Washington Nationals (1-0) vs. Chicago Cubs (0-1)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Saturday, 2:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Miles Mikolas (0-0); Cubs: Cade Horton (0-0)<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals meet the Chicago Cubs with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n
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Chicago had a 92-70 record overall and a 50-31 record at home last season. The Cubs averaged 8.5 hits per game last season while batting a collective .249 and slugging .430.<\/p>\n
Washington went 66-96 overall and 34-47 in road games last season. The Nationals averaged 8.1 hits per game last season and totaled 161 home runs.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Cubs: Porter Hodge: 15-Day IL (elbow), Seiya Suzuki: 10-Day IL (knee), Justin Steele: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Wicks: 15-Day IL (forearm), Shelby Miller: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n
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Nationals: Trevor Williams: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow), Paxton Schultz: 15-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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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":"Washington Nationals (1-0) vs. Chicago Cubs (0-1) Chicago; Saturday, 2:20 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Miles Mikolas (0-0);…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,735,138,24,4245,161,12063,875,12062,393,123,4,15584,889,105,849,3624,4718,414,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-648371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cade-horton","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-dj-herz","15":"tag-jordan-wicks","16":"tag-josiah-gray","17":"tag-justin-steele","18":"tag-miles-mikolas","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-paxton-schultz","21":"tag-porter-hodge","22":"tag-seiya-suzuki","23":"tag-shelby-miller","24":"tag-the-nationals","25":"tag-trevor-williams","26":"tag-washington","27":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116306185567215748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648371","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=648371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}