Attendees included World Central Kitchen leadership and volunteers, Nationals ownership and front office executives, and several food access partners that helped serve the community last year.

It was a strategy that has not paid off, with the offseason additions providing very little positive impact on the team. ... Mike Rizzo Takes Shot at Nationals Ownership Group After Surprise Firing.

Lerner’s statement, naturally, made no mention of ownership’s own culpability. The Nationals had a top-10 payroll seven of eight seasons between 2014 and 2021.

Cue six years of nondescript misery, best evidenced by the number of days spent over .500: 2020: 0. 2021: 4, the last on June 30. 2022: 0. 2023: 0. 2024: 2, the last on May 10.

In firing their president of baseball operations and their manager in a startling Sunday night massacre, Washington Nationals ownership exhibited something not readily apparent in the highest ...