The Washington Nationals are happy to leave Flushing, New York, and hope that the Windy City blows some hits the Nats way. These are the final 10-games of the season with 4 in Wrigley, and then back home for the final 6 games split between the Royals and Phillies.
The Nats need to go 4-6 or better to beat their 2023 win total. How great would that be to finish in the mid-70’s for a win total? For the remainder of the season, the Nats will face teams with winning records with postseason aspirations on the line.
The Nats are deep 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 has not used Kyle Finnegan or Robert Garcia since the weekend. He went to his “B” bullpen again yesterday with Joe La Sorsa, Zach Brzykcy, and Jacob Barnes.
Manager Dave Martinez said that he would like to seed Trevor Williams back into the rotation on Friday against the Cubs. Here is a look at the matchups:
- Thursday: Patrick Corbin vs. Cubs
- Friday: MacKenzie Gore vs. Cubs
- Saturday: Trevor Williams
- Sunday Jake Irvin vs. Cubs
- Monday: Day-off September 23
- Tuesday: Mitchell Parker vs. Royals
- Wednesday: DJ Herz vs. Royals
- Thursday: Corbin vs. Royals
- Friday: Gore vs. Phillies
- Saturday: Williams vs. Phillies
- Sunday: Irvin vs. Phillies (Final Game of the Season)
Your top Washington Nationals on the FanGraphs’ WAR leaderboard has Luis Garcia Jr. at a WAR of +2.9, and Jacob Young at +2.6. CJ Abrams is at +1.7 WAR. There are 30 Nats’ players in positive WAR with another 7. Finally, Keibert Ruiz has worked his way back from -0.8 just last month to a positive +0.1 now.
— Nats’ manager Dave Martinez said after yesterday’s game
“We talk all the time about playing in our division. We’ve played some teams really well in our division. Some teams, we haven’t. The teams that we don’t play good against, we have to get better against them.”
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 5.45
No. 4 Starter: Mitchell Parker 4.44
No. 3 Starter: DJ Herz 4.30
No. 2 Starter: MacKenzie Gore 4.17
No. 1 Starter: Jake Irvin 4.07
Washington Nationals vs. Chicago Cubs
Stadium: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois
1st Pitch: 7:40 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 185 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
Line-up subject to change (without notice):
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