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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
Hours before Jayson Werth's game-ending homer on a 13-pitch at-bat extended the Washington Nationals' surprising season, before a bullpen trio got eight consecutive outs via strikeouts, before Ian Desmond's acrobatic catch, a guy who isn't even on...
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Seattle Times
| 7 months ago
Originally published Friday, October 12, 2012 at 1:53 AM Before Werth's walkoff, a rousing speech for Nats Hours before Jayson Werth's game-ending homer on a 13-pitch at-bat extended the Washington Nationals' surprising season, before a bullpen trio...
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Sacramento Bee
| 7 months ago
The ball tore a hole in the cold October air and headed toward the Capitol dome. Jayson Werth tossed his bat and pointed to the home dugout at Nationals Park...Werth's teammates charged out of their dugout, and the raucous fans exulted, all of them...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
Sportswriters root for people, the good story, not teams. The Giants ' winning clubhouse was full of such stories Thursday, but Dusty Baker might be the best, most interesting person I've ever met in baseball. He deserves more than a career of...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
The San Francisco Giants became the first team to secure a place in the final four of the Major League Baseball playoffs, and they did it in unique style, with Thursday's 6-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds capping three straight road wins to overturn a...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
It's Thursday around noon, and a column is due, but it's 1970 and I'm playing hooky...Gloriously sunny, rapturously dramatic, midweek playoff baseball. I'm sitting in my living room in the middle of the day watching the San Francisco Giants playing...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Washington won 2-1 to tie the series 2-2 in the best of five playoff. Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Jayson Werth extended Washington's season Thursday with a ninth-inning home run that boosted the Nationals to a 2-1 decision over St...The blast by Werth, coming...
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Herald Tribune
| 7 months ago
Louis Cardinals in Game 4 of the National League baseball division series on Thursday in Washington. The Nationals won 2-1, sending the series to a deciding fifth game. AP Sports Writer Published: Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 10:16 p.m...Joyous,...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
Jayson Werth drilled a ninth-inning, walk-off home run to lead the Washington Nationals to a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday (Friday, PHL time) and set up one-game showdown in the National League Division Series. On the 13th...
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NY Daily News
| 7 months ago
Jayson Werth walk-off home run gives Washington Nationals 2-1 win over St. Game 5 The former Philly, brought to Washington as a free agent in part to instill a winning culture, hit the homer off Lance Lynn in the 13th pitch of his at-bat, leading off...
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International Herald Tribune
| 7 months ago
Yankees There is no feeling in baseball quite as helpless as standing on deck when the season ends...Two Octobers ago, Werth was one pitch from a chance at glory. His Philadelphia Phillies were down in a playoff series, facing elimination, striving...
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The Idaho Statesman
| 7 months ago
Lance Lynn needed only a few words to describe a 13-pitch at-bat. "Three-two heater...Louis Cardinals reliever, of course, but the answers were more or less the same. He went mano-a-mano with Jayson Werth in the bottom of the ninth inning of a...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
Yankees That anxiety turned to ecstasy in the bottom of the ninth, when Jayson Werth rocketed a home run over the left-field fence to give the Washington Nationals a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in this National League division series and...
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Herald Net
| 7 months ago
The Washington Nationals signed Jayson Werth to show them how to win. His game-ending homer Thursday night extended their surprising season. Werth led off the bottom of the ninth inning by driving Lance Lynn's 13th pitch into the left-field stands to...