Washington Nationals Tickets
Washington Nationals
League: National League (NL)
Division: NL East
Stadium: Nationals Park (capacity 41,339)
Manager: Dave Martinez (2018-present)
Star Players: Kyle Finnegan (pitcher), Lane Thomas, James Wood
2022-23 Regular Season: 71-91 (Text in NL East)
2023 Postseason: Did not qualify
Legendary Former Players: Gary Carter, Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Max Scherzer (pitcher), Steve Rogers (pitcher)
World Series Titles: 1 (2019)
Washington Nationals
Getting a major league team to stick it out permanently in Washington, D.C. had proven difficult over the past century or so of professional baseball in America, but that is for no lack of trying. By the start of World War One in 1915, there had already been no fewer than five teams named either the Washington Senators, Statesmen, or Nationals at some point, but the only one to hang around for any significant amount of time was the Washington Senators founded in 1901, who were officially known as the Nationals from 1905 to 1955 and actually won the World Series in 1924, defeating the New York Giants (later the San Francisco Giants) in a thrilling seven-game contest. This edition of the Nationals/Senators became the Minnesota Twins after the franchise relocated to Minneapolis in 1960. An immediate attempt was made to replace the team, with a new Senators franchise installed in the nation’s capital in 1961. They were so bad that they lasted just eleven seasons (reaching above .500 only once) before relocating to become the Texas Rangers. By this time, it was becoming evident that Washington, D.C. really had quite the talent for creating MLB teams…for other cities. The idea of a team in the capital was put on ice for a time in the minds of all but the most impassioned local campaigners. No one in 1971 when the Senators moved to Texas would have imagined that one day baseball would return to D.C. in the form of another team that had just joined the league in 1969. This was the Montreal Expos, the first Canadian team in MLB, responsible for expanding the game north of the border for the first time in history. To say that the Expos never really found their feet in the league despite surprisingly lasting 36 seasons, during which they made the playoffs precisely once, is an understatement. By 2004, everyone was sick of the team, especially most of their long-suffering fans, many of whom had checked out after the Expos had their best ever regular season nullified by the players strike in 1994. Alternate locations were discussed, with the team eventually relocating to D.C. where they assumed the mantle of the Washington Nationals, returning the name to the capital for the first time in nearly four decades. But dressing a donkey as an eagle doesn’t mean that he can fly, and the team remained rooted to the bottom of the NL East through their early years in Washington. The Nationals first qualified for the postseason in 2012, falling in a Game Five decider in the NLDS against the St. Louis Cardinals. It was a fate they would repeat three more times: losing in four to the Giants in 2014, capitulating to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five in 2016, and being pipped by the Chicago Cubs in 2017. And so while Nationals fans were mildly curious when their team snuck into the 2019 playoffs via a Wild Card, no one expected the team from the capital to beat the Milwaukee Brewers in the Wild Card game, the Dodgers in the NLDS, and the Cardinals in the NLCS (a four game sweep). That first championship would not come so easy, however, and the 2019 World Series against the Houston Astros went all the way to Game Seven after the Nationals fought back from being down three games to two. In the decider, the Nats scored six runs in the final three innings to rally, bringing World Series glory to Washington for the second time in its history, just five years short of a century since the city’s first MLB championship. Recent seasons haven’t been quite as kind, with the Nationals spending the past four years in the AL East basement, but Nats fans, still reveling in the afterglow of that 2019 triumph, will be hoping to see their team back in contention before long.
Washington Nationals Rivalries
The Washington Nationals have developed a friendly local rivalry with the Baltimore Orioles, playing one home series and one away series per season since 2006 as part of interleague play. The team also has a rivalry with the Philadelphia Phillies that goes back to their Montreal Expo roots (when the teams were divisional rivals) but has now heated up due to how close the two cities are geographically.
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