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Associated Press
Jul 11, 2025, 06:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- Fired Nationals wide manager Mike Rizzo wants to bargain a circular for fans astatine 2 sports bars successful Washington earlier adjacent week's All-Star Home Run Derby.
Rizzo posted connected societal media Friday an extended "thank you" to fans, which included an connection to bargain a "Round connected Riz" implicit a mates of hours earlier Monday's Home Run Derby successful Atlanta.
Rizzo and manager Dave Martinez were fired Sunday with the last-place Nationals headed for a sixth consecutive losing play since winning their archetypal World Series successful 2019.
The moves came with the Nats holding the No. 1 prime successful this weekend's amateur draft. Mike DeBartolo was named interim GM.
Rizzo had been wide manager since 2009 and added the rubric of president of shot operations 4 years later.
"From the bottommost of my heart, I privation to convey each and each instrumentality who has supported my extremity to pb this franchise to greatness with integrity, honesty and professionalism," Rizzo wrote. "D.C. has go our location successful each consciousness of the connection and I could not ideate a amended spot to person done it each unneurotic than the nation's capital."
