Ronald Washington (born April 29, 1952) is an American professional baseball manager, coach, and former infielder.

Washington played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros in a career that began in 1977 and ended in 1989.

He then played one season each for the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, and Houston Astros before retiring from Triple-A Oklahoma City in 1990.

[citation needed] On May 28, 1988, while playing for the Indians, Washington broke up Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Odell Jones' no-hit bid after 8+1⁄3 innings with a pinch-hit single.

In 2004, Chavez expressed his appreciation by giving Washington one of his Gold Glove trophies, signed "Wash, not without you."

Washington is shown in a positive light for the way he trained Scott Hatteberg to field first base for the first time in his career despite initial skepticism, but also as too old-fashioned and traditional in his lack of acceptance of general manager Billy Beane's sabermetric strategies.

On November 6, 2006, the Texas Rangers announced that Washington had accepted their offer to manage the team[4] replacing Buck Showalter, who was fired a month earlier.

Washington beat out four other candidates for the job: Rangers bench coach Don Wakamatsu, then New York Mets third base coach Manny Acta, Nippon Ham Fighters manager Trey Hillman[5] and former Rangers catcher John Russell.

On October 12, 2010, Washington became the first manager in franchise history to win a playoff series, with a 3–2 victory in the ALDS over the Tampa Bay Rays.

That year, he led the Rangers to a five-game lead in the race for the AL West title over the Oakland Athletics on September 24, but lost seven of the last nine games and the team was relegated to the inaugural AL Wild Card Game, which they lost 5–1 to the Baltimore Orioles.

[12] On September 11, 2014, it was announced by several media outlets that Ron Washington's resignation may be related to allegations of sexual assault against a reporter.

The Braves opted to promote interim manager Brian Snitker instead, and then announced the hiring of Washington as their new third base coach, replacing Bo Porter.