Washington Nationals

The Washington Nationals may have to deal with losing superstar outfielder Bryce Harper to injury after the outfielder was scratched from the team's lineup for the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night because of left knee soreness, per the team's Twitter accoun

The most heralded, touted and celebrated team before the season started has used the first four-plus months of it to become easily the most disappointing.

The Washington Nationals have some of the most exciting prospects in baseball, and contrary to popular belief, they're not all starting pitchers. 

The Nationals do have a surplus at that position, but shortstop Trea Turner's late addition to the fray and the major league service that second baseman Wilmer Difo and reliever Abel De Los Santos have logged highlight the top talent in the rest of Washington's farm system. 

The Washington Nationals needed something.

Some sort of a boost, a spark, whatever, but it had to be the kind of performance that kick-started their stalling, sputtering second half. Because as things stood going into Saturday night, Washington was a flailing club in danger of falling out of arm’s reach of the rival, first-place New York Mets.

From the moment we first heard his name, we were told how great Bryce Harper would be.

Before the season, I could've written down the names of the Washington Nationals' five starting pitchers and it would have only been a slight exaggeration to submit that as a list of the team's top five All-Star Game candidates. 

But with the game just two weeks away, the Nationals' rotation is only likely to send one representative to Cincinnati. 

Admit it: Somewhere around the fifth inning of Max Scherzer's start Friday night against the Philadelphia Phillies, you were expecting history. Not just hoping for it or believing it was possible. You assumed it would happen.

Washington Nationals infielder Anthony Rendon has been placed on the disabled list for the second time this season. 

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The Washington Nationals' erratic first half of the season has been a learning experience for the fans as they come to grips with a team that may not, after all, be the first-ever 162-game winner, and for the clubhouse staff as they conduct detergent-related science experiments to get chocolate sauce out of jersey fabric. 

That asking price isn’t looking so outrageous right now.