2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 3, October 9
Leadoff hitter Trea Turner finished Game 3 having gone 0-for-12 in the series with five strikeouts and had not reached base, while Anthony Rendon was 1-for-10 and Daniel Murphy, batting cleanup, was 1-for-11. While Nats pitchers had posted a combined 1.96 ERA in the 2017 NLDS, the team's overall .121 batting average in the series was the lowest of any 2017 playoff team.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
Originally scheduled to begin at 5:38 p.m. EDT on October 10, Game 4 was postponed due to rain and rescheduled for 4:08 p.m. EDT on October 11. The Nationals had planned for Tanner Roark to start Game 4 on October 10, but Roark had struggled in his last two outings of the regular season and Washington, with a must-win situation in Game 4, considered taking advantage of the rainout to have the dominating Stephen Strasburg, who had posted an ERA of 0.76 in his last nine appearances, start instead on normal rest.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
However, the Nationals announced on the evening of October 10 after Game 4 had been postponed that Strasburg had come down with influenza-like symptoms after his October 6 appearance in Game 1 and was too ill to pitch Game 4, and that Roark would get the call on October 11, leading to much criticism by outside observers that Strasburg was perhaps too "soft" and too prone to health problems to pitch in the postseason. Plans changed again during the day on October 11 however, when Strasburg, after undergoing a regimen of antibiotics and intravenous fluids, told Nationals pitching coach Mike Maddux  that he felt well enough to pitch. Ultimately, Strasburg started Game 4.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
As they had in the NLDS in 2012 and 2014, the Nationals faced elimination in Game 4, which took place on a damp and chilly afternoon and evening with a strong breeze from Lake Michigan blowing in from the outfield, knocking down long fly balls for both teams that might have been home runs. Once, again, both teams enjoyed excellent outings by their starting pitchers.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
Although still recovering from his illness, Strasburg pitched an impressive seven shutout innings in which he threw 106 pitches, 72 of them for strikes, gave up only three hits and two walks, and struck out 12 Cubs, a new Montreal-Washington franchise postseason single-game strikeout record that broke the record Strasburg had set himself in Game 1 on October 6, when he had fanned 10 Cubs.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
The biggest Cubs scoring threat of his outing came in the bottom of the second inning, when Chicago third baseman Ben Zobrist  doubled with one out, then tagged and advanced to third on shortstop Addison Russell's fly out. Strasburg then walked center fielder Jason Heyward, but got second baseman Javier Báez to ground out to end the inning without the Cubs scoring.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
He allowed only one more Cub to reach second base, when catcher Willson Contreras singled and advanced to second on a Strasburg throwing error in the bottom of the fourth inning, but he struck out the side to extinguish that threat as well.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
Strasburg left the game having struck out 22 Cubs in his two 2017 NLDS appearances, becoming only the third MLB pitcher in history to strike out ten or more batters twice in the same division series and the first National League pitcher to do it in any postseason series since Bob Gibson for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1968 World Series. In his three career postseason playoff appearances combined - one in 2014 and two in 2017 - Strasburg had posted a 0.49 ERA over 19 innings, striking out 24 and issuing only four walks. In his last ten appearances of 2017 combined, including the two NLDS games, he had pitched to an ERA of 0.69.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
For Chicago, starter Jake Arrieta, returning to action after suffering a hamstring injury,  walked five Nats in four innings of work but allowed only two hits. He gave up only one run – unearned – when, in the top of the third inning, Washington shortstop Trea Turner, batting leadoff but 0-for-13 in the series, doubled with one out, reaching base for the first time in the NLDS, then advanced to third base on a wild pitch. Arrieta struck out left fielder Jayson Werth, then walked right fielder Bryce Harper, who stole second.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
After that, Cubs shortstop Addison Russell committed an error on Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman′s slow roller, allowing Turner to score and giving Washington a 1–0 lead before Arrieta struck out second basemen Daniel Murphy to end the inning.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
He faced another major scoring threat in the top of the fourth, when Washington third baseman Anthony Rendon led off with a double,  center fielder Michael A. Taylor  walked, Strasburg executed a textbook sacrifice bunt  to advance both runners, and Trea Turner walked to load the bases with two outs, but he struck out Werth again to end both the inning and his playoff outing, having struck out four Nats and allowed no earned runs.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
Jon Lester relieved Arrieta in the fifth and retired the first ten Nationals batters he faced, the last of them Bryce Harper, who led off the eighth inning and struck out. Ryan Zimmerman walked and attempted to rattle Lester – known for disliking throwing the ball to the bases – by taking long leads, but Lester uncharacteristically managed to pick him off first for the second out.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
However, the eighth inning proved to be the decisive one for the third time in the four games of the series. After Lester gave up a single to Daniel Murphy – only Murphy's second hit of the series – Cubs manager Joe Maddon brought in Carl Edwards Jr. to relieve him. Edwards promptly walked Anthony Rendon and catcher Matt Wieters to load the bases and threw ball one to Michael A. Taylor.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
In an attempt to shut down the scoring threat, Maddon then opted to bring in closer Wade Davis early, but Taylor overcame the evening's strong winds to hit Davis's second pitch into the "basket" fencing along the railing in right-center field for a grand-slam home run – the first postseason grand slam in the history of the Montreal-Washington franchise – and give Washington a 5–0 lead. Davis then gave up a single to pinch-hitter Adam Lind and walked Trea Turner. Finally, Cubs reliever Brian Duensing came in to induce a groundout by pinch-hitter Howie Kendrick and end the Nationals' two-out rally.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
Ryan Madson pitched the bottom of the eighth for Washington, giving up a walk and hitting a batter but allowing no hits or runs, and Nationals closer Sean Doolittle pitched a perfect ninth inning to preserve Washington's 5–0 victory, the first postseason win of Strasburg's career. The Nationals evened the series at 2–2 and forced a decisive Game 5 at Nationals Park the following evening.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 4, October 11
During the game, Chicago had gone 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position, Cubs left fielder Kris Bryant had struck out four times, and Chicago first baseman Anthony Rizzo had fanned twice. The Cubs finished Game 4 hitting only .159 as a team in the 2017 NLDS. Although the Nationals emerged from the game hitting only .130 as a team through the first four games of the series, Michael A. Taylor had gone 3-for-11 with two walks in the 2017 NLDS, and his 2017 postseason average stood at a team-best .273.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
For the third time in their four playoff appearances, the Nationals hosted Game 5 of the NLDS at Nationals Park. It was the fifth anniversary of their collapse there in Game 5 of the 2012 National League Division Series. Former Nationals outfielder Michael Morse threw the ceremonial first pitch. He later led the crowd in singing his walk-up song during his time with the Nationals, A-ha′s "Take On Me", during the seventh-inning stretch.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Gio González started his second game of the series and had a rocky outing. Chicago's leadoff hitter, left fielder Jon Jay, doubled on his second pitch. He lost his grip on his third pitch, and Jay advanced to third base when it sailed to the backstop. With one out, Jay scored on a ground-out by first baseman Anthony Rizzo to give the Cubs a 1–0 lead. González walked two more Cubs before getting out of the inning without further damage.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
In the bottom of the inning, with Chicago pitcher Kyle Hendricks making his second start of the series, Nationals shortstop Trea Turner led off with a double and advanced to third on a line out by left fielder Jayson Werth, but was thrown out at home while trying to score on a ground-out by right fielder Bryce Harper, and the Cubs preserved their early lead.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
González pitched a perfect second inning. In the bottom of the second, Washington second baseman Daniel Murphy homered to right on Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks′s first pitch to tie the game at 1–1. Third baseman Anthony Rendon followed with a single, then advanced to second when catcher Matt Wieters executed a perfect bunt single. Center fielder Michael A. Taylor then hit a three-run homer – his second consecutive home run in the series – to give Washington a 4–1 lead. After Hendricks got the first two outs of the inning, he gave up a double to Werth and the Cubs intentionally walked Harper, but Hendricks finally stopped the Nationals′ rally by striking out first baseman Ryan Zimmerman.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
González had more trouble in the top of the third inning, giving up a leadoff double to Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant. He struck out Anthony Rizzo, but then loaded the bases by issuing consecutive walks to catcher Willson Contreras and center fielder Albert Almora Jr. Bryant scored and the other runners advanced when shortstop Addison Russell grounded into the second out, and González followed that with a wild pitch to right fielder Jason Heyward that allowed Russell to take third base and Contreras to score, reducing the Nationals′ lead to 4–3.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
González finally ended the inning – and his season – by striking Heyward out. Hendricks gave up a single to Wieters in the third inning but otherwise retired the Nationals, and Matt Albers came in to pitch a perfect top of the fourth inning for Washington. The Nats mounted a two-out scoring threat in the bottom of the fourth when Werth and Harper singled back-to-back, but Hendricks got first baseman Ryan Zimmerman to pop out to end the inning.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
With Washington clinging to a 4–3 lead, Max Scherzer came in on short rest to pitch the top of the fifth inning for the Nationals – his first relief appearance since the 2013 American League Division Series, when he was with the Detroit Tigers – and quickly got two outs; Cubs officials in the stands later told the press that they were preparing for Scherzer to pitch three or four lockdown innings and preserve Washington's lead late into the game. Then the inning took a bizarre turn and descended into disaster for Washington.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Scherzer gave up consecutive singles to Willson Contreras and pinch-hitter Ben Zobrist and a bases-clearing double to Addison Russell that gave the Cubs a 5–4 lead. The Nationals intentionally walked Jason Heyward, and then Scherzer struck out second baseman Javier Báez for what should have been the third out. However, the third strike got past Wieters, and Báez ran to first on the passed ball.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Rather than hold the ball at home to prevent the Cubs from scoring, Wieters tried to throw out Báez at first, and his throw went into right field, allowing Russell to score, Heyward to advance to third, and Báez to reach second, and giving Chicago a 6–4 lead.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Wieters asked the umpires to declare the ball dead and the play a strikeout on the grounds of offensive interference, claiming Báez's bat had hit him in the back of the head on the backswing – a contention confirmed by video evidence – but the umpires made a controversial ruling that even if the bat had struck Wieters, it did not interfere with the play and did not merit a ruling that the ball was dead, and they let the play stand.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Next, Cubs pinch-hitter Tommy La Stella reached first base on a catcher's interference call against Wieters, loading the bases, and Scherzer followed that by hitting Jon Jay in the foot with a pitch, sending him to first and forcing in Heyward from third to increase Chicago's lead to 7–4. Kris Bryant returned to the plate as the tenth Cubs batter of the inning, and popped out on Scherzer's 28th pitch to bring the shocking inning to a close.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
After the game, Cubs manager Joe Maddon described the inning as "bizarro world," and Scherzer said, "I′m sure I′ve been in some crazy stuff before, but nothing like that." It was the first time in recorded MLB history, a total of some 2.73 million half-innings, that an intentional walk, a passed-ball strikeout, catcher's interference, and a hit batsman had ever occurred in a single half-inning.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
In the top of the sixth inning, the Cubs extended their lead to 8–4 when Zobrist, now playing left field, walked and Russell doubled – the ball rolling to the left-field wall right past a sliding Jayson Werth, who lost it in the stadium's lights – to drive Zobrist in. In the bottom of the sixth, the Nationals began to battle back. After getting the first two outs, Chicago reliever Pedro Strop walked Jayson Werth. Mike Montgomery relieved Strop and promptly gave up a double to Bryce Harper that advanced Werth to third.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Next, he walked Ryan Zimmerman on a wild pitch that allowed Werth to score – cutting Chicago's lead to 8–5 – and advanced Harper to third. Daniel Murphy followed with a double that scored Harper and advanced Zimmerman to third. After the Cubs intentionally walked third baseman Anthony Rendon, Montgomery finally got Wieters to end the inning by flying out with the Cubs leading 8–6.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
The Cubs came back to extend their lead in the top of the seventh when, with Sammy Solis pitching and one out, pinch-hitter Kyle Schwarber singled, Jon Jay singled and advanced Schwarber to third and, after Ryan Madson relieved Solis, Schwarber scored on a Kris Bryant groundout to give Chicago a 9–6 advantage. In the bottom of the seventh, the Nats scored again. Cubs reliever Carl Edwards Jr. walked leadoff hitter Michael A. Taylor and, after José Quintana relieved Edwards and got the first out, Trea Turner singled, Werth walked to load the bases, and Harper scored Taylor from third with a sacrifice fly to cut the Cubs lead again, to 9–7.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
After Madson retired all three Cubs he faced in the top of the eighth, the Nationals staged their final rally in the bottom of the inning. Joe Maddon had called in Cubs closer Wade Davis to get the last out of the seventh inning and kept him in to pitch the eighth and ninth in the hope that he would get a seven-out save, an unusually long outing for him. Davis started the eighth by walking Daniel Murphy and Anthony Rendon, but then got pinch-hitter Adam Lind to ground into a double play that advanced Murphy to third.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Michael A. Taylor then singled to drive in Murphy and cut Chicago's lead to 9–8, and light-hitting catcher José Lobatón who had replaced Wieters in the game, singled, advancing Taylor to second. With Davis clearly tiring and the top of the Nationals′ order coming to bat, Washington's hopes rose that they could at least tie the game. Trea Turner came to the plate and had worked his at-bat to a 2–1 count when catcher Willson Contreras threw to first to pick off Lobatón. Lobatón was called safe, but the Cubs challenged the call and the video replay revealed that Lobatón's foot had lost contact with the bag for less than a second while Anthony Rizzo was applying the tag. Lobatón was ruled out, and the inning ended.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Nationals closer Sean Doolittle set the Cubs down in order in the top of the ninth, and Davis – completing his longest outing since 2012 – returned to retire Turner, Werth, and Harper in the bottom of the ninth, throwing 44 pitches in his outing, 10 more than he had thrown in any single appearance during the regular season. The season ended on a Harper strikeout on a full count. Despite going 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position and walking nine Nationals hitters, the Cubs won the 4-hour 37-minute game 9–8 and the series 3–2 and advanced to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 National League Championship Series.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Although they had 23 baserunners in the game, 13 of whom they left on base, the Nationals' season ended with elimination in the NLDS, as in their previous three postseason appearances, and it was the third time that they had played Game 5 of an NLDS at home and lost, the only MLB team other than the Oakland Athletics to lose more than one NLDS Game 5 at home over the previous decade.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
The Nationals became only the second team in MLB history to draw at least nine walks and score at least eight runs in a postseason game and still lose, the only previous team to do it having been the 1997 Cleveland Indians in the 1997 World Series. It was the eighth time the Nationals had played a one-run game in their postseason history, and they had lost all eight.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
It was the tenth time in a row that a team managed by Dusty Baker had lost a postseason game in which it had a chance to advance to the next round of the playoffs. Summing up the Nationals′ evening in a postgame interview, Jayson Werth said, "It feels like everything that could go wrong, did...I can't believe we lost that game."


