BALTIMORE \u2013 For the first time since 2018, the Nationals have won the Battle of the Beltways. Now they have a chance to sweep their first series at Camden Yards since that same 2018 season if they can pull off another victory in this afternoon\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n
The Nats finally scored early and often against an opposing starter Saturday, knocking Kyle Gibson out in the top of the first with six runs. The challenge is a bit tougher today in Zach Eflin, who has yet to give up more than three runs in any of his four starts this season, even with an IL stint mixed in there.<\/p>\n
Michael Soroka also missed time on the IL, and today the right-hander makes only his fourth start of the year. He\u2019s looked very good at times but has been done in by a couple of bad innings that have inflated his pitch count. The Nationals will be hoping today\u2019s the day he extends himself through the sixth inning and moves closer to the 100-pitch mark after topping out at 81 last time out.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON NATIONALS at BALTIMORE ORIOLES
Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Gametime: 1:35 p.m. EDT
TV: MASN2, MLB.tv
Radio: 106.7 FM, 87.7 FM (Spanish), MLB.com
Weather: Mostly sunny, 78 degrees, wind 17 mph out to right field<\/p>\n
NATIONALS
SS CJ Abrams
LF James Wood
1B Nathaniel Lowe
C Keibert Ruiz
2B Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.
DH Josh Bell
RF Alex Call
3B Jos\u00e9 Tena
CF Dylan Crews<\/p>\n
RHP Michael Soroka<\/p>\n
ORIOLES
2B Jackson Holliday
DH Ryan Mountcastle
SS Gunnar Henderson
C Adley Rutschman
1B Ryan O’Hearn
LF Ram\u00f3n Laureano
CF Cedric Mullins
RF Heston Kjerstad
3B Emmanuel Rivera<\/p>\n
RHP Zach Eflin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2013 For the first time since 2018, the Nationals have won the Battle of the Beltways. Now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,1360,908,907,1353,4,415,568,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-37186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-lineups","13":"tag-mark-zuckerman","14":"tag-masn","15":"tag-michael-soroka","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nationals","18":"tag-nationals-featured","19":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114530943335378923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186","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=37186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}