History of professional baseball in Washington, D.C.

The original club used dark blue as its primary color, with a thick, sans-serif, red or white block "W" on its caps.

Varying shades of the Senators' red, white and blue colors are still used by their successor teams in Minnesota and Texas.

[5][6] In 2012, the Nationals won the NL East division championship and brought postseason baseball to Washington, D.C., for the first time in 79 years.

In 2014, the Nationals won their second NL East division championship in three years after defeating the Atlanta Braves, 3–0, on September 16, 2014.

In the NLDS of the same year, the Nationals lost to the San Francisco Giants, who went on to win the World Series.