#TBT to "Nationals Classics": Kendrick's walk-off grand slam lifts Nats

#TBT to "Nationals Classics": Kendrick's walk-off grand slam lifts Nats
The Nationals were busy at the non-waiver trade deadline this season. Even with a double-digit lead in the National League East, general manager Mike Rizzo still needed to make moves to set the team up for the postseason. Obviously, the bullpen needed reinforcements, so Rizzo acquired Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson immediately after the All-Star break, and then also Brandon Kintzler right at the July 31 deadline. But while Nationals fans were clamoring for new relief arms, Rizzo made another...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Some baseball to whet your appetite for the regular season

Relive "Nationals Classics": Some baseball to whet your appetite for the regular season
The regular season is so close, you can almost taste the Ben's Chili Bowl half smokes, popcorn and peanuts. It'll be April 3 before you know it. But before the Nationals host the Marlins on South Capitol Street next Monday, there are still a couple of exhibition games left - MASN broadcasts March 28 versus the Fish, then March 31 and April 1 against the Red Sox - and a smattering of "Nationals Classics" that will air in the week leading up to opening day. We've got a nice variety for you -...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Sweet '16

Relive "Nationals Classics": Sweet '16
The second round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will wrap up today, meaning there will be only 16 teams remaining with national championship hopes. Here's hoping your bracket's not busted. With the Sweet 16 starting on Thursday, MASN is bringing you a couple of sweet Nationals games from 2016 this week. (Friendly reminder that we are also airing two live spring training games this week: Monday, March 20 at 1 p.m. against the Yankees and Thursday, March 23 at 1 p.m. against the...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Historic Harper and walk-offs galore

Relive "Nationals Classics": Historic Harper and walk-offs galore
Hope you're enjoying our slate of Nationals spring training games so far. Be sure to tune in later today as the Nats host their roommates at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, the Astros, at 1 p.m. on MASN. New catcher Matt Wieters is scheduled to make his Nationals debut. After today's game, the next Nationals spring training broadcast on MASN isn't until Monday, March 20. So to hold you off until then, we've got a great nine-game schedule of "Nationals Classics" airing throughout the...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Clinchmas 2014 and wild walk-offs

Relive "Nationals Classics": Clinchmas 2014 and wild walk-offs
Isn't it great to have live baseball on your television again? Yeah, agreed, it's the best. Just a reminder that you have two more Nationals spring training games airing live on MASN this week: Tuesday, March 7, against the Red Sox at 1 p.m., and Sunday, March 12, against the neighbor Astros also at 1 p.m. Sprinkled around these live games are a few more "Nationals Classics" airing on MASN to keep feeding your baseball needs. On this week's slate, a memorable clinching of the National...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Openers and a Strasmas memory

Relive "Nationals Classics": Openers and a Strasmas memory
We're only two days away from the inaugural Nationals game at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. The Nationals will host the Astros on MASN on Tuesday at 1 p.m., the first look at the new stadium for many in D.C., where springlike temperatures have only heightened the desire to see baseball again. But here at MASN, we have baseball all winter long, and this week's slate of "Nationals Classics" is perfect for satisfying your need for fastballs, strikeouts and, well, fastballs that become...

Relive "National Classics": Wild endings leading into spring training games

Relive "National Classics": Wild endings leading into spring training games
The full Nationals squad has reported to The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches and full workouts are underway. All is right in Natstown. Before you know it, we'll have real, live-action baseball games for you fans. To be specific, that comes to you next Tuesday, Feb. 28, when MASN will broadcast the first of seven Nats spring training games this season as the tennants of the new training facility in West Palm Beach go head-to-head. That also means this is the last full week of "Nationals...

Relive "National Classics": Celebrate start of camp with heroic past efforts

Relive "National Classics": Celebrate start of camp with heroic past efforts
With spring training starting in a few days, it's nearly time for the annual utterance of the four most glorious words in the English language: Pitchers and catchers report. This week's "Nationals Classics" on MASN offer a smattering of game-winning walk-offs, heroic homers and clutch deliveries. It's only a couple of weeks before actual Nationals baseball action begins on MASN, so let these games whet your baseball appetites. Monday, Feb. 13, 1 p.m. - Adam Dunn slugged 76 homers in his...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Walking off into spring training

Relive "Nationals Classics": Walking off into spring training
It's so close you can almost feel the Florida sun. Spring training - when Nationals pitchers and catchers report to The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach - is nine days away. Meaning, by this time next week, you'll have baseball activities just a couple of sleeps away. Until then, MASN rolls out it's final non-baseball week of "Nationals Classics" to hold you off for these last couple of days of the offseason. This week is jam-packed with walk-off victories and sprinkled with...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Slugging your way into February

Relive "Nationals Classics": Slugging your way into February
Well, Nationals fans, we're almost ready to pass through one more hurdle between winter's cold and baseball warmth. By the end of this week, we can utter these words: Spring training starts this month. February never felt so good, did it? As we move closer to the four greatest words in the English language - pitchers and catchers report - you can warm yourself with this week's "Nationals Classics" on MASN. Think of this as your own personal pre-spring training training. Pretty soon,...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Throwing back to earliest Nats moments

Relive "Nationals Classics": Throwing back to earliest Nats moments
It's been a long and slow offseason for the Nationals. The lack of any real significant news makes the wait for spring training seem that much longer. If you're not keeping track at home, we're 23 days away from pitchers and catchers reporting to West Palm Beach. But alas, just as the long offseason carries on, so does MASN's "Nationals Classics" series. The election of Ivan Rodriguez to the Hall of Fame puts the first National in baseball's honored fraternity, a significant milestone...

