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		<title>Nats In Talks With Twins On Denard Span</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nationals search for a centerfielder and lead-off hitter is heating up, according to Ken Rosenthal, who says that Washington&#8217;s front office is interested in acquiring outfielder Denard Span from the Minnesota Twins. Rosenthal adds that closer &#8220;[Drew] Storen may be in play.&#8221; This is not the first time that the Nationals have talked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Capps Trade In Retrospect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Matt Capps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The minute that Matt Capps signed a free agent contract with the Washington Nationals he must have known that the team would eventually trade him. But that feeling didn&#8217;t lessen his commitment to the Nats. After a disappointing &#8217;09 campaign in Pittsburgh (4-8, 5.80 ERA, while giving up an ugly 73 hits over 54.1 innings), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duck Duck Goose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam Dunn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought it only appropriate that &#8220;the loyal opposition&#8221; should return at precisely the moment that my first date in Washington (here she is, and take a good look) arrived for our lovely evening. And if by &#8220;lovely evening&#8221; you mean watching the Washington Nationals and turning their victory into fake reporting then you&#8217;re right: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sad But True . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam Dunn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest Nats news on Thursday was not the welcome pitching performance of Nats starter Scott Olsen, but the departure of Nats closer Matt Capps &#8212; who packed his bags for Minneapolis, where he will join the perennially in-the-hunt Twinkies. The sad-but-true baseball news cycle is likely to remain that way for at least the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Capps . . . And Dean Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Capps pitched to David Ortiz in Anaheim on Tuesday night &#8212; it was just one-third of an inning in the Mid-Summer Classic &#8212; but that was enough for the Washington Nationals reliever to register a win, a point of pride for fans of the Anacostia Nine. Capps whiffed &#8220;Big Poppy&#8221; on five pitches, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats End Slump, 2-1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Livan Hernandez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday&#8217;s 2-1 win at Nationals Park may be taken as &#8220;Exhibit #1&#8243; that pitching &#8212; good pitching &#8212; wins ballgames. While the Nationals squeezed out only three hits against the more-than-mediocre Bruce Chen (et. al.), Livan Hernandez mastered the Royals line-up through seven complete innings, scattering eight hits and striking out five. The Nats relied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullpen Sinks Pirates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball Cards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Nationals took the second in a three game set against the Pirates on Wednesday, though the 7-5 victory was much less cleanly played than the previous night&#8217;s 5-2 drubbing. Still, a victory is a victory, and the sloppily played triumph will enter the win column &#8212; and lift the Nats to within two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strasburg (W, 1-0), Capps (S, 19)</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/pitching/strasburg-w-1-0-clippard-h-13-capps-s-19</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If, during Spring Training, you had asked Nats skipper Jim Riggleman to sketch out a &#8220;model&#8221; Nationals win, he might have said something like this: a strong and intimidating strike-throwing no-walks every-fifth-day sure-thing starter followed by a middle inning lights-out reliever, finishing with an unhittable closer who strikes fear into the opposition. And the bats? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats Drop 2 of 3; Stammen Demoted</title>
		<link>http://www.centerfieldgate.com/cincinnati-reds/nats-drop-2-of-3-stammen-demoted</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Nationals dropped an ten inning contest to the Cincinnati Reds 5-4 on Sunday, losing two of three to the surging Concepcions. The Nats have now lost ten of their last fourteen and have dropped to four games under .500. The Sunday loss was particularly painful, as usually reliable Nats reliever Matt Capps dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nats, Capps Defrock Friars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 18:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Capps pitched out of a based loaded jam in the ninth inning to preserve a Washington Nationals and John Lannan win in San Diego, 5-3. The victory marked an all-the-way back start for the Washington mainstay, who had his best outing of the year &#8212; a seven inning, seven hit semi-gem that fed off [...]]]></description>
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