Baserunning blunder caps loss for Nats
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Victor Martinez hit a three-run homer to straightaway center field in the top of the ninth, and the Cleveland Indians ended the game with an unusual double play in a 4-3 victory over the Washington Nationals on Saturday night.
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Tom Glavine, leading off first base, saw the ball jump off Jose Reyes' bat and knew it was time to put on the burners. Still, the not-so-speedy Glavine was thrown out at the plate. It was pretty much the only thing that went wrong for him all night.
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A 4-3 loss to the Dodgers on Tuesday night is the Nationals fifth in a row, putting them in the midst of their longest skid since they dropped five straight to close out June.
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With the Redskins sputtering through another disappointing season, the area can now enjoy a new diversion: offseason baseball maneuvering.
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Whaddya think? Let him close tonight? He threw only 99 pitches and he was still pumping high-octane gas at the end. Curt Schilling might be good for a batter or two in a pinch tonight.
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Shannon Stewart was looking for guidance as he stepped to the plate. Hoping for a hit -- with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and Curt Schilling's no-hitter on the line -- he peaked over at venerable third base coach Rene Lachemann. But that was a waste of time.
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ne bad breaking ball did in the Yankees yesterday. Usually, one mistake does not cost them so dearly, but the Yankees are not usually scrounging for hits either.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks stumbled into Baltimore after dropping three straight and six of seven. They had fallen from first place to third in the NL West, their offense was struggling and beating American League teams was a daunting task.
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The Mets made six errors, gave up 11 walks and hit one batter Sunday in a loss to Philadelphia that left the second-place Phillies three and a half games behind the Mets in the N.L. East.
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So sweet was the seventh inning last night that those of the announced 30,610 who showed up at Safeco Field forgot for a little while that they were stuck in last place.
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In the thick of a pennant race, the New York Mets are sticking to quite a formula: poor fielding plus poor pitching equals defeat after defeat.
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Jeremy Bonderman nearly matches Bobo Newsom's Tigers record of 18 starts without a loss, but makes a key throwing error that helps the Rangers beat the Tigers, 8-3.
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Time is running out on the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers wasted a chance to cut their NL Central deficit to one game, giving up a first-inning home run to Albert Pujols in a testy 7-3 loss Wednesday night to the St. Louis Cardinals that saw two more hit batters and a pair of ejections.
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WASHINGTON D.C.  - The slumping New York Mets lost their fifth game in a row on Tuesday, a 9-8 defeat to the Washington Nationals, and saw their National League East lead over the Philadelphia Phillies shrink to a game and a half.
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Is the nation&#39;s capital on the verge of losing baseball again - this time without even playing a game? The move of the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC, appeared close to falling through Wednesday after
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The Nationals' big secret is that their starting pitching was so atrocious last season that almost anybody could do better and Washington went out and got almost anybody.
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Baseball can be so fickle. The line between the daring and defeatist is precariously thin, blurred by intangible factors, altered by blind providence.