MLB Manager Clearly Blames Players After 7 Straight Losses originally appeared on Athlon Sports. August is often called the "dog days" part of the baseball season, but it came early for the Washington Nationals this season.

No other player among the Big Red Machine's lineup of superstars can claim greater individual impact on how the game has been played since, even now.

Baseballs are seeing increased drag during flight this season, The Athletic found in a review of MLB's available data. According to The Athletic's review, there has been more drag on baseballs in 2025 than in any of the other nine seasons that MLB has tracked this data,

The Nationals made an addition to their “ruffster” on Saturday. Bruce the Bat Dog was called up from Triple-A Rochester to make his Major League debut in a pregame bat retrieval ceremony at Nationals Park.

The Washington Nationals fell to an agonizing 4-3 defeat in their game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday. But it was not all doom and gloom for the Nationals and their fans as the team’s “top paw-spect” made his long-awaited MLB debut.

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Ian Happ cracked a smile recently when asked about the pickoff move that Cubs lefty Matthew Boyd has used to nab unsuspecting runners at first base. “His pickoff move, it’s gross,” Happ said. “It looks exactly like a slide step.

Bruce, a 21-month-old Golden Retriever, fetched a bat during a ceremony before the Washington Nationals’ game against the Miami Marlins as part of a Pups in the Park promotion. He retrieved bats the last two seasons with the Rochester Red Wings,

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Willson and William Contreras put on a show for MLB when the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals matched up on Saturday.