Washington Nationals (37-53, fifth in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (48-43, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
St. Louis; Tuesday, 7:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jake Irvin (7-3, 4.71 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 75 strikeouts); Cardinals: Sonny Gray (8-3, 3.51 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 107 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Cardinals -192, Nationals +159; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals, on a three-game losing streak, play the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n St. Louis has a 26-17 record in home games and a 48-43 record overall. The Cardinals are eighth in the NL with 91 total home runs, averaging 1.0 per game.<\/p>\n Washington has a 37-53 record overall and a 19-25 record in road games. The Nationals rank 10th in the NL with 87 total home runs, averaging 1.0 per game.<\/p>\n The teams match up Tuesday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Brendan Donovan has seven home runs, 31 walks and 32 RBIs while hitting .296 for the Cardinals. Masyn Winn is 9 for 39 with two doubles and an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n James Wood has 19 doubles, 23 home runs and 67 RBIs for the Nationals. Paul DeJong is 3 for 13 with a double, a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 4-6, .222 batting average, 4.87 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n Nationals: 4-6, .284 batting average, 6.40 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Cardinals: Nolan Arenado: day-to-day (shoulder), Jordan Walker: 10-Day IL (appendicitis), Ivan Herrera: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Zack Thompson: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n Nationals: Derek Law: 60-Day IL (forearm), Trevor Williams: 15-Day IL (elbow), Dylan Crews: 10-Day IL (back), Orlando Ribalta: 15-Day IL (biceps), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals (37-53, fifth in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (48-43, third in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,4492,3572,12063,566,6012,496,4679,12062,1553,4,415,7439,1028,12061,1226,1587,673,67,4718,414,71,4222,5422],"class_list":{"0":"post-160525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brendan-donovan","10":"tag-derek-law","11":"tag-dj-herz","12":"tag-dylan-crews","13":"tag-ivan-herrera","14":"tag-jake-irvin","15":"tag-jordan-walker","16":"tag-josiah-gray","17":"tag-masyn-winn","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-nationals","20":"tag-nl-east","21":"tag-nolan-arenado","22":"tag-orlando-ribalta","23":"tag-paul-dejong","24":"tag-sonny-gray","25":"tag-st-louis","26":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","27":"tag-trevor-williams","28":"tag-washington","29":"tag-washington-nationals","30":"tag-washingtonnationals","31":"tag-zack-thompson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114817000757359151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160525","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=160525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}