One of the perks of being mayor or a member of the D.C. Council is free tickets to suites at both the Verizon Center and Nationals Park. One of the problems that every mayor and member of the D.C. Council seems to have without fail? Free tickets to suites at both the Verizon Center and Nationals Park. more ›

The Nationals blurted out yesterday which major league stadium the team thinks is best. Spoiler alert: It's not Nationals Park. more ›

This Saturday, Nationals Park may achieve a feat it usually doesn't during the regular season—a full house. But it won't be the Nats attracting the crowds, but rather inoffensive and approachable spiritual televangelist Joel Osteen. more ›

The owners of the Washington Nationals continue trying just about everything to ensure that the three-game series in D.C. in early May doesn't become an opportunity for Phillies fans to crawl out of the woodwork and make Nats Park their temporary home. more ›

Well, at least this year we'll have something to look forward to in September at Nationals Park. Bruce Springsteen is returning to Washington for a concert at the stadium on September 14. more ›

We've long known that fans of the Philadelphia Phillies are an obnoxious, slovenly, politically sleazy bunch. And now they're threatening to "occupy" Nationals Park. Yeesh. more ›

Yesterday we told you about the newest menu item at Nationals Park: The Strasburger an eight-pound behemoth of ground beef, melted cheese and other toppings. How does this one stack up against previous Strasburgers. more ›

While pitchers and catchers were checking into Spring Training down in Florida, the Washington Nationals opened their ballpark to auditions for people trying to become one of the team's famous racing presidents. more ›

Soon enough, Nationals fans will be able to complain vociferously about how raucous Yankees fans ruined their day at the ballpark, too! more ›

Nationals Park is now three-and-a-half years old, but outside of hosting 81 games of baseball every year, the place kind of sits there, mostly unused. Aside from its main tenants, the stadium has hosted a mass by Pope Benedict XVI, a few opera simulcasts, and a couple of rock concerts. But shouldn't a building that cost the city over $600 million be in use year-round? more ›

The Washington Nationals are playing some very good baseball these days. That said, it shouldn't come as a surprise that, as the team has played better, attendance has responded. more ›

Okay, enough snark -- this video of Washingtonian online account executive Matt Hendrickson proposing to his girlfriend after beating Teddy in a footrace is kind of wonderful. more ›

Strasburg watchers, take note! Teddy’s Team Blog cites "a source close to the Nationals" who pegs the return date of Stephen Strasburg to the Nationals Park mound on September 6. more ›

Yeah, it's way too hot to be getting upset about the negative news of the day. more ›

Washington Nationals Chief Operating Officer Andy Feffer is really excited about the opening of several new restaurants, including Shake Shack, at his team's ballpark this afternoon. So much so, in fact, that he's apparently forgotten that his business lies primarily in baseball, not delicious custard treats and happy hours. more ›

The Nationals aren't oblivious to the fact that a mid-May Monday night home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates probably won't be a big draw. (After all, when the Nats visited Pittsburgh on a rainy night in late April, less than 3,000 people showed up.) But slashing the cost of tickets and food? That just might get a few more people through the turnstiles. more ›

After President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden late Sunday night, it became all hands on deck time for authorities. The Metropolitan Police Department, the Metro Transit Police, Mayor Vince Gray and the Department of Homeland Security all kicked into high gear, upping vigilance, putting more cops on the city's trains and buses, and even reminding people to watch out for things like "threats from retaliating lone wolves" inside offices. So while experts admit that an attack there would be "unlikely," it's hardly a surprise that the District's youngest sports facility might get in on the security uptick. more ›

Was the highlight of last night's chilly Nationals-Phillies tilt the spirited ninth-inning rally made by the Nationals? Perhaps it was the eight innings of sparkling pitching by Phillies starter Roy Halladay? Or maybe it was the how most of the audience seemed content to sit in their seats, obsessively staring at their smartphones, occasionally voicing their displeasure that the Capitals were trailing the New York Rangers? Think again! more ›

In a not-totally-unexpected development, Mayor Vince Gray was roundly booed as he delivered the ceremonial "Play Ball" before today's Nationals home opener. Of course, the easy explanation is that the crowd really laid into Gray because of the generally poor job people believe he's done over his first three months in office. Add in the gloomy weather and its no surprise that the boo-birds ruffled their feathers. more ›

Tom Sietsema dropped a huge bomb for those following the progress of Shake Shack's arrival in the District -- the roadside burger joint that just started hiring at its 1216 18th Street NW location will apparently have an outlet inside Nationals Park this season. more ›

Are you in possession of tickets for Thursday's Opening Day at Nationals Park and holding out hope that you'd get a chance to see President Barack Obama toss out the first pitch like he did last year? Well, you'll have to settle for simply enjoying some baseball during the middle of the day and a free cap -- Obama won't be uncorking his lefty curve this year like he did in 2010. more ›

A six-person byline focusing on the "timeline of the whitening of D.C." which includes statements like "[bike] lanes manage to merge with the city's history of framing everything in black and white terms," touches on Tony Williams' blackness, the banning of single beer sales, Borf, and HOPE VI in Arthur Capper/Carollsburg, and concludes that "the flood of pale-complexioned fans into the stadium in Southeast...is a reminder of how big a change those curly “W” hats represent"? If this story represents TBD's swan song as a news organization, well, they're going out with a bang. (Appropriately enough: it's even got a correction.) more ›

Look, we all had a good time with the whole "Natinals" debacle. Laughing at high-profile misspellings is fun -- especially when it comes to the Nationals, whose play at the time of that mistake wasn't doing anything to distract us from poking fun. But we didn't think that the Nationals were so determined to wipe that incident from their memory that they would completely eliminate the team's name from their new home uniform. more ›

There's been quite a bit of chatter today about last night's Nationals crowd, a paltry group of 10,999 that was the lowest attendance recorded at a Nationals home game since they relocated to Washington in 2005. more ›

Neighborhood blog JDLand reported last week that ANC 6D voted to support a proposal by the Capitol Riverfront Business Improvement District to add more words to the Navy Yard Metrorail station name. The BID is angling to alter the title to some kind of combination of "Capitol Riverfront/Ballpark/Navy Yard" -- while the ANC also voted in support of adding "Arena Stage" to the Waterfront/SEU station name. more ›