2012 Washington Nationals season
98-64, the best record in baseball and the first NL East title in Washington.
The 2012 season was the Nationals' eighth in Washington and their fifth at Nationals Park. They finished 98-64, the best record in Major League Baseball, and won the franchise's first National League East title.
Quick Facts
- Season
- 2012
- League
- National League
- Division
- East
- Ballpark
- Nationals Park
- City
- Washington, D.C.
- Record
- 98–64 (.605)
- Divisional place
- 1st
- Owners
- Lerner Enterprises
Facts from the source article.
Background
On September 3 the Nationals won their 82nd game, the first winning season since the move to Washington. A 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 20 clinched the franchise's first postseason berth since 1981 and the first for a Washington team since the Senators' 1933 pennant. The division was clinched on October 1, when the Atlanta Braves lost to Pittsburgh, and a 5-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on October 3 closed the season with baseball's best record. The Nationals played 20 extra-inning games, more than any other team. In the Division Series they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals three games to two.
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