Philadelphia Phillies (70-52, first in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (49-73, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n
Washington; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Taijuan Walker (4-5, 3.39 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 62 strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (0-0, 3.86 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, nine strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Phillies -151, Nationals +127; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday.<\/p>\n Washington has a 23-37 record in home games and a 49-73 record overall. The Nationals are 10th in the NL with 117 total home runs, averaging 1.0 per game.<\/p>\n Philadelphia is 70-52 overall and 33-31 on the road. The Phillies have the sixth-best team on-base percentage in the majors at .324.<\/p>\n The teams square off Saturday for the ninth time this season. The Phillies are ahead 5-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: C.J. Abrams has a .266 batting average to lead the Nationals, and has 26 doubles, five triples and 16 home runs. James Wood is 12 for 42 with a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Trea Turner has 26 doubles, four triples, 12 home runs and 52 RBIs while hitting .286 for the Phillies. Brandon Marsh is 9 for 28 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .238 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n Phillies: 6-4, .231 batting average, 3.00 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nationals: Trevor Williams: 60-Day IL (elbow), Keibert Ruiz: 7-Day IL (concussion), Derek Law: 60-Day IL (forearm), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Phillies: Jhoan Duran: day-to-day (foot), Daniel Robert: 15-Day IL (blister), Alec Bohm: 10-Day IL (ribcage), Aaron Nola: 60-Day IL (ankle)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies (70-52, first in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (49-73, fifth in the NL East) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[1206,1651,5,6157,3573,1142,3572,12063,12062,2101,4,415,7439,25,1544,1713,4718,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-251509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-aaron-nola","9":"tag-alec-bohm","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brandon-marsh","12":"tag-cade-cavalli","13":"tag-daniel-robert","14":"tag-derek-law","15":"tag-dj-herz","16":"tag-josiah-gray","17":"tag-keibert-ruiz","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-nationals","20":"tag-nl-east","21":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","22":"tag-taijuan-walker","23":"tag-trea-turner","24":"tag-trevor-williams","25":"tag-washington","26":"tag-washington-nationals","27":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115037524399322365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251509","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=251509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251509\/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=251509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}