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Game 5 of the NLDS was Baker's last as manager of the Nationals. On October 20, the Nationals announced that Baker, who was in the final year of his two-year contract in 2017, would not return in 2018.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
During an interview with Chris Russo on SiriusXM′s Mad Dog Sports Radio  on October 26, MLB Chief Baseball Officer Joe Torre, whose portfolio includes oversight of MLB umpiring, said that the umpires had made an incorrect call on Matt Wieters's passed ball during Baez's fifth-inning at-bat.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Game 5, October 12
Torre said that under Rule 6.03, Javier Báez should have been called for offensive interference and that calling the ball dead should have taken precedence, which would have ended the inning on a strikeout instead of allowing two Cubs runners to score on the passed ball and Wieters's subsequent throwing error in a game that Chicago won by one run. He added that Dusty Baker could have requested a rules review on the play, but did not, and therefore the umpires′ ruling stood.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Postseason, Division Series, Television
Broadcast on TBS, Game 5 of the 2017 NLDS earned a television rating of 14.0 in the Washington, D.C., market, making it the second-most-watched game in Montreal-Washington franchise history, exceeded only by the viewership five years earlier to the day for Game 5 of the 2012 National League Division Series between the Nationals and the St. Louis Cardinals. The telecast earned a 22.9 rating in the Chicago market.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Statistics, Regular season, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Walks; SO = Strikeouts; Avg. = Batting average; OBP = On Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging Percentage; SB = Stolen bases


2017 Washington Nationals season, Statistics, Regular season, Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


2017 Washington Nationals season, Statistics, Postseason, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Walks; SO = Strikeouts; Avg. = Batting average; OBP = On Base Percentage; SLG = Slugging Percentage; SB = Stolen bases


2017 Washington Nationals season, Statistics, Postseason, Pitching
Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, All-Stars
First baseman Ryan Zimmerman, second baseman Daniel Murphy, and right fielder Bryce Harper were voted onto the National League All-Star roster as starting position players, while starting pitchers Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg were also selected to the team. For Zimmerman and Murphy, it was their first time being voted in as starters, while it was Harper's fourth start and fifth overall selection. Murphy was also an All-Star in 2016, although he was not a starter, and Zimmerman was an All-Star in 2009. Scherzer was named an All-Star for the fifth consecutive year. Strasburg was named to the All-Star team for the third overall time. Harper was the top overall vote-getter from the National League. Future National Brandon Kintzler, closer for the Minnesota Twins before being traded to Washington at the end of July, was also selected to the American League All-Star team.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, All-Stars
Scherzer started the All-Star Game at Marlins Park for the National League on July 11, allowing a single and striking out two, including Home Run Derby champion Aaron Judge, in one inning of work. Harper started in right field and went 1-for-1 with a walk, while making a diving catch on defense to rob American League catcher Salvador Pérez in the second inning. Murphy, the starting second baseman, went 1-for-2, grounding out in his second at-bat with the bases loaded to waste the National League's best chance of the evening to take the lead. Zimmerman went 0-for-2 while hitting into two double plays, one on a groundball and one on a flyout to center field. Kintzler pitched a perfect fifth inning for the American League. Strasburg did not appear in the game, an eventual 2–1 victory for the American League in 10 innings.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, Annual awards, Players Choice Awards
On November 8, two Nationals received Players Choice Awards. Max Scherzer received the award for National League Outstanding Pitcher; he led the National League in strikeouts with 268 in 2017 and posted a 16–6 record, a 2.09 FIP, and a 2.51 ERA.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, Annual awards, Players Choice Awards
The 33-year-old Ryan Zimmerman received the National League Comeback Player Award for overcoming shoulder, wrist, thumb, foot, hamstring, and oblique injuries that had plagued him for several seasons to hit .303, with a .358 on-base percentage, a .573 slugging percentage, 36 home runs, and 108 RBIs; he also was selected as the starting first baseman for the National League team in the 2017 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, his first All-Star Game selection since 2009.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, Annual awards, Silver Slugger
On November 9, Daniel Murphy was named the winner of the 2017 Silver Slugger Award as the best offensive second baseman in the National League. It was his second consecutive Silver Slugger Award and the 13th earned by a Nationals player since the team's arrival in Washington for the 2005 season. Despite battling a knee injury for at least part of the 2017 season, Murphy led National League second basemen in FanGraphs Wins Above Replacement with 4.3, the fourth-best in Major League Baseball in 2017.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, Annual awards, Silver Slugger
He posted a .928 on-base-plus-slugging (OPS) percentage, which was the best by a National League second basemen and more than 130 points higher than the next-best OPS among them. His .322 batting average also was the best among National League second basemen, and was second among all National League players, exceeded only by the .331 average posted by Colorado Rockies outfielder Charlie Blackmon. It was the sixth season in a row, and the eighth time in nine seasons, that at least one National won a Silver Slugger


