Whether he gets another opportunity with a different team -- save or otherwise -- remains to be seen.“I hope he does,” said Baker of Papelbon, whose 368 saves are ninth all time, “because he was hoping to get to 400 saves this year.
Kurt Suzuki hit fifth. By the time the Nationals clubhouse opened at 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, he was nowhere to be found, his locker already cleaned out. For the record, Melancon picked up another save, but this time around it wasn't pretty. For half a week, good. We already knew that Jonathan Papelbon was an opinionated and outspoken ballplayer not unlike his former Boston Red Sox teammate Curt Schilling. Channel 4 News 582,109 views 39:50 In the last of those three outings, on July 28, he was pulled in the ninth inning after facing just three batters.Heading into the weekend, Washington’s 7½-game margin over the Marlins was the second-largest division lead in all of baseball, behind only the Cubs. We went with what we felt was our best 25 players, which was our best seven bullpen players. He came on in the ninth with two on, nobody out, and the Nationals ahead 7-3, then proceeded to give up consecutive hits that made it a one-run game. Castro received the grousing.
In an incredible fashion, Robles fully extended to haul in the ball, robbing McGuire off an extra-base hit.Everyone has their go-to songs when handed the holy aux cord, whether in the car, at a party or anywhere else where music is being played.
If a Nationals player did care, though, he probably wouldn’t have wanted to wear a T-shirt reading “Obama can’t ban these guns” to his let’s-make-amends spring training news conference. The Nationals did a lot of the “little things” poorly before tightening up the last two games, including Thursday’s 6-4 win against Toronto.“We want to win as many games as possible because we always do -- whether it’s a short season or not. 3 spot. For Jonathan Papelbon, one of his preferred tracks was apparently a pro-Donald Trump tune, appropriately called "Vote for Trump." That nugget, per Dan Steinberg, will certainly go down as a chapter in the book chronicling the closer's time in Washington, whenever that book is published. + ComplianceHelper.getPromptText() + 'Washington entered the ninth inning of Thursday's afternoon matinee against the Toronto Blue Jays with a two-run lead. A sports columnist for the Washington Post lit into recently released Washington Nationals pitcher Jonathan Paplebon saying that because he supports Donald Trump and the Second Amendment he doesn’t reflect the interests of local fans.