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Sacrifice a chicken? Nationals injuries mounting

Washington Nationals catcher Sandy Leon, center, is helped off the field  during the fourth inning of baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, May 14, 2012 in Washington. Leon who was playing in his first major-league game was injured during a play at home plate. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a 48-hour span when a pair of catchers went on the disabled list and joined the starting left fielder and right fielder, the closer and the fill-in closer, Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson was talking aloud about “superstitions to change our luck.”

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Sacrifice a chicken? Nationals injuries mounting

Washington Nationals catcher Sandy Leon, center, is helped off the field  during the fourth inning of baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Monday, May 14, 2012 in Washington. Leon who was playing in his first major-league game was injured during a play at home plate. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a 48-hour span when a pair of catchers went on the disabled list and joined the starting left fielder and right fielder, the closer and the fill-in closer, Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson was talking aloud about “superstitions to change our luck.”

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Obama welcoming soccer champs to White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama welcomes Major League Soccer champions the LA Galaxy to the White House on Tuesday. He’ll also congratulate the team on its community service activities.

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Nats’ Johnson sticking with Rodriguez as closer

Washington Nationals relief pitcher Henry Rodriguez walks off the field after giving up a walk-off grand slam to Cincinnati Reds' Joey Votto in the ninth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, May 13, 2012, in Cincinnati. Cincinnati won 9-6. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson wants everyone to know that Henry Rodriguez is still the team’s closer. Oh, and Johnson would rather not be asked about Rodriguez anymore.

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Past lobbying becomes issue in Arizona Senate race

In this Dec. 15, 2006, file photo Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz, center, arrives at a Havana, Cuba, hotel, one in a delegation of U.S. lawmakers following leadership shifts there, and possibilities for change in U.S. policies towards the Island. In Flake's re-election race both a GOP primary opponent and Democrats are the six-term congressman as a Washington insider, because he worked as a lobbyist 20 years ago for a Namibian uranium operation with ties to Iran. Flake says he's long opposed unilateral penalties like sanctions, whether against Iran, Sudan, Cuba, Myanmar or any country, because he saw the damage sanctions can have on innocent people during his time in Nambia. (AP Photo/ Javier Galeano, File)

Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president.

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