Oh, those sometimes woeful Washington Nationals. Maybe it was the Icarian pre-season projections that have made this two-month-old season so frustrating.

Johnson guided the Washington Nationals to the best regular-season record in Major League Baseball.

The Washington Nationals are deeply appreciative of the outpouring of support they received from D.C. this year. But if you bought tickets for playoff games that didn’t happen, you won’t be getting all your money back.

Cal Ripken Jr. addressed publicly today the recent kidnapping of his 74-year-old mother, who was abducted last week from her home in Aberdeen, Md. and later found after being missing for a day.

Vi Ripken, mother of Baltimore Orioles Hall-of-Famer Cal Ripken Jr., was abducted yesterday from her home in Aberdeen, Md., police said. She was found unharmed early Wednesday.

Stephen Strasburg, Gio Gonzalez and Ian Desmond will represent the Nationals at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game later this month, and it’s possible that Bryce Harper could join them.

Stephen Strasburg, known better for his prowess on the mound, contributed to his own win yesterday when he hit his first career home run against the Baltimore Orioles.

After creating an international incident when they attempted to sign a high-school pitcher, the Baltimore Orioles have been banned from scouting players in South Korea.

Candidates in next Tuesday’s special election to fill two open D.C. Council seats have collectively raised over $1 million in the course of the campaign. Voters will chose council members for Wards 4 and 7, after those positions were left empty by Mayor Adrian Fenty and at-large Council Chairman Vincent Gray. Voters in D.C. Public Schools’ Second District will also elect a school board representative. In Ward 4, ANC Commissioner Muriel Bowser leads the pack…

For Nationals fans among the 1.6 million Comcast subscribers in the area, the wait is over. After an acrimonious 15 months of squabbling, Comcast and MASN have settled their differences. This weekend, Comcast agreed to broadcast MASN-produced Nationals games for its area subscribers. The dispute originated from MLB’s attempt to relocate the Montreal Expos to DC. Peter Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles, raised a ruckus, believing that his fan-base would diminish, given to…