first round out of UVA, the first draft choice ever made by the...
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Indians affiliate trying to extend VA’s dominance in CL finals
The 2015 Carolina League postseason begins this week, and the first round will include the Lynchburg Hillcats (Indians) taking on the Wilmington Blue Rocks. Should Lynchburg advance, they will play for...
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UVA alum flooding MLB rosters now
For years, even decades, the University of Virginia has been known as a hotbed of talent for the sport of football. (Every NFL draft since the early 1980s has seen at least one NFL player get drafted...
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MEMORABLE MOMENTS 2015-Zimmerman hits milestone
When Major League Baseball returned to Washington for the 2005 season, in the form of the newly named Washington Nationals, fans were ecstatic, but team brass had a big chore to do. They had to, among...
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Nats Zimmerman, A’s Dolittle among RC finalists
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/199668596/roberto-clemente-award-nominees/ “To be a Virginian is a tremendous responsibility. So much is expected of us.” -Nancy Astor, first woman seated to British...
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Virginians in the MLB playoffs
The Major League Baseball playoffs are well underway, and sprinkled around the postseason rosters are 7 players who hail from our Commonwealth. North of the Border, the BlueJays are attempting to...
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