With fewer than seven weeks of baseball remaining for the Washington Nationals’ 2024 season, Patrick Corbin‘s remaining starts, after tonight, for the Nats will be counting down in single digits. He is still in search of his 100th career regular season win.
Based on last year’s win total of 71-games, the Nats need to go 19-26 or better to beat that total. There are just 45-games remaining in the season, and the rest of this season is really supposed to help to determine the players who could help impact the 2025 roster.
Yesterday we wrote that you should expect some roster changes and Jose Tena and Jordan Weems are up for Trey Lipscomb and Joan Adon. We will see if we see the hot Andres Chaparro, Brady House, and Dylan Crews who are all on the watchlist, and of course there’s Joey Gallo who is rehabbing in Triple-A — and should return no later than Monday.
The Nats are even odds today, at -110 to win on the moneyline. That means if you bet $110 you would win $100. Bet $11.00 and you win $10.00.
Nats’ manager Dave Martinez‘s bullpen had to cover 3 2/3 innings which included extra innings. Martinez only used two relievers in this game with Jacob Barnes going 1 2/3 and Kyle Finnegan needed to throw 29-pitches to close out the win yesterday in 2.0 scoreless innings. You would like to rest Finnegan, Barnes, Derek Law and Eduardo Salazar if you can tonight.
This is what the Nats schedule looks like going forward:
- Saturday: Patrick Corbin vs. Angels
- Sunday: MacKenzie Gore vs. Angels
- Monday: Day-off (August 12)
- Tuesday: Jake Irvin vs. Baltimore
- Wednesday: DJ Herz vs. Baltimore
- Thursday: Mitchell Parker vs. Phillies
- Friday: Corbin vs. Phillies
- Saturday: Gore vs. Phillies
- Sunday: Irvin vs. Phillies
Your top Washington Nationals on the FanGraphs’ WAR leaderboard has Luis Garcia Jr. atop of the WAR rankings at +2.6, and CJ Abrams at +2.0 and Jacob Young at +19. In total, 23 Nats’ players are in positive WAR and another seven are at a neutral 0.0 WAR.
“Sometimes it only takes one more than the other guys.”
— Nats’ manager Dave Martinez said after yesterday’s game
The Nats starting pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.42 and 22nd in MLB.
Here is how they rank:
No. 5 Starter: Patrick Corbin 5.88
No. 4 Starter: MacKenzie Gore 4.66
No. 3 Starter: DJ Herz 4.41
No. 2 Starter: Mitchell Parker 3.83
No. 1 Starter: Jake Irvin 3.76
Washington Nationals vs. Los Angeles Angels
Stadium: Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.
1st Pitch: 6:45 pm EDT
TV: MASN
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 179 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
Line-up subject to change (without notice):
TalkNats is Celebrating the 5 and 100 year anniversaries of World Series Wins by providing Game-by-Game Summaries.
Game 118:
The Nationals won on 08/12 at home against the Reds in a record of 63-55. 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 08/19 at home against the Detroit Tigers resulting in a record of 66-52. The Senators on that day took over sole possession of second place. Box Score / Standings
