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Washington Nationals news & notes: Nats shut out by Twins, 10-0; Rubber match in D.C. today…
CORBIN KEEPS MISSING LOCATION:
Davey Martinez summed up Patrick Corbin’s struggles on Tuesday night succinctly when he spoke with reporters following a 10-0 drubbing the hands/bats of the Minnesota Twins, who evened things up in their three-game series in Washington, D.C.’s Nationals Park.
Corbin, who was actually on a nice run in the month of May, with a 3.24 ERA, a 3.21 FIP, and a .297/.343/.438 line against before Tuesday’s start, giving up six runs in three starts and 16 2⁄3 IP, after he finished the first month-plus of the 2024 campaign with a 6.82 ERA, 4.63 FIP, and a .353/.405/.564 line against in six starts and 31 2⁄3 IP.
The 34-year-old gave up two home runs in his first outing of the season, but he’d given up just two in 44 innings in his previous eight starts before taking on the Twins.
Corbin gave up nine hits, three of them home runs, and eight runs total in a six-inning start, walking three, and striking out three.
The common factor in the home runs by the Twins? (By Byron Buxton in the second, Jose Miranda in the third, and Buxton again in the fifth).
“Missed location,” Martinez said. “He tried to go in on all three of those home runs, and left the ball out over the plate. His location was just bad today.
“But he’s pitching well, and for what it’s worth he gave us six innings and kind of saved our bullpen for tomorrow.”
But the outing, in which he threw 106 pitches, 60 for strikes, was not a good one for Corbin.
“Sometimes those days just happen. He’s been really good and keeping us in games. Today it just didn’t happen.”
A night after the club scored 13 runs on the Twins, the offense just didn’t happen either.
Twins’ starter Joe Ryan tossed seven scoreless innings against the Nationals, giving up just three hits and two walks, while striking out six, and collecting 10 swinging strikes, eight of them on his fastball, and 14 called strikes, 13 of them with his heater.
The difference for his offense night-to-night in the first two games of the series?
“Obviously the pitcher,” Martinez said. “We fell behind, but the pitcher, Ryan, he kept us off-balance, but his fastball played really well tonight.
“He located it, it was up in the zone, we couldn’t get on top, so he threw the ball well.”
“His stuff was good. His stuff was really good. So we got a chance to come back tomorrow and win a series, so let’s go back and go 1-0 tomorrow and win a series.”
DID RUIZ RETURN TOO SOON?:
Keibert Ruiz missed 13 games while dealing with a particularly rough bout of influenza. In his time on the IL, he reportedly lost 18-20 lbs. He played just two games on a rehab stint beore returning to the big leagues, and after a 2 for 4 game in the Nationals’ 12-3 win on Monday, he had hits in 3 of 4 games, but still just a .153/.176/.222 line, two doubles, a home run, one walk, and 12 Ks over 20 games and 74 plate appearances since the IL stint.
How, if at all, have his struggles affected his confidence?
“He’s been really, really good, he really has,” manager Davey Martinez said in his pregame press conference on Monday.
“He’s frustrated,” Martinez added, “… because we really thought, and he really thought that he was in a good place before he got sick, and we’ve been really, really trying to stay positive, with him, we really have, because it’s not his fault he got real sick. But he’s been very positive.”
In hindsight, did the club rush him back? Should they have given him more time to get back up to speed in the minors after the prolonged illness?
“He said he felt really good, and then he hit a little lull,” Martinez explained, “but that’s part of kind of building him up a little bit. So like I said, I’ll continue to monitor him, but he said now he’s at the point where he said now he feels like he gained some weight back, and he feels good enough, and now it’s just going out there and playing baseball.”
Ruiz is working both sides of his game, the manager said, and trying to get back to hitting and improve his catching as he plays most days as the Nationals’ No. 1 backstop.
“He spends a lot of time working on his catching, so hopefully he’s starting to feel better all the way around. We talked to him today about just not trying to do too much, just getting a good swing, swinging at strikes. The biggest thing for me is that he’s chasing a lot. He’s got to get the ball in the zone. When he does that — usually when he does that he strike the ball pretty well. He’s a big part of our lineup and a big part of our young players, so he’s going to be okay.”
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Martinez said he tried to assure Ruiz he believes the catcher is capable of turning it around.
“I told him, ‘This is not the first time — and granted, you’ve been sick, but this is not the first time you’ve started slow neither. You’ve done it and all of a sudden you’ve picked it up and you were — Wow! So let’s just focus on today, and focus on what you need to do to get ready to catch, and each at-bat try to get to that next pitch. But he was good. I saw him today, he was laughing and smiling amongst his players in the cage, so we just got to keep him positive.”
4 things to know about the weather:
- Abundant sunshine
- Temps slightly cooler than average
- No rain in sight — again
- Mid-week warmup
May is drawing to a dry, comfortable close, in stunning contrast to the very soggy Memorial Day weather we saw last weekend.
That 10-day stretch of rain put a definite dent in our drought, according to the weekly national drought monitor, but it seems that was the end of the improvement for a while: There’s almost no clouds in sight for the DMV for several days.
Enjoy the many hours of sunshine on Saturday. The high pressure coming in from the Hudson Bay brings a stiff north wind, but the day will also be sunny and comfortable, with highs in the mid 70s.
Download the NBC Washington app on iOS and Android to check the weather radar on the go.
