The Washington Nationals are back home for a long homestand, and the team has to snap this losing streak. They will call on Jake Irvin to be their stopper. By the way, today is an AppleTV+ game as the only televised option.
What is kind of incredible for the entire month of August is that the Nats charter jet will only be used for the weekend of August 23rd, and the rest of the month, the team has two bus trip series within 140 miles of Nationals Park. The rest of the games are home games. There are 18 home games, and just nine road games, of which the Nats can commute to-and-from for two of those nine games in Baltimore. The split so far has been only 50 home games and 59 road games.
We should find out shortly if Keibert Ruiz goes on the 10-day IL with a testicular contusion. He had that same injury in 2022 and lost significant time.
Nats’ manager Dave Martinez‘s bullpen got a nice day-off yesterday. Eduardo Salazar could use another rest day, and Derek Law too. Everyone else should be ready when called — if needed.
The Nationals are slight underdogs today, at +100 to win on the moneyline. That means if you bet $100 you would win $100. Bet $10.00 and you win $10.00.
This is what the Nats schedule looks like going forward:
- Friday: Jake Irvin vs. Brewers
- Saturday: DJ Herz vs. Brewers
- Sunday: Mitchell Parker vs. Brewers
- Monday: Patrick Corbin vs. Giants
- Tuesday: MacKenzie Gore vs. Giants
- Wednesday: Irvin vs. Giants
- Thursday: Herz vs. Giants
- Friday: Parker vs. Angels
- Saturday: Corbin vs. Angels
- Sunday: Gore vs. Angels
- Monday: Day-off (August 12)
Your top Washington Nationals on the FanGraphs’ WAR leaderboard adjusted a day after large adjustments yesterday and CJ Abrams is back atop of the position WAR rankings at +2.0 with Jacob Young at +1.9. In total, 22 Nats’ players are in positive WAR and another seven are at a neutral 0.0 WAR.
“They fought to the end, but came up short a little bit.”
— Nats’ manager Dave Martinez said after Wednesday’s game
The Nats starting pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.43 and 23rd in MLB.
Here is how they rank:
No. 5 Starter: Patrick Corbin 5.88
No. 4 Starter: DJ Herz 4.79
No. 3 Starter: MacKenzie Gore 4.54
No. 2 Starter: Mitchell Parker 4.31
No. 1 Starter: Jake Irvin 3.44
Washington Nationals vs. Milwaukee Brewers
Stadium: Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.
1st Pitch: 6:45 pm EDT
TV: AppleTV+
Radio: 106.7 The Fan radio and via the MLB app; In Spanish on DC 87.7 FM and La Pantera 100.7 FM/1220 AM. On Sirius/XM, tune to Channel 178 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
Line-up subject to change (without notice):
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Game 110:
The Nationals lost on 08/03 on the road against the Diamondbacks in a record of 58-52. They won’t drop below .500 the rest of the season. The Nats are in second place in the NL East. But you knew this already. Box Score / Standings
The Senators won on 08/10 on the road against the Chicago White Sox resulting in a record of 60-50. Box Score / Standings