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, Annual awards, Cy Young Award
On November 15, Max Scherzer was named the winner of the 2017 National League Cy Young Award, receiving 27 out of 30 first-place votes. It was his second consecutive Cy Young Award, his second as a National, and the third of his career. Already the sixth pitcher to win the award in both leagues, having won the American League Cy Young in 2013 with the Detroit Tigers, he became the tenth pitcher to win at least three Cy Youngs.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, Annual awards, Cy Young Award
Pitching at least 200 innings for the fifth straight season despite battling more injuries than he had experienced during his first two years as a National in 2015 and 2016 – between 2010 and 2017, only seven Major League Baseball pitchers compiled more 200-or-more-inning seasons – Scherzer led the National League with 268 strikeouts and posted a National League second-best 2.51 ERA and 12.02 strikeouts per nine innings. He led Major League Baseball with a .178 batting average against.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Awards and honors, Annual awards, Cy Young Award
Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers came in second in the Cy Young Award voting and received the remaining three first-place votes, but Stephen Strasburg came in third. Strasburg put up a 2.52 ERA, third-best in the National League, and also was third-best in the league in batting average against. He led the National League in fielding independent pitching (FIP), and over a five-game stretch in August and September he set a Nationals record by pitching 35 consecutive scoreless innings.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Farm system, New York Mets purchase of the Syracuse Chiefs
While the Nationals were playing in the 2017 National League Division Series, the chief operating officer of the New York Mets, Jeff Wilpon, joined Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and the County Executive of Onondaga County, New York, Joanie Mahoney, at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse, New York, on October 11 to announce that the Mets would purchase the Syracuse Chiefs from the Community Baseball Club of Central New York.


2017 Washington Nationals season, Farm system, New York Mets purchase of the Syracuse Chiefs
Under the deal, the Community Baseball Club of Central New York's ownership of the Chiefs and the Chiefs′ affiliation with the Washington Nationals – which had begun in 2009 – continued through the end of the 2018 season, after which the Mets would take ownership of and operate the Chiefs, with Syracuse – renamed the Syracuse Mets in October 2018 – becoming the Mets′ Class AAA affiliate beginning with the 2019 season.


2017 Washington Redskins season
The 2017 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 86th season in the National Football League and the fourth under head coach Jay Gruden. The Redskins ended the season losing seven of the final 11 games after a 3-2 start, failing to improve on their 8–7–1 record from the previous season, and were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention with a loss to the Chargers. This was likely due to the abundance of injuries at key positions and one of the league's toughest schedules.


2017 Washington Redskins season
In Week 2, the Redskins played the Rams in Los Angeles for the first time in 23 years. It was also their first game in the L.A. Coliseum in 28 years. Washington got their first win in the Coliseum in 43 years.


2017 Washington Redskins season
In addition, this was the last of six seasons that quarterback Kirk Cousins was on the roster, as he would join the Minnesota Vikings in the following offseason.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Offseason, Organizational changes
On January 6, the Redskins fired defensive coordinator Joe Barry, secondary coach Perry Fewell, defensive line coach Robb Akey, and strength and conditioning coach Mike Clark. General manager Scot McCloughan was fired on March 9.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Offseason, Departures, Acquisitions
The first transactions of the year occurred shortly after the conclusion of the 2016 regular season on January 2, 2017, when the Redskins signed defensive lineman A. J. Francis and Joey Mbu, wide receiver Matt Hazel and Kendal Thompson, linebacker Rufus Johnson, offensive lineman Ronald Patrick, defensive back Shak Randolph, tight end Wes Saxton, and offensive tackle Isaiah Williams.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Offseason, Departures, Acquisitions
On January 5, the Redskins signed safety Earl Wolff to a reserve/future contract. On January 6, they signed nose tackle Phil Taylor, and linebackers Khairi Fortt and Pete Robertson to reserve/future contracts.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Philadelphia Eagles
With the loss, the Redskins began the season 0-1, losing their fifth consecutive season opener. They also had their 5-game winning streak against the Eagles snapped.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Los Angeles Rams
Thanks to a 220-yard day from the running game, Cousins's late touchdown pass to Ryan Grant and a late interception by Mason Foster, the Redskins started the season 1-1 for the first time since 2015.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Philadelphia Eagles
With the loss, the Redskins fell 3-3 and were swept by the Philadelphia Eagles for the first time since 2013.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at New Orleans Saints
The Redskins suffered a loss to the Saints after going up 31–16 with 5:58 remaining in the fourth quarter. In under three minutes Drew Brees and the Saints offense rallied back to tie the game 31–31 with 1:05 left in the fourth. In overtime, Saint's kicker Wil Lutz kicked the game-winning field goal from 28 yards away, handing the Redskins their most devastating loss of the season.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New York Giants
The Redskins won on Thanksgiving Day for the first time since 2012 and their third time ever. Kirk Cousins threw a pick six to Janoris Jenkins, who suffered a season-ending injury on the play, to tie the game at 10. The Giants defense hung tough until Cousins and Josh Doctson broke through in the final minutes of the game.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. New York Giants
This was Eli Manning's 210th consecutive and final start before infamously being benched for Geno Smith for one game. He was the second quarterback to ever start 210 consecutive games and has since been passed by Philip Rivers.


2017 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: at Los Angeles Chargers
With the loss, the Redskins were eliminated from playoff contention for the second consecutive season.


2017 Washington Spirit season
The 2017 season is Washington Spirit's fifth season, competing in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States.


2017 Washington Spirit season, Review
In the aftermath of finishing 2016 runners-up, the Spirit saw a series of key departures including captain Ali Krieger (traded to Orlando Pride), Christine Nairn and Diana Matheson (both traded to Seattle Reign), and Crystal Dunn leaving for Chelsea, while retaining her contracting rights. In addition to the departures, key injuries to Joanna Lohman, Francisca Ordega, and goalkeeper Kelsey Wys limited the Spirit's playing options.


2017 Washington Spirit season, Review
Unable to adequately replace these players, the Spirit struggled to compete throughout the 2017 season ultimately finishing last (10th) for the first time since the inaugural season. However, building for the future, Gabarra was able to recruit U.S. national team prospect, Mallory Pugh midseason. Pugh would go on to lead the team in scoring, registering 6 goals in 16 games.


2017 Washington Spirit season, Club, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 Washington Spirit season, Competitions, Preseason
On February 2, the Washington Spirit announced its preseason schedule.


2017 Washington Spirit season, Results by round, Postseason playoff
The Spirit struggled to gain any momentum during the 2017 season and were the first team to be eliminated from playoff contention after a home loss to the Chicago Red Stars on August 26 (Week 19).


2017 Washington State Cougars football team
The 2017 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by sixth-year head coach Mike Leach and played their home games at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington. They competed as members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference. They finished the season 9–4, 6–3 in Pac-12 play to finish in third place in the North Division. They were invited to the Holiday Bowl where they lost to Michigan State.


2017 Washington State Cougars football team, Previous season
In 2016, the Cougars went 8–5, 7–2 in Pac-12 play to finish in second place in the North Division. They were invited to the Holiday Bowl, where they were defeated by Minnesota.


2017 Washington State Cougars football team, Schedule
Washington State announced their 2017 football schedule on January 18, 2017. The Cougars started the season with five straight home games. In Pac-12 conference play, they did not play cross-divisional foes Arizona State and UCLA.


2017 Washington Valor season
The 2017 Washington Valor season was the franchise's inaugural season and the city of Washington's first Arena Football League season since the Washington Commandos left in 1990. The Valor played their home games at the Verizon Center.


2017 Washington Valor season
The Valor won their first-ever season game against the Baltimore Brigade 51–38 on April 7, 2017. Head coach Dean Cokinos, who previously coached the New Orleans VooDoo, led the Valor.


2017 Washington Valor season, Final roster
Rookies in italics updated August 3, 201724 Active, 21 Inactive


2017 Washington Valor season, Schedule, Regular season
The 2017 regular season schedule was released on January 5, 2017.


2017 Washington train derailment
On December 18, 2017, Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derailed near DuPont, Washington, United States. The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) final report said regional transit authority Sound Transit failed to take steps to mitigate a curve at the accident location, and inadequately trained the train's engineer. The train was making the inaugural run of the Point Defiance Bypass, a new passenger rail route south of Tacoma, Washington operated by Amtrak in partnership with state and local authorities in Oregon and Washington, on right-of-way owned and operated by Sound Transit. The bypass was intended to reduce congestion and separate passenger and freight traffic, and was designed for faster speeds and shorter travel times (saving ten minutes from Seattle to Portland) than the previous route used by Cascades.


