After a much-needed day off, the Nationals are back in action with a weekend series against the Cardinals, looking to take two of three and ensure at least a .500 homestand. And they\u2019ll be facing an old friend in tonight\u2019s opener.<\/p>\n
Erick Fedde gets the start for St. Louis, his first appearance at Nationals Park since Sept. 30, 2022, when he took a 5-1 loss to the Phillies. The former Nats first-round pick went off to South Korea the following year and resurrected his career, earning a two-year contract with the White Sox, who promptly traded him to the Cardinals last summer. Fedde has made seven starts so far this season, two of them blowups involving six or more runs allowed, but four of them quality starts.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Parker is coming off back-to-back rough starts himself and needs to get back on track tonight. The left-hander has issued nine walks over his last nine innings, and that\u2019s been the obvious source of his struggles. He got a couple extra days of rest since last Friday\u2019s outing in Cincinnati. Hopefully he used it well and has more command of the strike zone tonight.<\/p>\n
An important reminder: Tonight\u2019s game is only on Apple TV+. It\u2019ll be Rich Waltz, Ryan Spilborghs and Tricia Whitaker with the call.<\/p>\n
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS at WASHINGTON NATIONALS
Where: Nationals Park
Gametime: 6:45 p.m. EDT
TV: Apple TV+
Radio: 106.7 FM, 87.7 FM (Spanish), MLB.com
Weather: Partly cloudy, 62 degrees, wind 12 mph in from left field<\/p>\n
CARDINALS
LF Lars Nootbaar
SS Masyn Winn
2B Brendan Donovan
3B Nolan Arenado
1B Wilson Contreras
DH Iv\u00e1n Herrera
RF Jordan Walker
C Pedro Pag\u00e9s
CF Victor Scott II<\/p>\n
RHP Erick Fedde<\/p>\n
NATIONALS
SS CJ Abrams
LF James Wood
1B Nathaniel Lowe
C Keibert Ruiz
2B Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.
3B Amed Rosario
DH Josh Bell
CF Jacob Young
RF Dylan Crews<\/p>\n
LHP Mitchell Parker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a much-needed day off, the Nationals are back in action with a weekend series against the Cardinals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,133,1360,908,907,912,4,415,568,67,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-14765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-erick-fedde","10":"tag-lineups","11":"tag-mark-zuckerman","12":"tag-masn","13":"tag-mitchell-parker","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nationals","16":"tag-nationals-featured","17":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","18":"tag-washington","19":"tag-washington-nationals","20":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114480985639731254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765","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=14765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}