At the beginning of the Major League Baseball season, Mark Reynolds didn’t even have a team. Eight weeks ago today, he was called up from the minors to play his first game of the season for the Washington Nationals. Last night he made history. The former UVA star went 5 for 5 last night against the Miami Marlins including 2 home runs, two singles and a double while driving in 10 runs. That not only tied the Nationals’ team record for RBI in a game (with Anthony Rendon) but put him in elite company as he became only the 15th […]

Mark Reynolds is on fire heading into today’s Washington Nationals’ home game against the Miami Marlins. Reynolds, who is UVa’s all-time home run king, tied a Nationals’ record record with a 10-RBI night on Saturday in Washington’s 18-4 win. He blasted two home runs in a 5-for-5 night that continued his spectacular weekend, which included a walk-off home run on Friday night also against the Marlins. “Yeah, that’s like a good two weeks,” Reynolds quipped to sportswriters after Saturday night’s performance. “These things don’t happen often. “I’ve been playing a long time and I’ve only had five [RBI in a […]

Brian O’Connor has worked wonders for the University of Virginia baseball program and at the same time enhanced the ACC’s national reputation in the sport by giving the conference its first national championship (2015) since Wake Forest’s in 1955. Now, it was time for O’Connor to do something for his country, and a little bit for himself. When the National Anthem played at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C., on Thursday night, prior to the U.S. game versus Chinese Taipei, O’Connor felt the spine-tingling chills any American coach or athlete has felt for his country. Standing alongside […]