{"id":3638,"date":"2025-05-06T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/3638\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:16:42","slug":"guardians-nationals-series-opener-postponed-because-of-rain-twinbill-set-for-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/3638\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians-Nationals series opener postponed because of rain, twinbill set for Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The opener of a three-game series between the Cleveland Guardians and Washington Nationals was postponed Monday night because of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be made up as part of a traditional doubleheader starting at 3:35 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Luis Ortiz (2-3, 4.78 ERA) had been scheduled to start Monday for Cleveland against Washington&#8217;s Jake Irvin (2-1, 4.01).<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians said Ortiz will start Tuesday&#8217;s opener, followed by Ben Lively (1-2, 3.72) in the nightcap. Irvin will pitch Game 1 for the Nationals, with Brad Lord (1-3, 4.43) going in the second game.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams simply pushed back their Monday night starters to the opener on Tuesday and kept their scheduled Tuesday night starters unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians have won five of six and sit 1 1\/2 games behind first-place Detroit in the AL Central. The Nationals won two of three in a weekend series at Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The opener of a three-game series between the Cleveland Guardians and Washington Nationals was postponed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,2567,1902,535,135,51,2565,147,538,496,2566,4,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-3638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ben-lively","10":"tag-brad-lord","11":"tag-cincinnati","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-clevelandguardians","15":"tag-detroit","16":"tag-guardians","17":"tag-jake-irvin","18":"tag-luis-ortiz","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114458013471539122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","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=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}