It was a long Tuesday at the ballpark, and after a quick cat nap, we\u2019re all right back here this morning for an early matinee. If this game starts on time and is completed in fewer than 3 1\/2 hours, the Nationals and Guardians will have completed an entire three-game series in less than 24 hours. That doesn\u2019t happen often.<\/p>\n
After splitting the doubleheader, the Nats would love to emerge victorious today and win their second consecutive series against a contending team from Ohio. That would get them back to within two games of the .500 mark, with some positive momentum heading in the right direction before the Cardinals come to town this weekend.<\/p>\n
The big story coming in today: The return of Michael Soroka from the injured list. The 27-year-old right-hander made only one start back on March 31 before straining his biceps muscle. It took a little longer than hoped, but he\u2019s back now and hoping to build off his 11-strikeout rehab start for Triple-A Rochester. This Cleveland lineup doesn\u2019t strike out a lot, so that may make for a stiff challenge for Soroka.<\/p>\n
The Nationals lineup had a wild Tuesday, scoring 10 runs in the opener, then one run in the nightcap. Consistency is needed, and a strong early showing against Guardians left-hander Logan Allen would sure be helpful. Allen was roughed up by the Red Sox to the tune of seven runs two starts ago, but he bounced back with two earned runs allowed last time out against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
CLEVELAND GUARDIANS at WASHINGTON NATIONALS
Where: Nationals Park
Gametime: 12:05 p.m. EDT
TV: MASN2, MLB.tv
Radio: 106.7 FM, 87.7 FM (Spanish), MLB.com
Weather: Partly cloudy, 72 degrees, wind 9 mph left field to right field<\/p>\n
GUARDIANS
DH\u00a0Steven Kwan
LF Daniel Schneemann
3B Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez
1B Carlos Santana
2B\u00a0Gabriel Arias
C Bo Naylor
CF Angel Mart\u00ednez
RF Nolan Jones
SS Brayan Rocchio<\/p>\n
LHP Logan Allen<\/p>\n
NATIONALS
SS CJ Abrams
3B Amed Rosario
DH James Wood
1B Nathaniel Lowe
LF Alex Call
C Keibert Ruiz
2B Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.
RF Dylan Crews
CF Jacob Young<\/p>\n
RHP Michael Soroka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a long Tuesday at the ballpark, and after a quick cat nap, we\u2019re all right back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,51,1360,908,907,1353,4,415,568,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-13572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland-guardians","10":"tag-lineups","11":"tag-mark-zuckerman","12":"tag-masn","13":"tag-michael-soroka","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nationals","16":"tag-nationals-featured","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-nationals","19":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114478464725132698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}