Relive "Nationals Classics": History, extras, whiffs and walk-offs

Relive "Nationals Classics": History, extras, whiffs and walk-offs
That little break of warm weather we had last week - pushing 70 degrees in January? Awesome! - only makes baseball fans yearn more for pitchers and catchers to report. But the good news is that it's now less than a month before batterymates converge on The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches for Nationals spring training. In the interim, we've got another week's worth of "Nationals Classics" on MASN, games that feature some of the best performances in curly W history. This week, there's the...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Beating up on the Phillies and Marlins

Relive "Nationals Classics": Beating up on the Phillies and Marlins
We're inching closer and closer to the arrival of spring training! Can you believe that Nationals pitchers and catchers report to The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in 37 days, with position players arriving just three days later? While you countdown the days to baseball's return, MASN continues along with our "Nationals Classics" series this week with some memorable NL East victories over the Phillies and Marlins. This would be the week to tune in if you hold special animosity to the Nats'...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Some heroics to get you closer to spring training

Relive "Nationals Classics": Some heroics to get you closer to spring training
OK, let's face it: Once New Year's Day passes, the want for a new baseball season really sets in. You're ready to pitch snow, cold and frigid wind chills for warm thoughts of pitchers and catchers reporting to West Palm Beach, Fla., where the Nationals will hold their first spring training at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. Well, we're still about six weeks away from the day that hardcore baseball fans consider the starting point of a new season. In the interim, we've got some warm...

Relive "Nationals Classics": The best of the best of 2016

Relive "Nationals Classics": The best of the best of 2016
Some people consider the week between Christmas and New Year's Day to be the best of the whole year. Some time off work surrounded by friends and family. Well, if that's the case, then for Nationals fans, it will be even better because we're bringing out the best of the best from the past year for 2016's last slate of "Nationals Classics." We're packing a whole lot of baseball in this year's final week. Grand slams? Check. Extra-inning walk-offs? Got 'em. Historic feats? Of...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Trio of no-hitters cap off memorable holiday week

Relive "Nationals Classics": Trio of no-hitters cap off memorable holiday week
This week's games on "Nationals Classics" have a little of everything for the discerning Nationals fans. The perfect pre-Christmas gift, you might say. You want marathons? We've got games stretching long into the night before late-inning heroics. You like history? How about a 10th straight victory that tied a franchise record. Comebacks, walk-offs, sterling individual efforts? They're all represented in some of the best Nationals action to air on MASN. But since it's the holiday season -...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Harper's three-homer night

Relive "Nationals Classics": Harper's three-homer night
There's only one "Nationals Classic" on the MASN docket this week, so be sure to tune un at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11 (or set your DVR if you're partaking of the second day of Nationals Winterfest at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center). This week's offering is a game from May 6, 2015, when Bryce Harper sent a midweek Nationals Park crowd of 31,417 into a frenzy with a power display against Marlins right-hander Tom Koehler. Harper homered three times that night - in his first three...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Wild finishes and pitching gems

Relive "Nationals Classics": Wild finishes and pitching gems
How's everyone feeling post-Thanksgiving? Were you able to walk off some of those extra pounds gained on Thursday? Well if you weren't able to, I've got some good news for you baseball fans: We are officially one week away from the Winter Meetings at National Harbor! MASN is leading you up to baseball's big offseason event in our own backyard with a jam-packed week of Nationals walk-offs and pitching gems. Take a look at this week's "Nationals Classics" schedule on MASN: Monday, Nov. 28,...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Grand slams and 16-inning marathon

Relive "Nationals Classics": Grand slams and 16-inning marathon
Happy Thanksgiving! As you're enjoying spending time with friends and family, devouring a big bird on Turkey Day and hopefully watching the Redskins beat up on the Cowboys, MASN is giving Nationals fans a couple of baseball reasons to be thankful this year. Check out this holiday week's "Nationals Classics" schedule filled with grand slams and a Sunday special marathon victory: Monday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. - Bryce Harper had reached some major accomplishments in his career before the start of...

Relive "Nationals Classics": Extra-inning herorics and Scherzer's first no-no

Relive "Nationals Classics": Extra-inning herorics and Scherzer's first no-no
We're a little over a week away from Thanksgiving, so here are a couple of reminders that baseball is still in your life: * The GM meetings just wrapped up this past week in Scottsdale, Ariz.* The Winter Meetings are three weeks away in National Harbor, Md.* Nationals Winterfest is about a month away at the Washington Convention Center So there is still plenty of baseball to consume this offseason. And of course, MASN's "Nationals Classics" series continues this week to give you your...