CJ Abrams goes airborne to score the winning run; Photo by Sol Tucker for TalkNats
The Washington Nationals have Brad Lord on the mound, and the Nats could really use a win from this starter to keep the positivity flowing forward from last night’s walk-off win.
We spoke yesterday about how the Juan Soto trade changed the Nationals trajectory with MacKenzie Gore, James Wood, and CJ Abrams all becoming key parts of this 2025 Nats team and in a juxtaposition of Soto not catching Dylan Crews‘ 9th inning flyball that turned into the game tying run, and then Wood and Abrams combining for the walk-off run brings some strange irony to one game in baseball.
“They want to win. The only way to explain it is they’re playing each game to win, and every time we win — they feel it. And it’s a great feeling, and they celebrate. So it’s been great. Like I said today, we face a tough opponent. We got down and we come back and win like that, it’s amazing.”
— said manager Dave Martinez
You can see the recent bullpen usage here:
Here are your Nats’ WAR leaders with MacKenzie Gore followed by James Wood, Mitchell Parker, and CJ Abrams. On defense, Paul DeJong and Nasim Nunez are your OAA leaders , and Luis Garcia Jr. has slumped to a -3.0 already. Unfortunately Garcia‘s defensive struggles are back after he put him good defense last year. Another issue that we have discussed is the positioning of Nathaniel Lowe at first base as he is too often out of position to make a play — and OAA has his chance at success at only 56 percent which must improve. These are your stats leaders on BBRef. There are certainly some surprises on there — good and not so good — but the gap is widening.
“They’re a division rival. These are games that we have to win. Maybe it’s just digging a little bit deeper — but these are games you really, really want. Just tried to give us a chance.”
— starting pitcher Jake Irvin said
The Nats starting pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.41 and 6th best in MLB. The reliever’s ERA sits at a 6.89 and is the worst in MLB.
Here is how the starters rank by ERA:
No. 5 Starter: Trevor Williams 5.11
No. 4 Starter: Michael Soroka 7.20
No. 3 Starter: Mitchell Parker 1.39
No. 2 Starter: Jake Irvin 3.19
No. 1 Starter: MacKenzie Gore 3.34
New York Mets vs. Washington Nationals
Stadium: Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.
1st Pitch: 4:05 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):