2017 Washington train derailment
The lead locomotive and all twelve cars derailed at 07:33 local time while approaching a bridge over Interstate 5 (I-5). The trailing locomotive remained on the rails. A number of automobiles on southbound I-5 were crushed and three people on board the train died. The train derailed a short distance from where the new route merges with the previous route.


2017 Washington train derailment
Preliminary data from the data recorder showed that the train was traveling at 78 miles per hour (126 km/h), nearly 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) over the speed limit, when the incident happened.


2017 Washington train derailment, Background
The Point Defiance Bypass was built from 2010 to 2017 as a replacement for the BNSF mainline that runs along the Puget Sound coast between the Nisqually River and Tacoma. The $181 million bypass, using an inland route that follows I-5, was built by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) on right of way owned by Sound Transit, the regional transit authority. The Amtrak Cascades service is a joint effort of WSDOT and Oregon Department of Transportation, with Amtrak as a contracting operator.


2017 Washington train derailment, Background
In the wake of the December 18 derailment, the safety of the bypass was questioned by elected officials. The 2006 Cascades corridor plan recommended that the curve and overpass where the derailment occurred be replaced with a straighter alignment, costing $412 million. The final plans omitted the overpass replacement, with a smaller budget of $180 million granted for the entire project.


2017 Washington train derailment, Derailment
At 07:33 local time (15:33 UTC), the leading locomotive and twelve cars of the southbound Amtrak Cascades number 501 passenger train derailed southwest of DuPont. DuPont is about 40 mi (64 km) south of Seattle and about 5 mi (8.0 km) south of the Joint Base Lewis–McChord (JBLM) main gate. The train derailed while approaching the railroad bridge across southbound I-5 near Mounts Road, which contains a left-hand bend.


2017 Washington train derailment, Derailment
The lead locomotive, then brand new Siemens Charger No. 1402, and six rail cars went down the embankment to the west of the bridge (to the train's right, in the original direction of travel); the locomotive ended up on I-5 and spilled about 350 US gal (1,300 L) of fuel. Two further cars ended up on the bridge span, and three cars went off the railroad bridge abutment on the opposite side, some onto I-5. Only the trailing General Electric Genesis P42DC locomotive, No. 181, remained on the tracks. Seven vehicles, including two trucks, were damaged by the derailed cars of the train.


2017 Washington train derailment, Derailment
The southbound train was operating from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon, on the first revenue service run of the Cascades on the new, faster Point Defiance Bypass route between Lacey and Tacoma. The train was running about 30 minutes behind schedule. Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson said that positive train control was not active on the track, a factor cited in two accidents in Spuyten Duyvil and in Port Richmond, Philadelphia.


2017 Washington train derailment, Casualties
There were five Amtrak employees, a technician from train manufacturer Talgo, and 77 passengers on board the train at the time of the derailment. Three passengers were killed while 57 more passengers and crew members were injured. Eight road vehicles were damaged in the accident. Of the ten people in them, eight were injured. All three deceased were in the seventh coach of the train. Ten of the injured were in serious condition, and thirteen had moderate or minor injuries. In total, more than 80  people were injured.


2017 Washington train derailment, Casualties
Treatment was provided at hospitals including Madigan Army Medical Center at JBLM, Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor, Tacoma General Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, and St. Clare Hospital in Lakewood. Three soldiers from JBLM, including a Madigan Army Medical Center nurse, left their vehicles to give medical assistance to people trapped inside the train cars, and help them escape.


2017 Washington train derailment, Casualties
The three passengers killed in the derailment were train enthusiasts, including two members of rail advocacy group All Aboard Washington.


2017 Washington train derailment, Aftermath
Amtrak temporarily suspended service for south of Seattle for several hours because of the accident, resuming on the former coast route and the old Tacoma station. Southbound automobile traffic was rerouted away from I-5 by WSDOT until the site was cleared of debris and inspected. On December 18, JBLM allowed southbound traffic through from DuPont to State Route 510 near Lacey.


2017 Washington train derailment, Aftermath
WSDOT announced on December 21 that it would not resume Amtrak service on the Point Defiance Bypass until positive train control was implemented in 2018. The accident caused at least $40 million in damage, including the cost of the trainset, damage to vehicles, and damage to the overpass.


2017 Washington train derailment, Aftermath, Cleanup and freeway reopening
Some of the wrecked train cars were removed by trucks on December 19. Two southbound lanes of I-5 were reopened on December 20, with a reduced speed limit, as the cleanup and investigation continued. By the morning of December 21, all lanes of the freeway had been reopened.


2017 Washington train derailment, Aftermath, Fate of rolling stock
Locomotive WDTX 1402 was damaged beyond repair and scrapped, while Locomotive AMTK 181 was undamaged and returned to service. Mt. Adams, the WSDOT-owned Talgo Series VI passenger trainset, was also damaged beyond repair. The NTSB later said that the use of these trainsets should be discontinued "as soon as possible". This led WSDOT and Amtrak to retire the remaining Talgo VI trainsets.


2017 Washington train derailment, Response
Within hours of the derailment, Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency and activated the Washington Military Department's emergency operations center at Camp Murray, adjacent to JBLM, to coordinate the multi-agency response to the incident.


2017 Washington train derailment, Response
A civilian support and reunification center was set up at DuPont City Hall. The Bloodworks Northwest blood bank called for donors after the crash.


2017 Washington train derailment, Response
President Donald Trump said on Twitter a few hours after the accident that the derailment shows that his "soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be passed quickly." He said "several trillion dollars" were spent in the Middle East while the transport infrastructure "crumble[s]". A second tweet said his "thoughts and prayers are with everyone", and he thanked first responders. The Associated Press and The New York Times reports of Trump's tweets said the accident had occurred on newly constructed track that was part of a recently upgraded line. The New York Times added that this project was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, an act signed by President Barack Obama that aimed to address infrastructure shortfalls.


2017 Washington train derailment, Response
The New York Times editorial board said that the derailment is symptomatic of the Federal Government's failure to invest in infrastructure. It said that despite Trump seemingly acknowledging the problem, his administration's $630 million budget cuts to Amtrak, and a proposed plan to shift infrastructure costs down to state and local governments, would only serve to aggravate the problem.


2017 Washington train derailment, Investigation
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened an investigation into the accident and dispatched a 20-member Go Team to the crash site. The NTSB said its investigators would be on-site for seven to ten days. One aspect of the investigation is whether the engineer lost situational awareness.


2017 Washington train derailment, Investigation
The NTSB said the train was traveling at 80 mph (130 km/h) at a point soon before it derailed. The speed limit on the curved track segment where the derailment occurred is 30 mph (48 km/h), but the preceding track segment north of Mounts Road has a limit of 79 mph (127 km/h). An initial review by the NTSB said that the train data recorders had been recovered from both locomotives. The recorder showed that the engineer had commented on the train's excessive speed six seconds before the derailment, and applied the brakes. The lead locomotive was traveling at 78 mph (126 km/h) when recording stopped. The NTSB said their investigation would take 12 to 24 months. A preliminary report into the accident was published on January 4, 2018.


2017 Washington train derailment, Investigation
The NTSB interviewed the train's engineer, Steven J. Brown, who suffered serious injuries, in January. He told investigators that he did not see the advance speed sign or milepost 18, mistakenly thinking he was at milepost 17. The engineer applied the train's brakes after seeing the final speed signpost, immediately north of the curve.


2017 Washington train derailment, Investigation
In its final hearing on May 21, 2019, the NTSB blamed the crash on Sound Transit's failure to mitigate the curve, and for Sound Transit failing to adequately train the engineer to handle the situation on the new line and equipment. The NTSB stated that the crew was attentive and not distracted by conversation or cellular telephones. Although the engineer knew about the 30 mile-per-hour curve ahead, he had missed the single sign telling him to slow down; he also missed the milepost markers.


2017 Washington train derailment, Investigation
As the train approached the curve, the train signaled a warning, but the engineer, being new to the Charger locomotive, had to study the console to decipher the warning. It was an overspeed warning: the train was moving faster than 80 miles per hour (130 km/h), the maximum speed on the line. (It was not warning the engineer about approaching the 30-mile-per-hour (48 km/h) section; the system did not have that capability.) During the 20 seconds that the engineer was deciphering the warning, he was not looking outside and therefore could not see the approaching danger. When he did look up, it was too late.


2017 Washington train derailment, Litigation
In January 2020, the train's engineer filed a personal injury lawsuit against Amtrak, claiming that the company failed to properly train him to operate the train and to operate over the route, and that they failed to complete installation of Positive Train Control over the route. On Mar 24, 2021, a judge in Tacoma ruled that Amtrak is strictly liable for the claim of its engineer.


2017 Washington wildfires
The 2017 Washington wildfires were a series of wildfires that burned over the course of 2017, a year that set weather records for heat and aridity in both Western Washington and Eastern Washington.


2017 Washington wildfires, Timeline of events
Fire season officially began on April 15. Training of state fire crews was conducted in May, as well as training of Washington National Guard in helitack insertion for fire crews.


