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The Nationals finalized their opening day roster on Wednesday, 24 hours before the team takes the field against the Cubs in Chicago for their first game of the season.

John Middleton noshed on finger foods and even raised a Sanchez Slider - a chicken sandwich named in honor of the Phillies' star pitcher - as sort of a toast in appreciation for the millions spent on a makeover that modernized Citizens Bank Park just ...

When NBC Sports executive producer Sam Flood learned in November that his network would be back doing baseball, he immediately knew who he wanted as his play-by-play voice and the format for it.

Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising games in perhaps the last season before a labor shutdown.

The cherry blossoms are blooming, and Nationals baseball is on the horizon.

Virginia's baseball program has shown no drop-off without Brian O'Connor.

There will be winners and losers under the Automated Ball-Strike System, which makes its regular-season debut Wednesday night when the New York Yankees play at the San Francisco Giants.

The Washington Nationals, now led by first-year President of Baseball Operations Paul Toboni and new manager Blake Butera, sent Dylan Crews, 2024's No. 2 overall pick, down to Triple-A Rochester over the weekend. They sent a message in the process:

The Nationals haven't stopped making moves with less than a week before opening day. The franchise added infielder Jorbit Vivas on Sunday through a trade with the New York Yankees.

The AL East hasn't produced a World Series champion since 2018, equaling the longest drought in the history of this powerful division.