The wind will die down after dark, and Sunday morning will be bordering on chilly. Expect widespread mid/upper 40s in most of the D.C. area, with urban centers and bayside communities staying just above 50°. Sunday afternoon will be just a bit warmer, in the mid 70s, but with far less of a breeze.
Highs will be back around 80° for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with overnight lows in the comfy 50s. It’ll be a perfect start to meteorological summer (June/July/August).
QuickCast
TODAY:
Sunshine Abounds, Breezy
Wind: North 10-15mph, Gust to 25 mph
Chance of Rain: 0%
HIGHS: 70° to 75°
TONIGHT:
Clear Skies
Winds Diminish
Wind: Northwest 10-15 mph
Chance Of Rain: 0%
LOWS: 46° to 54°
SUNDAY:
Mostly Sunny Skies
Pleasant Conditions
Light Breeze
Wind: NW 5 – 10 mph
Chance of Rain: 0%
HIGHS: 70° to 76°
MONDAY:
Partly Cloudy
Seasonable
Light Breeze
Wind: West/Northwest 10 mph
Chance of Rain: 0%
HIGHS: 76° to 82°
Sunrise: 5:45 Sunset: 8:26
Average High: 80° Average Low: 63°
Stay with Storm Team4 for the latest forecast. Download the NBC Washington app on iOS and Android to get severe weather alerts on your phone.
WASHINGTON – A man is in critical condition after falling into the Anacostia River in Southwestern Washington, D.C., Friday night.
What we know:
D.C. Fire and EMS reported the rescue effort shortly after 10 p.m. at James Creek Marina in Buzzard Point.
Crews believe a man fell from the dock into the water.
By 10:30 p.m., crews were able to pull the man out of the water.
Paramedics took him to the hospital in critical condition.
What we don’t know:
Officials did not identify the man who was rescued. No other information was immediately available.
The Source: Information in this story is from the D.C. Fire and EMS Department.
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DC’s baseball team faces potential DOJ probe after exec allegedly admitted to religious discrimination
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FIRST ON FOX — Washington, D.C.’s professional baseball franchise could come under Justice Department scrutiny after a viral video showed a team executive appearing to admit to his religious discrimination against a Christian player.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is urging Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon to investigate alleged religious discrimination against players for the Washington Nationals, according to a letter sent Thursday to and first obtained by Fox News Digital.
The letter comes after Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe published a secretly recorded video of Washington Nationals Director of Community Relations Sean Hudson saying the team does not include pitcher Trevor Williams in certain social media promotion.
He cited the player’s public criticism of another Major League Baseball franchise for hosting a drag group mocking Catholics.
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is urging the Department of Justice to investigate alleged religious discrimination within the Washington Nationals organization and across Major League Baseball. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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“According to the reporting by James O’Keefe, it appears the Washington Nationals are engaged in unlawful religious discrimination,” Boebert told Fox News Digital in a written statement. “I urge the DOJ to take immediate and decisive action.”
A spokesperson for the Justice Department said they received Boebert’s letter.
“The Department is reviewing the matter and will evaluate all appropriate next steps. As always, we remain committed to enforcing federal law and protecting civil rights,” they told Fox News Digital.
A spokesperson for the Washington Nationals did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hudson, in the clandestine recording, pointed to Williams’ public objections to the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the Sisterhood of Perpetual Indulgence — a drag group that dresses as nuns — during the team’s 2023 “Pride Night.
The event also drew condemnation from multiple Catholic bishops, who described it as “blasphemous.”
Trevor Williams of the Washington Nationals sits in the dugout before a game against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Wash., on May 28, 2025. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
Williams said he found the group’s anti-Catholic demonstration featuring vulgar caricatures of the crucifixion and sacred rituals to be “deeply offensive,” in an interview with Bishop Robert Barron last year. The professional baseball player said he made the decision with his wife to speak out even though it would put “a target on our back.”
“Baseball stadiums should be a place where everyone feels welcomed, like 100%,” Williams said in the interview. “We should all feel welcomed there. But that was clearly against one certain religion. If you don’t draw the line in the sand, who’s gonna do it?”
According to Hudson, that public criticism of the drag group’s performance later affected Williams’ opportunities at the Nationals franchise.
“Because of that we don’t use him on social [media],” Hudson told an undercover journalist in the video. “When they’re like ‘is a hot dog a sandwich’ and the players come up, we don’t ask him.”
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Boebert said she is concerned that Hudson’s admission could mean the franchise violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on religion and other protected classes.
“Americans of faith should not face professional repercussions for objecting to the mockery of their sacred traditions,” the Colorado Republican said in the letter. “MLB’s privileged legal position should not become a license for exclusionary practices.”
“Sister Unity” and “Sister Dominia” of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were honored on Pride Night before the MLB game between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 16, 2023. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire)
Hudson, in the video, described himself as “far-left leaning” and nonreligious. Meanwhile, he called Williams “super Catholic.”
The Washington Nationals executive also boasted about a Communist Party poster in his office and mused about pushing redistribution of wealth and other leftist agendas during baseball games at Nationals Park in Southeast Washington, D.C.
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“What a cool opportunity for us [Nationals] to also, be a little bit of like, the voice of reason,” Hudson said. “And a lot of people will tell you when I come to a baseball game, I don’t want to think about that s–t.”
“If you’re a sports fan and we piss you off, where else are you gonna go,” he went on. “I don’t give a sh–t.”
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