2017 Washington wildfires, Timeline of events
On the morning of August 1, smoke from BC fires pushed into the Seattle area, rapidly making Mount Rainier invisible on a cloudless day. In early August, heavy smoke from British Columbia over Seattle earned the social media title "Smokezilla". Mid -month, several large fires in the state's Cascades Range were ignited by lightning.


2017 Washington wildfires, Timeline of events
On August 8, the city of Seattle recorded 52 straight days without rain, a new record. The first measurable rainfall at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) was 0.02 inches in mid-August, setting a record 55 day dry streak.


2017 Washington wildfires, Timeline of events
On September 2, the Governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, declared a state of emergency across all Washington counties due to wildfires.


2017 Washington wildfires, Timeline of events
On September 5, ash from the Central Washington fires fell "like snow" on Seattle and as far west as Grays Harbor County which borders the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington meteorology professor Cliff Mass said the situation in Seattle with "a smoke cloud so dense one would think it is low stratus deck" was unprecedented in his 30 years of experience. The Air Quality Index reached "hazardous" in Spokane, the worst of six levels; it had reached hazardous the day before in Newport, Washington, the worst in the country.


2017 Washington wildfires, Timeline of events
On September 5, Cle Elum-Roslyn School District announced the start of the school year would be postponed, and on the 6th, all classes and events in Ellensburg School District were canceled until September 11, due to unhealthy indoor air quality.


2017 Washington wildfires, Timeline of events
The first significant rain wasn't until after mid September. By the end of the summer, the official weather station at Sea-Tac, representing Western Washington's conditions, had recorded the hottest, driest summer since recordkeeping began with just over 0.5 inches (13 mm) of rain. Eastern Washington also had a very dry year with Spokane setting a new record of 80 days without measurable rain. A climate scientist at University of Idaho said that the extremes caused greater fire activity and were due to climate change, but not necessarily linked to human causes.


2017 Washington wildfires, Resources
An infrared thermography-capable RC-26 surveillance aircraft and support crew from Washington Air National Guard were deployed to Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane on August 12 in support of firefighting.


2017 Washington wildfires, Resources
On August 29, the Washington Military Department's Emergency Operation Center at Camp Murray was activated in response to the Jolly Mountain Fire.


2017 Washington wildfires, Resources
On September 5, the U.S. Army said 200 Washington-based soldiers were to be trained and sent to the Umpqua North Complex fires in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election
A special election was held on November 7, 2017, to fill the vacant seat in the Washington State Senate representing the 45th district. The seat was left vacant after the death of incumbent Andy Hill in October 2016. Dino Rossi, a former candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010 and for governor in 2004 and 2008, was appointed to fill the seat until the election. He announced that he would not run for the seat.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election
The election was then contested between Manka Dhingra of the Democratic Party and Jinyoung Lee Englund of the Republican Party, who advanced as the top two finishers in the August primary. Dhingra won the election by more than ten percent, giving the Democratic caucus a 25–24 majority for the 2018 session.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election
Hill, a Republican, held the district from 2011 to 2016, helping give the Republican Party a one-seat majority coalition in the state senate with a Democrat. The election attracted interest from national Democratic and Republican donors, contributing more than $9 million in the state's costliest ever state legislative race.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Background
The 45th legislative district represents the northeastern suburbs of Seattle in King County. It including the cities of Duvall and Woodinville and parts of Kirkland, Redmond, and Sammamish. The district's residents have a median household income of $110,881, double the state median, and are more likely to hold bachelor's degrees; the region includes employees of the area's high tech industry, as well as traditional industries like horse farms and wineries. The 45th district's population is 74 percent white, followed by 15 percent Asian, and 6 percent Hispanic. In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton carried the district with 64.8 percent of votes.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Background
The Eastside region was historically a Republican stronghold, but Democratic candidates began winning seats in the early 2000s. The 45th district elected former Microsoft executive Eric Oemig to the state senate in 2006, during a close election with the district's Republican representative Toby Nixon. Oemig lost re-election in 2010 to Republican Andy Hill, also a former Microsoft executive, during a campaign partially funded by the Koch-directed national Americans for Prosperity organization.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Background
Hill was re-elected in 2014 during a high-profile contest against Amazon.com product manager Matt Isenhower that attracted funding from out of state because of its potential to flip the state senate. Hill remained popular among constituents of the district and was the chief budget writer for the Republican Party during his second term; the Republican Party had also considered him as a potential gubernatorial candidate. He died of lung cancer on October 31, 2016. Two-time losing gubernatorial and also losing U.S. Senate candidate Dino Rossi was appointed by the Republican Party and Metropolitan King County Council to fill the vacant seat. Rossi declined to run for election to the seat, leaving the 2017 special election open for candidates of both major parties.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Background
Prior to the election, majority control of the 49-member state senate rested with the 25 members of the Majority Coalition Caucus, composed of 24 Republicans and one self-identified Democrat. The Governor's office and a narrow majority in the state House of Representatives were both held by the Democrats. The change of party for the 45th district, the most competitive of several special elections for the state senate in 2017, would complete a Democrat trifecta for the 2018 legislative session. The Democrats last held a trifecta in the Washington state government from 2005 to 2012.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Candidates
The district's Democratic representatives, Larry Springer and Roger Goodman, both declined to run for the seat. Deputy King County prosecutor Manka Dhingra emerged as an early Democratic front-runner, announcing her candidacy in February and earning the 45th District Democrats's endorsement in April. Dhingra, a Sikh, immigrated to the United States from India with her family at the age of 13 and was raised in California. She has been part of the King County Prosecutor's Office since 2000, supervising the regional mental health and veteran court systems. Dhingra was involved in various non-profit organizations centered around advocacy for mental health and domestic violence survivors; she described herself as non-partisan until the 2016 presidential election. Ian Stratton, a Democratic activist from Sammamish, initially filed to run but dropped out before the primary election.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Candidates
Jinyoung Lee Englund announced her campaign for the Republican nominating in April, after being recruited by Dino Rossi. Englund was born in South Korea and raised in University Place, attending the University of Washington. She worked for Christian missionary organization Iris Global in Mozambique before returning to Washington as an aide to Republican congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Englund also worked for Dino Rossi's unsuccessful Senate campaign in 2010, for Elaine Chao at the Heritage Foundation, and as an advocate for Bitcoin. A second Republican candidate, Ken Smith, filed to run but withdrew in May.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Candidates
Parker Harris, a teacher and engineer from Woodinville, filed to run as an independent candidate in May.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Campaign, Endorsements
Dhingra attracted endorsements from local and prominent national Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, Governor Jay Inslee, and King County Executive Dow Constantine.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Campaign, Fundraising
The election generated national interest due to its potential to determine control of the state government. During the primary campaign, a total $3 million in campaign contributions were reported for the Democratic and Republican candidates. By the end of the general campaign in November, a total of $9 million had been spent in the race, making it the costliest ever for a Washington state legislative election. A total of $4.2 million was raised by Democrats for Dhingra, and $4.8 million by Republicans for Englund. Negative campaign ads cost $1.8 million for Democratic supporters and $2.5 million for Republican supporters.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Campaign, Advertising
The national prominence and fundraising for the election brought an unusually large number of attack ads and amount of advertising to the Eastside. Several ads from both campaigns were criticized for misleading the public on the candidate's past histories and political positions. The Republican campaign, without authorization from Englund, produced a series of spoof advertisements that painted Dhingra supporters as stereotypical "Seattle liberals".


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Campaign, Primary election results
The primary election garnered $3 million in total fundraising. Dhingra won the primary election, with 51 percent of the vote, followed by Englund with 41 percent and Harris with 7 percent. Dhingra and Englund advanced to the general election.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Campaign, General election results
In the second round, with over $9 million spent on the election through campaign contributions and political action committee expenditures, with a small number of votes yet to be counted, Manka Dhingra led Republican Jinyoung Englund by over a 10% margin. Anticipating the Dhingra victory, Democrat Senate Democratic Minority Leader Sharon Nelson had described a comprehensive agenda for the 60-day legislative session beginning in January that included proposed voting rights reform and campaign-finance disclosure revision, as well as women's reproductive health, clean energy and firearms safety measures.


2017 Washington's 45th state senate district special election, Aftermath
Dhingra's election gave the Democratic Party a one-seat majority in the state senate, completing one-party rule of the state legislative and executive branches. Washington joined the states of California and Oregon to complete a "blue wall" along the West Coast, all sharing a Democrat government trifecta. Dhingra was named as the deputy majority leader in the Senate and assigned as the chair of the Behavioral Health Subcommittee. She retained the 45th district seat by being re-elected in 2018.


2017 Waterford Senior Football Championship
The 2017 Waterford Senior Football Championship was the 130th edition of the Waterford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded clubs in County Waterford, Ireland.


2017 Waterford Senior Football Championship
The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winners representing Waterford in the Munster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a seeded group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2017 Waterford Senior Football Championship
The Nire/Fourmilewater were the defending champions after they defeated Abbeyside/Ballinacourty in the 2016 final.


2017 Waterford Senior Football Championship
Ballinameela were relegated to the 2018 I.F.C. after just two seasons as a senior club.


2017 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2016 championship season.


2017 Waterford Senior Football Championship, Rounds 1 to 4, Round 1
All 12 teams enter the championship at this stage. The 6 winners enter the draw for Round 2A while the 6 losers enter Round 2B.


2017 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 2017 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship is the 117th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1887.


