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Stephen Strasburg has emerged as one of the National League’s best pitchers. Since the start of the 2015 season, Strasburg has pitched to a 41-15 record, a 3.14 ERA and averaged 181 strikeouts, all while leading the Washington Nationals to consecutive post season appearances in 2016 and 2017. Strasburg’s 2017 was statistically his best season with a dominant 15-4 record and sublime 2.52 ERA, which placed him third in Cy Young voting.
Offered here is a tremendous game used Washington Nationals alternate navy jersey from Stephen Strasburg’s 2017 season. Confirmed by the game used experts Sports Investors Authentication from Nationals’ team sources, this jersey was worn by Strasburg for three games – April 14th (3-2 win over Philadelphia, 7 IP, 2 ER, 8 K’s), September 17th (7-1 win over the Dodgers, 6 IP, 0 ER, 8 K’s) and September 29th (6-1 victory over Pittsburgh, 7.2 IP, 0 ER, 8 K’s). All told that is 2-0 record with 20 2/3 innings pitched, two earned runs and 24 strikeouts. The two wins were his 14th and 15th of the season.
This navy size 52 button-down Majestic FlexBase Nationals jersey has the Washington “W” sewn on in American Flag colors on the upper left chest. Strasburg’s number “37” is sewn on the upper right chest in white and red tackle twill. Red and white piping are linked together and run around the collar and down both sides of the buttons and along the sleeve ends. The left sleeve has the Nationals’ logo patch, which is above the Majestic logo that is embroidered in white. The back of the jersey has the vinyl MLB logo patch above the piping, with “STRASBURG” and his number “37” sewn on in red and white tackle twill. The Majestic FlexBase size 52 tag is screen-printed on the bottom front left tail, while an additional Majestic tag is screen printed vertically on the inside right-center front tail and has “#37 2017 52 651” markings. This jersey comes full authenticated with a LOA from Sports Investors Authentication (180412A5), who have photo matched this jersey to the September 29th game and additionally state that this jersey originated directly from the team.