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The percentage of players born outside the 50 states in Major League Baseball dropped to its lowest level since 2014 while Japan's 14 were its most since 2010.

Using Hawk-Eye technology, 12 cameras measure whether a pitch crosses the strike zone with accuracy of about one-sixth of an inch.

Blake Butera directed the Washington Nationals to a 10-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday for the franchise's first victory on opening day since 2021. He became the fifth Nationals manager to win his first opening-day game with the club.

Trevor Rogers pitched seven shutout innings and Colton Cowser and Blaze Alexander had seventh-inning RBIs to give the Baltimore Orioles a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins on opening day Thursday.

Brady House, Joey Wiemer and Jacob Young homered for Washington on opening day, and the Nationals beat Alex Bregman and the Chicago Cubs 10-4 on Thursday for manager Blake Butera's first win with the team.

Nationals.TV hit the District's airwaves on Thursday morning.

Netflix made its long-awaited entry into Major League Baseball on Wednesday night, streaming the New York Yankees' 7-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park to kick off the 2026 season.

First-year Washington Nationals manager Blake Butera and new President of Baseball Operations Paul Toboni have placed their analytics-forward fingerprints all over the Nationals' rebuild, from coaches pulled out of sports science labs to new ...

The Washington Nationals' biggest addition this winter wasn't a free agent. It's not some hot rookie prospect. No, the exciting new piece for the Nationals, who begin a new season on Thursday in Chicago facing the Cubs, is 4 feet deep, 6 feet wide ...

Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that robot umpires will have on their human counterparts.