The Washington Nationals got that ace performance they needed from Jake Irvin as he was throwing a no-hitter with two outs into the sixth inning before it ended on double. The Nats won — and basically shutdown the Braves by a final score of 5-1. For the season series, the Nats beat the Braves 8-5 in the 13-game head-to-head matchups.
A couple of other notes were that Jose Tena played second base for the first time last night in a regular season game without any issues, and CJ Abrams hit his 20th home run to become the fifth member of the 20/20 club in Nats history. With two more steals, he would join the 20/30 club as the second member with Alfonso Soriano. For a while, Abrams looked like a lock for the 30/30 club until he fell into a long slump in the second half of the season. Now we will see if Abrams can go en fuego for the remainder of the 2024 season.
The Nats need to go 7-10 or better to beat their 2023 win total. How great would that be to finish in the mid-70’s for a win total? After this 4-game series with the Marlins, the Nats will only face teams in competition for the postseason.
The Nats are deep favorites today, at -180 to win on the moneyline. That means if you bet $180 you would win $100. Bet $18.00 and you win $10.00.
Nats’ manager Dave Martinez got that deep start from Irvin, and only needed Derek Law, Jose Ferrer, and Kyle Finnegan for the zeroes from his bullpen to notch the Wednesday night win.
This is what the Nats schedule looks like going forward, and the plan is to get Trevor Williams back into the rotation and finish the final week-and-a-half of the season with a 6-man rotation:
- Thursday: Mitchell Parker vs. Marlins
- Friday: DJ Herz vs. Marlins
- Saturday: Patrick Corbin vs. Marlins
- Sunday: MacKenzie Gore vs. Marlins
- Monday: Jake Irvin vs. Mets
- Tuesday: Parker vs. Mets
- Wednesday: Herz vs. Mets
- Thursday: Corbin vs. Cubs
- Friday: Gore vs. Cubs
- Saturday: Irvin vs. Cubs
- Sunday: Parker vs. Cubs
- Monday: Day-off September 23
- Tuesday: Herz vs. Royals
- Wednesday: Corbin vs. Royals
- Thursday: Gore vs. Royals
- Friday: Irvin vs. Phillies
- Saturday: Parker vs. Phillies
- Sunday: Herz vs. Phillies (Final Game of the Season)
Your top Washington Nationals on the FanGraphs’ WAR leaderboard has Jacob Young at +2.8, Luis Garcia Jr. at a WAR of +2.8, and CJ Abrams has sunk all the way back to +1.6. In total, 29 Nats’ players are in positive WAR and another seven are at a neutral 0.0 WAR.
“That’s a heck of an accomplishment for a young player. I’m really proud of [CJ Abrams]. He’s been battling every day. To get that out of the way, maybe he can relax a little bit and finish the season up strong.”
— Nats’ manager Dave Martinez said after yesterday’s game
The Nats starting pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.49 and 22nd in MLB.
Here is how they rank:
No. 5 Starter: Patrick Corbin 5.60
No. 4 Starter: Mitchell Parker 4.43
No. 3 Starter: MacKenzie Gore 4.34
No. 2 Starter: Jake Irvin 4.19
No. 1 Starter: DJ Herz 3.82
Washington Nationals vs. Miami Marlins
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 178 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
Line-up subject to change (without notice):
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