After a 2-4 start to the 2024 season, The Nats rebounded slightly to finish week two of the season at 3-3 and 5-7 overall. After winning two of three in San Francisco, Washington remained in the Bay Area for a three-game series against the A’s before heading to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers before returning home.
Notes and quotes from Tuesday night’s game with the Dodgers in Nationals Park... As of Wednesday morning, Washington’s GM and President of Baseball Ops Mike Rizzo was still hoping for some good news from the MRI on Lane Thomas’s left knee.
The Washington Nationals have lost OF Lane Thomas to a knee injury.
The Washington Nationals placed outfielder Lane Thomas on the 10-day injured list Wednesday with an MCL sprain in his left knee. Thomas, 28, was injured while stealing second base in the fifth inning in Tuesday's 4-1 home loss against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Notes and quotes while those other teams delay the real start of the offseason... In his Zoom call with reporters after signing a multi-year extension
Lane Thomas collected 16 of his 18 outfield assists this year while playing right field... Lane Thomas finished the 2023 campaign, “ranked second in Major League Baseball with a career-high 18 outfield assists, the second-most in a season in [Nationals’] history,” as noted in Washington’s Season in Review for ‘23.
Notes and quotes from the series finale with the White Sox... Lane Thomas went 0 for 3 with a sac fly RBI in the second of three with Chicago in D.C. this
Lane Thomas belted a grand slam to help the host Washington Nationals cruise to a 13-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday in the rubber match of the three-game series.
Home to the team with the best record in baseball plus two wild-card hopefuls, there's been plenty of competition in the NL East this season. Here are three players who have had breakout campaigns in the division.
Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ series finale with the Marlins... Davey Martinez made the decision to end Josiah Gray’s start against the Blue Jays last week in Toronto after the 25-year-old right-hander threw 63 pitches total in two innings, 40 in the second, giving up four hits, four walks, and four earned runs in a shaky appearance.
Notes and quotes from the Nationals and Marlins’ series opener in the nation’s capital... Joan Adon held Miami’s Marlins scoreless over six innings last week in loanDepot park, striking out three without walking a batter in a 7-4 win for Washington.
The Washington Nationals completed a three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday with a 6-3 win. The Nats got off to a historic start as CJ Abrams and Lane Thomas opened the game with back-to-back home runs on the game’s first two pitches.
Lane Thomas capped a big series with a home run and three RBIs as the Washington Nationals swept a three-game set against the host Cincinnati Reds, winning 6-3 on Sunday.
The Washington Nationals are reaping the benefits of not trading Lane Thomas as Tuesday’s deadline. Friday night, the 27-year-old outfielder showed why the Nats were reluctant to part with him for any offer and may have made potential suitors regret not pursuing him harder.
Lane Thomas belted two home runs, including a two-run homer in a three-run 10th inning, to rally the visiting Washington Nationals past the slumping Cincinnati Reds, 6-3 on Friday night.
Notes and quotes from the Nationals’ recently-completed trade deadline moves.. “Lane [Thomas] is a 27-year-old player, I think that he’s a late-bloomer, he’s just starting to come into his own,” GM Mike Rizzo explained after Washington’s Nationals held on to their right fielder at the 2023 deadline.
Lane Thomas has gotten on track after a sluggish start to his MLB career. Currently, the Washington Nationals outfielder is a trade candidate ahead of Tuesday’s deadline.
At 41-59, the Nationals are currently in last place in the National League East division but have been playing competitive baseball despite the record. Here are a few of the players trending up and down in 2023.
The Aug. 1 trade deadline is approaching, and the Giants' front office has some work to do.
Lane Thomas might not be making his last appearance in Seattle this season when the Washington Nationals wrap up a three-game series against the Mariners on Wednesday afternoon.
At 27 years old, Thomas is enjoying a solid season. One of his standout features is his health, having played 146 games last season and 70 in the current one.
We're almost two months into the regular season and the Washington Nationals find themselves where most pundits expect them to be for the foreseeable future: last place in the NL East.
Lane Thomas' first couple of months in D.C. couldn’t have gone much better. At the very least, he’s earned an extended opportunity to try to cement himself alongside Juan Soto in the long-term outfield.
Lane Thomas continues to state his case to be the everyday center fielder of the Washington Nationals. He’s flashed at the plate with bat over the past two weeks.
The Cardinals have now had 10 players and seven staff members test positive.
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