Stephen Strasburg is ready — and so is the Washington Nationals' ticket office. The Nationals said after Monday's 14-4 win over Houston that their prized pitching prospect will make his major league debut against Pittsburgh on June 8 at Nationals Park. The 21-year-old right-hander is first scheduled to start for Triple-A Syracuse at Buffalo on Thursday.

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Strikeout rates are up, but that can’t really explain three perfect games in less than a year and two in a month.

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Nick Hundley was surrounded by a pack of reporters and cameramen when the San Diego Padres' other catcher, Yorvit Torrealba, walked by and offered an unsolicited opinion. "He's the best catcher on this team, I'm telling you," Torrealba said. With the San Diego Padres these days, that's hard to tell.

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Nick Hundley and Mat Latos form quite the battery for the San Diego Padres. Hundley hit a three-run home run in the first inning and Latos won his fourth straight decision as the San Diego Padres beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 on Saturday night. Hundley, who has been splitting time at catcher with Yorvit Torrealba, accounted for all four Padres runs.

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Washington Nationals prospect Stephen Strasburg allowed three runs in five innings in a minor league start for the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs on Saturday night against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. The hard-throwing right-hander allowed six hits and two walks, and surrendered his first professional home run to former major leaguer Rene Rivera in the third inning.

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Outfielder Justin Maxwell has been optioned back to Triple-A Syracuse by the Washington Nationals. The Nationals announced the move after Friday night's 5-3 victory at the San Diego Padres. Maxwell is hitting .121, with four hits in 33 at-bats over 21 games with Washington this season.

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The Washington Nationals have protested Friday night's game against the San Diego Padres due to an incorrect lineup card. After the top of the first inning, Washington manager Jim Riggleman, Padres manager Bud Black and all four umpires met at the plate. After several minutes, it was announced in the press box that the Padres' official lineup card listed Adam Russell as the starting…

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Washington Nationals slugger Adam Dunn was denied a home run Thursday against San Francisco after umpires used instant replay to uphold their original ruling. Dunn, who earlier homered in the first inning, appeared to hit his second off Giants starter Barry Zito with one out in the seventh. The ball sailed high and bounced off the top of the wall in right-center field.

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San Francisco's Freddy Sanchez got hit in the face by a spiked cleat from Washington's Justin Maxwell, then got up to deliver a bigger blow to the Nationals. Sanchez, who missed all of spring training and the first 38 games of the regular season recovering from shoulder surgery, hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning to cap a three-run rally and lift San…

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While the world can't seem to wait for Stephen Strasburg to make his Major League debut.

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