2017 Web.com Tour
The 2017 Web.com Tour was the 28th season of the top developmental tour for the PGA Tour in men's golf, and the sixth under the current sponsored name of Web.com Tour. It ran from January 8 to October 2. The season consisted of 26 official money tournaments, six of them played outside of the United States.


2017 Web.com Tour, Schedule
The table below shows the Web.com Tour's 2017 schedule, which includes three new tournaments. The numbers in parentheses after winners' names show the player's total number of wins on the Web.com Tour including that event. No one accumulates many wins on the Web.com Tour because success at this level soon leads to promotion to the PGA Tour. Any player who wins three Web.com Tour events in a season automatically earns their PGA Tour card immediately.


2017 Web.com Tour, Money leaders
The table shows the final top 10 money winners for the 2017 Web.com Tour season. For the list of the 50 golfers given PGA Tour memberships for the 2017–18 season, see 2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates.


2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
This is a list of golfers who graduated from the Web.com Tour and Web.com Tour Finals in 2017. The top 25 players on the Web.com Tour's regular season money list in 2017 earned PGA Tour cards for 2018. The Finals determined the other 25 players to earn their PGA Tour cards and the priority order of all 50.


2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
As in previous seasons, the Finals featured the top 75 players on the Web.com Tour regular season money list, players ranked 126–200 on the PGA Tour's regular-season FedEx Cup points list (except players exempt through other means), non-members of the PGA Tour with enough regular-season FedExCup points to place 126–200, and special medical exemptions.


2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
To determine the initial 2018 PGA Tour priority rank, the top 25 Web.com Tour regular season players were alternated with the top 25 Web.com Tour Finals players. This priority order will then be reshuffled several times during the 2018 season.


2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
Chesson Hadley was fully exempt for the 2017–18 PGA Tour season after leading both the full-season money list and the Finals money list.


2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates, 2017 Web.com Tour Finals
*PGA Tour rookie in 2018†First-time PGA Tour member in 2018, but ineligible for rookie status due to having played eight or more PGA Tour events in a previous season


2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates, Results on 2017–18 PGA Tour
Roberto Díaz, Stephan Jäger, Matt Jones, Nicholas Lindheim, Denny McCarthy, Adam Schenk, Ben Silverman, Shawn Stefani, and Cameron Tringale regained their cards through the 2018 Web.com Tour Finals.


2017 Webby Awards
The 21st annual Webby Awards were held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 15, 2017, which was hosted by comedian and actor Joel McHale. The Webby Awards have been dubbed the "internet's highest honor" and, in 2017, received nearly 13,000 entries from 70 countries.


2017 Weber State Wildcats football team
The 2017 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Wildcats were led by fourth-year head coach Jay Hill and played their games at Stewart Stadium as members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 11–3, 7–1 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for the Big Sky championship with Southern Utah.


2017 Weber State Wildcats football team
Due to their head-to-head loss to Southern Utah in the regular season, they did not receive the Big Sky's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, but did receive an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, their second straight trip to the playoffs. In the first round, they defeated Western Illinois. In the second round, they avenged their regular season loss to Southern Utah. In the quarterfinals, they lost to eventual national runner-up, James Madison.


2017 Weber State Wildcats football team, Previous season
The Wildcats finished the 2016 season 7–5, 6–2 in Big Sky play to finish in third place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs, their first trip to the playoffs since 2009, where they lost to Chattanooga in the first round.


2017 Weber State Wildcats football team, Schedule
Despite also being a member of the Big Sky Conference, the game with Sacramento State on September 16 was considered a non-conference game.


2017 Weber State Wildcats volleyball team
The 2017 Weber State Wildcats volleyball team will  represent Weber State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I women's volleyball season. The Wildcats are led by third year head coach Jeremiah Larsen and play their home games at Swenson Gym. The Wildcats are members of the Big Sky.


2017 Weber State Wildcats volleyball team
Weber State comes off a season where they finished 5–11 in conference, 14–13 overall, good for fifth place in the South Division and ninth overall in the conference. Coming into 2017 the Wildcats were picked to finish fifth in the South, eighth overall, in the pre-season Big Sky poll.


2017 Weber State Wildcats volleyball team, Season highlights
Season highlights will be filled in as the season progresses.


2017 Weber State Wildcats volleyball team, Announcers for televised games
All home games will be on the Pluto TV Ch. 235. Select road games will also be televised or streamed.


2017 Wellington Sevens
The 2017 Wellington Sevens was the eighteenth edition of the Wellington Sevens tournament, and the third tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament was played on 28–29 January 2017 at Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand.


2017 Wellington Sevens, Format
Sixteen teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays everyone in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup quarterfinals. The bottom two teams from each group go to the Challenge Trophy quarterfinals.


2017 Wellington Sevens, Teams
The fifteen core teams were joined by Papua New Guinea, who qualified via the 2016 Oceania Sevens, for this tournament.


2017 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election
The Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election took place during the autumn of 2017 and was won by Jane Dodds, who defeated Ceredigion Councillor Elizabeth Evans in a closely fought contest.


2017 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election
Following the 2017 general election the party's leader, and only MP, Mark Williams lost his Ceredigion seat by 104 votes. Because of this he stood down as leader later that day.


2017 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election
His predecessor as leader, Kirsty Williams, took over as interim leader, but announced she wouldn't be a candidate in the forthcoming leadership election.


2017 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election
Jane Dodds was declared the winner with 56.5% of the vote on 3 November 2017.


2017 Welsh Liberal Democrats leadership election, Candidates
Richmond upon Thames Councillor for North Richmond 2006 to 2010.


2017 Welsh Open (snooker)
The 2017 Coral Welsh Open was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 13 to 19 February 2017 at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. It was the fourteenth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.


2017 Welsh Open (snooker)
The 2017 Welsh Open was being held as part of a new Home Nations Series, introduced in the 2016/2017 season with the new English Open, Northern Ireland Open and Scottish Open tournaments. The tournament's trophy was renamed to the Ray Reardon Trophy in honour of six-time world champion Ray Reardon.


2017 Welsh Open (snooker)
The defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan lost 3–4 against Mark Davis in the last 64.


2017 Welsh Open (snooker)
Stuart Bingham won his first Welsh Open title and fourth ranking title overall, beating Judd Trump 9–8 in the final.


2017 Welsh Open (snooker), Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000.


2017 Welsh local elections
The 2017 Welsh local elections were held on 4 May 2017 to elect members of all 22 local authorities in Wales. This included the Isle of Anglesey, which was previously up for election in 2013 due to having its elections delayed for a year. Community council elections also took place on the same day. These local elections were held as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. Apart from Anglesey, the last elections were held in 2012. Normally these elections take place every four years, but the 2017 elections were postponed for a year in order to avoid clashing with the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, which itself had been postponed by a year to avoid clashing with the 2015 general election.


2017 Welsh local elections
The Labour Party incurred a net loss of 112 council seats, losing control control of the Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend councils. Labour did, however, retain control of Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and five other councils. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru saw a net gain of 38 seats and retained control of Gwynedd Council, while also falling just short of controlling Carmarthenshire County Council. The Conservatives saw a net gain of 79 seats, and gained control of one council, Monmouthshire. The Conservatives also became the largest party in Vale of Glamorgan and Denbighshire. In ten of the 22 councils, no party had overall control of the council.


2017 Welsh local elections, Background
In the last local elections in Wales in 2012 (including a delayed election for the Isle of Anglesey County Council in 2013), 1,265 councillors were elected across Wales. The Labour Party won 580, independents won 307, Plaid Cymru won 170, the Conservatives won 105 and the Liberal Democrats won 73. Other parties, including the UK Independence Party, won 30 seats. Ahead of the 2017 elections, Labour were defending 536 seats and control of ten of the twenty-two Welsh local authorities. Plaid Cymru was defending 177 seats, and the Conservatives was defending 103 seats. The Liberal Democrats were defending 75 seats, having "made a net gain of three council seats as a result of by-elections and defections" since 2012. The Wales Green Party was defending a single seat.


2017 Welsh local elections, Background
Labour had suffered defections among its Welsh councilors prior to the 2017 elections. In September 2014, ten Labour councillors on the Wrexham County Borough Council left the Labour Party and quit the Labour council group. In August 2016, the councilor for Splott, Cardiff left Labour. In November 2016, Labour lost two of its Cardiff councillors in two days, with the Llandaff North councillor resigning from the council because of a "culture of bullying" and the Adamsdown councillor leaving the Labour group to sit as an independent after he was not re-selected to run in 2017. In 2015, control of Carmarthenshire Council was lost to a Plaid Cymru led coalition, whilst in 2016 the party also lost control of Maesteg Town Council for the first time since it was created in 1974 after the de-selection of several Bridgend Labour county councillors.


2017 Welsh local elections, Background
A total of 1,159 seats were up for election in the 2017 Welsh local elections. Labour fielded 910 candidates, the Conservatives 621 candidates, Plaid Cymru 549 candidates, the Liberal Democrats 280 candidates, UKIP 80 candidates, and the Greens 78 candidates. Additionally, more than 870 people ran as independent or candidates for other parties. 10.4% of wards were uncontested with almost a hundred candidates running unopposed. In one ward, Yscir in Powys, no candidate filed to run. The election for that ward was deferred until the 21 June 2017, when it was won by the Conservative Party. Elections in the wards in Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tydfil and Llandyfriog, Ceredigion were postponed following the deaths of local candidates.


