Nationals Hitters Thrive with New Coach

On April 7th, the Washington Nationals hitters used to swing wild at the plate, chasing bad pitches and whiffing on good ones.

Last year, they posted a 22.6% strikeout rate and just a 7.4% walk rate landing 28th out of.

30 teams in walk-to-strike out ratio at 0.333.

Now with new hitting coach Matt Borg-Scholte calling the shots, the focus is on smart plans.

Key-holing specific pitches went ahead in the counter-crush, extra bases.

Just 10 games into the 2026 season, the whole line-ups buying in.

Walks are up to 9.7%, strikeouts down to 20.9%, boosting that ratio to 0.4611th best-in.

Baseball. It's not one or two guys, six hitters now top 0.50, compared to only two last year.

Take Brady House, his strikeouts ticked up from 28.5% to 30%, but walks triple to 10%.

His chase and whiff rates improve from league worst to near average, flipping his ratio from a

dismal 0.10 second worst qualified to point, throw, see, traject pitching machines are a big part of it,

mimicking real pitcher's angles down in the minors too, where prospects like Seever King are walking.

More already, keep an eye on these bats as pitchers adjust their attacks.

That's your update from Washington Nationals News Today, powered by AI.

I'm Corey with The Story.