Nats pitcher Gio Gonzalez yesterday compared pitching on a cold night to making love with his hand. Go ahead, snicker away.

With 99 innings pitched so far this season, Stephen Strasburg is well on his way to hitting the inning limit the Nationals set for him. But Strasburg is intent on pitching through the end of the season.

One reason the Nationals are doing so well in the early stages of the 2012 baseball season: Their starting pitchers throw the hardest fastballs in all of Major League Baseball.

It’s been a blasé season for the Washington Nationals. Most people expected this. But when the highlights of the season so far have been dollar-ticket night, the debut of the JFK racing president costume and somehow managing to float around .500 despite hitting an anemic .228 as a team, well, fans of the team could really use something positive to look forward to. Like, say, the return of Stephen Strasburg!