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On October 4, 2009, the Nationals' last game of the season, the Nationals won after 15 innings, the longest game for the team as part of its Washington history. The Nationals also became the first team in MLB history to start the season losing seven in a row and close the season winning seven in a row.
On August 10, 2010, the Nationals unveiled a "Ring of Honor" [note 3] at Nationals Park to honor National Baseball Hall of Fame members who had played "significant years" for the Washington Nationals, original Washington Senators (1901–1960), expansion Washington Senators (1961–1971), Homestead Grays, or Montreal Expos.
The Washington Nationals of the 1870s were the first important baseball club in the capital city of the United States. They competed briefly in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (commonly referred to as the National Association), [ a ] the first fully-professional sports league in baseball.
The Nationals adopted similar colors to 1968–1971 Senators adding gold accents to a tilted version of the expansion Senators cursive "W" logo. [5] [6] In 2012, the Nationals won the NL East division championship and brought postseason baseball to Washington, D.C., for the first time in 79 years.
The (expansion) Washington Senators were mentioned several times in Tom Clancy's book Without Remorse. As they performed even worse than the team they replaced, they were the subject of an updated joke: "Washington: First in war, first in peace, and still last in the American League." When the current Nationals had their own struggles, the joke ...
This is a list of Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals owners and executives. ... Name Years Jim Fanning: 1969–1976 Charlie Fox: 1976–1978 John McHale:
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 Nationals made the playoffs for the first time since relocating to Washington in the 2012 season, with Games 3, 4, and 5 of the 2012 National League Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals being played in Nationals Park. Washington lost the NLDS three games to two.