Spider-Man might have suited up on Wednesday during the Nationals-Tigers game. In actuality, though, it was Nationals center ...

In the ninth inning of Washington's 9-4 win over the Detroit Tigers, Young started tracking a deep shot from Riley Greene ...

The Nationals center fielder climbed the wall to take a home run away from the Tigers in Washington's 9-4 win over Detroit.

Jacob Young tore through the Nationals system last season and arrived in the majors in August. When he got there, he found an ally in Lane Thomas.

Young went 2-for-4 with a stolen base in Saturday's 6-5 loss to the Brewers.

In the bottom half, Young fell behind 0-1 again before floating an RBI single to center off right-handed reliever Sam Coonrod. He came around to score later in the inning as part of a four-run rally.

Jacob Young was hitting too many groundballs with low-A Fredericksburg. So one day last summer, Delwyn Young grabbed a lacrosse stick that belonged to the son of Fredericksburg’s pitching coach ...

TORONTO — There was Jacob Young, 297 feet away in center field, heaving a Hail Mary that, as it came out of his hand, didn’t appear to have a chance, even as not-so-fleet-footed Toronto Blue ...

Before Jacob Young jogged onto the field for the Washington Nationals’ 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves that opened Sunday’s doubleheader, he was handed a reminder of how far he had come.

Jacob Young will have to figure this out. Third basemen now park at the lip of the grass. Shortstops charge his groundballs with more haste. Pitchers throw more fastballs once he’s on base.

INDIANAPOLIS --Jacob Young and his brothers would dig out the old tapes from his father’s college basketball career and watch them with a sense of wonder. The short shorts.