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"We haven't been playing that well this year, but this kind of pushes us forward going into next year. Definitely a nice memory." -- Justin Maxwell, Sept. 30, 2009. THE RESULT: Justin Maxwell hit a walk-off grand slam against New York Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez, giving the Washington Nationals a 7-4 winùon Fan Appreciation Day and their last home game of the seasonùbefore 23,944 screaming Nats faithful. When the Mets scored an ...

á "I'm not stupid; you can play a lot of close games and be a bad ballclub. But the difference between us and the other clubs is not that wide a gap...We just made some mistakes." ùInterim manager Jim Riggleman after Sunday's loss, Sept. 27, 2009. The Results The Atlanta Braves rode into the nation's capital and rolled out with three more wins, sweeping the homestanding Washington Nationals by scores of 4-1, 11-5, and ...

With the season winding down and the playoff races settledùbarring anáunforeseen collapseùit's a good time to look at Major League Baseball and see if we're satisfied with the product. This season has seen the perennial powerhouses, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, dominate the competition once again.á Big market clubs in Los Angeles will both march in the postseason parade, and defending champion Philadelphia feasted on its weak sisters ...

"Where do you go? Where do you look? You look at yourself first. Tonight it was me. Other nights everybody has had a chance to pull through or do the right things, and unfortunately for us it hasn't been that way too much. Talent is one thing, and not getting it done is another." --Ron Villone, Sept. 24, 2009. THE RESULT:á Despite three different comebacks, the Washington Nationals eventually fell to ...

  "I thought it was a good time to go. I figured [McDonald] wasn't really worried about me after us moving the runner on the bunt." —Justin Maxwell, on stealing third in the ninth with one out, Sept. 23, 2009. The Result The Washington Nationals scored runs in the eighth and ninth innings, taking a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, before 18,635 at Nationals Park. The win staves off loss No. 100 ...

THE RESULT:  The playoff-bound Los Angeles Dodgers used the cellar-dwelling Washington Nationals as a punching bag Tuesday night, pounding out 14 runs on 15 hits, five walks and three Nats' errors (though it should have been four) in a 14-2 victory. The loss drops the Nationals to 51-99 on the season. Washington was done in by two really bad innings, a seven-run fourth and six-run seventh.  Starter Livan Hernandez (L, 8-12, 5.53) ...