Nationals bringing back coaches

WASHINGTON — All seven members of manager Dusty Baker’s Washington Nationals major league coaching staff will return to the team for the 2017 season.

The team made the announcement Thursday via Twitter.

Among the coaches sticking around for next season: pitching coach Mike Maddux, hitting coach Rick Schu, bench coach Chris Speier, first base coach Davey Lopes and third base coach Bob Henley.

It was Henley who waved Jayson Werth home in a bid to score from first on Ryan Zimmerman’s double in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers last week. Werth was easily thrown out, and the Nationals went on to lose, 4-3.

The Nationals won 95 games and the NL East title in Baker’s first season as their manager.

Marlins

The families of two men who died in a boat crash off Miami Beach that also killed pitcher Jose Fernandez have hired an attorney to handle their sons’ estates. Attorney Chris Royer of the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., law firm Krupnick Campbell, told the Sun Sentinel he’s representing the families of 27-year-old Emilio Jesus Macias and 25-year-old Eduardo “Eddy” Rivero, who also died Sept. 25 when Fernandez’ 32-foot boat slammed into a jetty. Royer says he’ll await results of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s investigation before making further comments. Also Thursday, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Paul Thomas said the Coast Guard will examine lighting on the jetty involved in the crash.

Elsewhere

Actor Charlie Sheen, who played the bespectacled Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn in the movie “Major League,” has offered to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before one of this year’s World Series games.