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Record All-time Active Currently with team Batting (as of November 30th, 2023) Games played: Ryan Zimmerman: 1799: Bryce Harper: 927: Victor Robles: 516 Batting average† Vladimir Guerrero.323: Trea Turner.300: Victor Robles.238 On-base percentage† Juan Soto.427: Juan Soto.427: Victor Robles.312 Slugging percentage† Vladimir Guerrero.588 ...
The Nationals have played at Nationals Park since 2008 A 1971 view of Jarry Park Stadium, where the Expos played from 1969 to 1976 The Montreal Olympic Stadium, Canada home of the Expos from 1977 until their move to Washington after the 2004 season A Nationals game in June 2005 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, where the team played from 2005 to 2007
The Washington Nationals' 2009 season was the fifth season for the American baseball franchise of Major League Baseball in the District of Columbia, and the 41st since the original team was started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It involved the Nationals attempting to win the National League East after a disappointing 59–102 season the year before.
[note 1] The first Washington Nationals team in a major league played in the American Association in 1884. [12] Another Washington Nationals team also played in the Union Association during its only season in 1884. [13] The first Washington Nationals of the National League played from 1886 to 1889. [14]
Between May 29 and June 15, 2005, the Nationals compiled a 15–2 record including a franchise record 10-game win streak (June 2–12). Ten of those games were decided by 1 run. On August 4, 2005, Brad Wilkerson became the first Washington Nationals player to ever hit a grand slam, against then Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Duaner Sánchez.
The 2007 Nationals also set the National League record for not scoring a run in the first inning of their first 22 games. [23] On August 7, 2007, in a game against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park, Nationals pitcher Mike Bacsik gave up career home run number 756 to Barry Bonds, who broke a 33-year-old record previously held by Hank Aaron. [24]
On November 29, 2012, the Nationals traded minor-leaguer Alex Meyer to the Minnesota Twins for Denard Span. [1]On January 16, 2013, Washington took part in a three-team trade in which the Oakland Athletics sent A. J. Cole, Blake Treinen, and a player to be named later to the Nationals, the Nationals sent Michael Morse to the Seattle Mariners, and the Mariners sent John Jaso to the Athletics.
On March 30, the Washington Nationals played the Atlanta Braves in the first regular season major league baseball game in the new Nationals Park. In that game, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Zimmerman hit a walk-off home run off of the Braves' Peter Moylan , giving the Nationals a 3–2 win. [ 15 ]