2017 Welsh local elections, Eligibility to vote
All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who are aged 18 or over on polling day are entitled to vote in the local elections. A person who has two homes (such as a university student who has a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) can register to vote at both addresses as long as they are not in the same electoral area, and can vote in the local elections for the two different local councils.


2017 Welsh local elections, Eligibility to vote
Individuals must be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day (13 April 2017). Anyone who qualifies as an anonymous elector has until midnight on 25 April 2017 to register.


2017 Welsh local elections, Eligibility to vote
The 2017 Welsh local elections are likely to be the last local elections to be held before widespread changes by the Welsh Government under the Local Government & Elections (Wales) Bill. The Bill extends voting rights to 16 & 17 year olds and foreign citizens living in Wales, and makes it easier to register voters for future local elections. Around 1,900 prisoners would also be eligible to vote for the first time.


2017 Welsh local elections, Wales-wide results
For comparative purposes, the table above shows changes since 2012 including Anglesey's council, which was last elected in 2013.


2017 Welsh local elections, Wales-wide results
The Labour Party had a net loss of 112 council seats, and also lost control of the Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend councils. Labour did, however, retain control of Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and five other councils. The Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru had a net gain of 38 seats and won control of the Gwynedd Council (the council had shifted to Plaid control in June 2012, and is counted in the table above as a 'gain'); it also fell just short of controlling the Carmarthenshire County Council.


2017 Welsh local elections, Wales-wide results
The Conservatives had a net gain of 79 seats, and won control of one council, Monmouthshire; the Conservatives also became the largest party in Vale of Glamorgan and Denbighshire. The Wales Green Party won their first county council seat in Powys. In ten of the 22 councils, no party had overall control of the council.


2017 Welsh local elections, Principal councils
† In 2014, the only Welsh Liberal Democrat cabinet member defected to Welsh Labour, therefore the Liberal Democrats are no longer part of the coalition. In 2015, several Independent councillors created their own group within the council called Conwy First. This group later on went to support the council instead of the remaining five independent councillors, meaning the current coalition is made up of Plaid Cymru, Welsh Labour and Conwy First.


2017 Welsh local elections, Principal councils
‡ The Welsh Liberal Democrats have since lost its only seat on the Council, therefore leaving the coalition.


2017 Welsh local elections, Principal councils
†† Plaid Cymru at the original election won exactly half the seats available, they took control of the council by winning the final seat in a delayed election in June 2012.


2017 Welsh local elections, Community & town councils
Elections were held for around 8,000 seats on over 730 community and town councils across Wales.


2017 Welsh local elections, Community & town councils
The 2017 Local Government Elections data revealed that over 64% of community council seats in Wales were elected uncontested. Only two Principal Council areas had over 50% contested seats. Bridgend had the lowest amount of uncontested seats, with 28%. In comparison, Cardiff had the highest amount of uncontested seats with 74%.


2017 Welsh local elections, Community & town councils
Over half (55 per cent) of community councillors were aged 60 or above. 1.2 per cent of community councillors were non-white and around 65 per cent of candidates were male. 15 per cent considered themselves to have a disability. Ahead of the 2022 elections, the Welsh Government established an 'Independent Review Panel on Community and Town Councils' which in October 2018 made a series of recommendations to improve future candidate diversity and address the large number of uncontested seats.


2017 Wesson
2017 Wesson, provisional designation A903 SC, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 20 September 1903, by German astronomer Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany. It was later named after Mary Joan Wesson Bardwell, wife of Conrad Bardwell, an associate director of the Minor Planet Center.


2017 Wesson, Orbit and classification
Wesson orbits the Sun in the inner main belt at a distance of 1.8–2.7 AU, orbiting once every 3 years and 5 months (1,235 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.19 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic.


2017 Wesson, Physical characteristics
Wesson has been characterized as a stony S-type asteroid. It has a rotation period of 3.418 hours. The numerous lightcurves have a brightness variation of 0.30 to 0.60 magnitude (U=2/3-). According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid measures 7.2 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.200. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link agrees with the results obtained by WISE.


2017 Wesson, Naming
The asteroid was named after Mary Joan Wesson Bardwell, wife of Conrad M. Bardwell (1926–2010), after whom the minor planet 1615 Bardwell is named. He also established the identifications for this minor planet. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1978 (M.P.C. 4358).


2017 West Alabama Tigers football team
The 2017 West Alabama Tigers football team represented the University of West Alabama in the 2017 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Brett Gilliland. The Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.


2017 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule
West Alabama announced its 2017 football schedule on January 13, 2017. The schedule consists of both five home and six away games in the regular season. The Tigers hosted GSC foes Mississippi College, Shorter, West Florida, and West Georgia and traveled to Delta State, Florida Tech, North Alabama, and Valdosta State


2017 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule
The Tigers only hosted one of the three non-conference games against North Greenville which is independent from a conference and traveled to two games against Lenoir-Rhyne from the South Atlantic Conference and Samford from the Southern Conference.


2017 West Asian Women's Handball Championship
The 2017 West Asian Women's Handball Championship was the second edition of the championship held under the aegis of the Asian Handball Federation. The championship was hosted by the Jordan Handball Federation at Princess Sumaya Hall, Amman (Jordan) from 15 to 21 February 2018.


2017 West Asian Women's Handball Championship
The championship was previously awarded to Bahrain and scheduled to take place in December 2017 but due to unavoidable circumstances the championship was postponed and then awarded to the Jordan.


2017 West Asian Women's Handball Championship, Referees
The following four referee pairs were selected for the championship.


2017 West Bengal floods
Following heavy rain in July and August 2017, the Indian state of West Bengal was affected by severe flooding. The floods were reported to have caused 50 deaths since 1 August and 8 deaths in the neighbouring state of Jharkhand.


2017 West Bengal floods
Soon after these floods, North Bengal also witnessed floods that wreaked havoc over the seven districts and killed 3 people.


2017 West Bengal floods, Cause and extent of the disaster, Gangetic West Bengal
Heavy rain in last week of July & August resulted in flood in the state. The Land Depression 01 in its precursor low & poor maintenance of dams caused dangerous floods in West Bengal.


2017 West Bengal floods, Cause and extent of the disaster, Gangetic West Bengal
State irrigation minister said that in some districts of south Bengal, there had been around 400 mm rainfall during the last three days. The rivers Silabati in West Midnapore, Dwarkeswar in Bankura, Dwaraka and Kuye in Birbhum were flowing above the danger level. Some villages at Suri block II got flooded due to incessant rain. Some parts of the Hooghly and West Midnapore, including Ghatal, Khirpai, Chandrakona went under water since Saturday night.


2017 West Bengal floods, Cause and extent of the disaster, Gangetic West Bengal
Bankura recorded the state's highest rainfall at 274 mm during the same period, while Digha recorded 104 mm, Halisahar recorded 189 mm and Burdwan received 72.6 mm of rains. The water discharge from DVC dams was in excess of that in 1978 which saw an unprecedented flood in the state. So far 2.78 lakh (278 thousand) cusecs of water had been discharged by DVC as of 1 August. The situation in Bengal got worse on Thursday after Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) released more water from its dams and sounded a red alert in the lower catchment areas of the Damodar river.


2017 West Bengal floods, Cause and extent of the disaster, Gangetic West Bengal
An additional 249,450 cusecs of water was released from Durgapur barrage on Thursday morning. As a result, more areas in east Burdwan, Hooghly and Howrah were hit by flood. The flood affected districts had received record rainfall from 20 to 25 July. Compared to the normal rainfall received in July, Bankura received 754 per cent, Burdwan 334 per cent, Birbhum 313 per cent, East Midnapore 500 per cent, West Midnapore 424 per cent, Howrah 427 per cent, Hooghly 359 per cent, Kolkata 367 per cent, Murshidabad 174 per cent, and Purulia 721 per cent more rainfall. The cumulative rainfall received in Birbhum from 20 to 26 July was over 600 mm.


2017 West Bengal floods, Cause and extent of the disaster, Gangetic West Bengal
From the weather system, the capital city of Kolkata received 142 mm of rain in 48 hours. July 2017 was the second wettest in Kolkata since 2008 with rain count 72% above the normal mark – the city received 621.5 mm rain. Only once – in 2015 – in the last decade has Kolkata received more rain in July from Cyclone Komen.


2017 West Bengal floods, Cause and extent of the disaster, North Bengal
These floods in Gangetic West Bengal were soon followed by floods in North Bengal that affected 7 districts. These floods were caused by the shifting of the monsoon trough in the sub-Himalayan region.


2017 West Bengal floods, Effects of flood, Gangetic West Bengal
Dhaniakhali of Hooghly district and Ghatal in West Midnapore district were the two worst affected areas. 1,79,321 hectares out of 10,82,285 hectares of paddy seedbeds were damaged. At least 50 people died while nearly 20 lakh (2 million) were affected in over 160 villages, which were inundated due to heavy rains. 2,301 people were evacuated from their houses and 2,02,957 hectare of agricultural land was submerged. Around 7,868 houses were entirely destroyed while 44,361 were partially damaged in West Bengal. The state lost around Rs.553 crores(US$86.6 million) due to the storm. An additional eleven people were reported to be killed in Jharkhand due to heavy rains.


