The Washington Nationals have won 55-games this year and just sunk to a season’s low of 14-games under .500. The team is mired in a 4-game losing streak and must look to Jake Irvin as the stopper. You would have to dig deep for some positives from the past four games. They have been there if you look hard enough. The team’s last win was with Irvin as their starter against Baltimore. The Nats need him to throw an ace performance on the mound.
Based on last year’s win total of 71-games, the Nats need to go 17-21 or better to beat that total. To beat the 66-win total from FanGraphs, the Nats need to win 12 more games. There are just 38-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.
The Nats are underdogs today, at +150 to win on the moneyline. That means if you bet $100 you would win $150. Bet $10.00 and you win $15.00.
Nats’ manager Dave Martinez only needed to use two relievers yesterday with Joe La Sorsa and Joan Adon. The bullpen certainly would be fresh if needed, and there is a team day-off tomorrow.
This is what the Nats schedule looks like going forward:
- Sunday: Jake Irvin vs. Phillies
- Monday: Day-Off
- Tuesday: DJ Herz vs. Rockies
- Wednesday: Mitchell Parker vs. Rockies
- Thursday: Patrick Corbin vs. Rockies
- Friday: MacKenzie Gore vs. Braves
- Saturday: Irvin vs. Braves
- Sunday: Herz vs. Braves
Your top Washington Nationals on the FanGraphs’ WAR leaderboard has Luis Garcia Jr. atop of the WAR rankings at +2.8, Jacob Young at +2.2 and CJ Abrams at +2.0. In total, 25 Nats’ players are in positive WAR and another 10 are at a neutral 0.0 WAR.
“MacKenzie [Gore] threw the ball really well for five innings. I gave him every opportunity to try to get out of the sixth inning, but he just couldn’t do it. He threw the ball way better. Way better. Efficiency was good. He was attacking the strike zone. Everything was down. When he got hit, he got the ball up. But he threw the ball better.”
— Nats’ manager Dave Martinez said after yesterday’s game
The Nats starting pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.53 and 22nd in MLB.
Here is how they rank:
No. 5 Starter: Patrick Corbin 5.92
No. 4 Starter: MacKenzie Gore 4.66
No. 3 Starter: Mitchell Parker 4.44
No. 2 Starter: DJ Herz 4.25
No. 1 Starter: Jake Irvin 3.72
Washington Nationals vs. Philadelphia Phillies
Stadium: Citizens Bank Ballpark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1st Pitch: 1:35 pm EDT
TV: MASN2
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 177 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
Line-up subject to change (without notice):
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