2017 West Bengal floods, Effects of flood, Gangetic West Bengal
Around 50 people have so far lost their lives, and according to government figures, about 11,974 hectares of land under paddy cultivation, and 23,096 hectare under vegetable cultivation, has been inundated. State government officials said the Subarnarekha river burst its banks after water was released from the Galudi dam in Jharkhand. Water was also released from Tilpara barrage in Birbhum. As a result, the Mayurakshi river inundated hundreds of acres of farmland. Water was reported to be rising fast in Chandrabhaga, Kopai and Bakreswar rivers in Birbhum district.


2017 West Bengal floods, Effects of flood, Gangetic West Bengal
In Hooghly district, embankments along the Darakeswar river were washed away and flood water gushed towards Arambagh town. In the 14 flood-hit districts in West Bengal, 27 lakh (2.7 million) people had been affected by flood. The government had set up 311 relief camps where over 47,000 people have taken shelter, adding it has also set up 131 medical camps. Over 16,000 animals were sheltered in relief camps for animals and veterinary doctors were looking after them. The government had also sent medicines, water pouches and other items to all the districts.


2017 West Bengal floods, Effects of flood, North Bengal
The floods claimed seven lives so far in the region, while about one lakh (100 thousand) people were affected in the five districts—60,000 of them in Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri alone —and many of them had taken shelter in the relief camps. Communication between Falakata and Madarihat in Jalpaiguri district remained cut off due to large-scale inundation and a majority of the residents of the two areas had taken shelter in the relief camps. Malda District has been flooded by overflow of river Fulhaar, Behula, Ganga and Mahananda. More than 2 lakhs (200 thousand) people have been affected by the flood conditions. 4 blocks of Malda district is under water including the English bazaar.


2017 West Bengal floods, Relief and rescue
More than 27,00,000 people in 106 blocks of 14 districts of West Bengal were affected by the flood. Around 311 relief camps were opened for them by the state government. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited flood-hit areas in Amta and Udaynarayanpur in Howrah. She accused the DVC of releasing water indiscriminately. The Mamata Banerjee government sought help from the armed forces for the first time when eight districts in south Bengal were hit by flood. The air force pressed into service a helicopter to rescue 39 people who were trapped inside a two-storey house at Pratappur village in the Ghatal sub-division of West Midnapore district.


2017 West Bengal floods, Relief and rescue
NDRF on 6 August 2017 team conducted rescue and relief operation at Ghatal, West Medenipur, WB and evacuated 03 persons and distributed relief material water pouches- 2200Nos, Dry Ration- 16 bags, Milk powder 6 kg, and Gur60 kg. So far teams have rescued 253 persons, evacuated 1029 persons and retrieved 05 dead bodies and distributed food 1500 Pkts, Water pouches/ bottles- 25564 Nos, Dry Ration ( Rice, Dal, Suger, Churaetc – 236 Bags, Baby food - 244 Ctns, Milk- 1056 Pkts, Gur -2205 kg, Tarpoline- 58 Nos, Vegetable- 540 kg and Medicines.


2017 West Chester Golden Rams football team
The 2017 West Chester Golden Rams football team represented West Chester University in Division II football as a member of the PSAC East division.


2017 West Chester Golden Rams football team, Background, Previous season
In 2016 the Golden Rams finished with an 8–3 including an impressive 6–1 conference record, including a 6-game end of the year winning streak while averaging 33 points per games and holding opponents to under 14 point in each of their last six games.


2017 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2017 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 25 through May 27, 2017 at Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, California. BYU won the four team, double-elimination tournament and earned the league's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2017 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage. The teams then played a double elimination tournament.


2017 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player
Bronson Larsen, a senior catcher at BYU, was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player.


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was a postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference held March 3–7, 2017 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. Regular-season champion Gonzaga also won the WCC tournament, and with it the conference's automatic bid into the 2017 NCAA Tournament with a 74-56 win over Saint Mary's in the finals.


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The WCC's eight-year tournament contract with Orleans Arena expired after the 2016 WCC Tournament, with the WCC looking to potentially moving the tournament to a different Las Vegas-area venue (the MGM Grand Garden Arena or the T-Mobile Arena), keep it at the Orleans Arena, or move it elsewhere. In May 2016, the WCC announced that it reached an agreement on a new three-year contract with the Orleans Arena, which will run through the 2019 WCC year-end tournament.


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 10 WCC teams were eligible for the tournament. The top six teams received a first round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, First round, No. 7 San Diego vs. No. 10 Portland
Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler Series History: San Diego leads 52–29


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Quarterfinals, No. 3 BYU vs. No. 6 Loyola Marymount
Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler Series History: BYU leads 13–3


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Quarterfinals, No. 4 Santa Clara vs. No. 5 San Francisco
Broadcasters: Dave McCann, Blaine Fowler Series History: Santa Clara leads 79–76


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Quarterfinals, No. 2 Saint Mary's vs. No. 10 Portland
Broadcasters: Roxy Bernstein, Jon Barry Series History: Saint Mary's leads 65–29


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Semifinals, No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 4 Santa Clara
Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale, Jeff GoodmanSeries History: Gonzaga leads 59–30


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Semifinals, No. 2 Saint Mary's vs. No. 3 BYU
Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Jon Barry, Jeff GoodmanSeries History: BYU leads 12–11


2017 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Championship, No. 1 Gonzaga vs. No. 2 Saint Mary's
Broadcasters: Dave O'Brien, Dick Vitale, Jeff GoodmanSeries History: Gonzaga leads 67–29


2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held from March 2–7, 2017 at Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas Valley community of Paradise, Nevada. Seeds were determined solely on conference record. Regular-season champion Gonzaga added the tournament crown to its résumé, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament.


2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Game Summaries, First round, #8 Pacific vs. #9 Pepperdine
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Kristen Kozlowski Series History: Pacific leads series 7–3


2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Game Summaries, First round, #7 San Diego vs. #10 Portland
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Kristen Kozlowski Series History: Series –


2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Game Summaries, Quarterfinals, #3 St. Mary's vs. #6 Santa Clara
Broadcasters: Dave McCann & Blaine Fowler Series History: Series –


2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Game Summaries, Quarterfinals, #2 BYU vs. #7 San Diego
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Kristen Kozlowski Series History: Series –


2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Game Summaries, Semifinals, #1 Gonzaga vs. #4 San Francisco
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Kristen Kozlowski Series History: Series –


2017 West Dunbartonshire Council election
The 2017 West Dunbartonshire Council election was held on Thursday 4 May 2017, on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the six wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 22 Councillors being elected. Each ward will elect either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.


2017 West Dunbartonshire Council election
Following the 2012 election a Labour majority administration was formed. After this election, the SNP group and Councillor Denis Agnew formed a minority coalition administration, led by the SNP leader, Jonathan McColl. As part of the deal, the title of bailie was revived, and Councillor Agnew was appointed as West Dunbartonshire's first. The 2017 election marked the first time that Conservatives were elected to the Council in its history.


2017 West Dunbartonshire Council election, 2017 Results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2012. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.


2017 West Florida Argonauts football team
The 2017 West Florida Argonauts football team represented the University of West Florida in the 2017 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by second-year head coach Pete Shinnick. The Argonauts played their home games at Blue Wahoos Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.


2017 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
West Florida announced its 2017 football schedule on February 1, 2017. The schedule consists of 6 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Argonauts will host GSC foes Delta State, Mississippi College, North Alabama, and Valdosta State, and will travel to Shorter, West Alabama, West Florida, and West Georgia.


2017 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
The Argonauts will host two of the three non-conference game against Chowan of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and Midwestern State of the Lone Star Conference and will travel to Missouri S&T of the Great Lakes Valley Conference.


2017 West Georgia Wolves football team
The 2017 West Georgia Wolves football team represented the University of West Georgia in the 2017 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by first-year head coach David Dean. The Wolves played their home games at University Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.


2017 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule
West Georgia announced its 2017 football schedule on February 14, 2017. The schedule consists of 7 home and 4 away games in the regular season. The Wolves will host GSC foes North Alabama, Shorter, Valdosta State, and West Florida, and will travel to Delta State, Florida Tech, Mississippi College, and West Alabama.


2017 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule
The Wolves will host all three non-conference game against Fort Valley State, Albany State and Miles, which all three are from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.


2017 West Iraq campaign
The 2017 Western Iraq campaign was the final major military operation of the War in Iraq, in the western province of Anbar, and on the border with Syria, with the goal of completely expelling ISIL forces from their last strongholds in Iraq.


2017 West Iraq campaign
The offensive followed the Hawija offensive by the Iraqi Government, and was also concurrent with several major offensives in Syria: the Syrian Democratic Forces' Deir ez-Zor offensive, and the Syrian Government's Battle of Deir ez-Zor and Eastern Syria campaign on the opposite side of the Al-Qa'im border crossing.


2017 West Iraq campaign, Background
Al-Qa'im was known as a hotbed of jihadist insurgency, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with coalition forces carrying out repeated operations against Al-Qaeda jihadists. The strategic and porous border started becoming a route for foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria, who was accused by Iraqi Government of ignoring it.


2017 West Iraq campaign, Background
The towns of western Anbar were captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014. Before the 2017 offensive, Iraqi forces had dislodged the group from key cities of Anbar including Ramadi and Fallujah but the areas near border with Syria including Anah, Rawa, Al-Qaim left and the vast rural areas across the province remained under militant control. An Iraqi operation was launched towards west Anbar in January 2017, but was suspended after recapture of towns of Sagra and Zawiya because of preparations for retaking the western bank of Mosul.