{"id":652177,"date":"2026-03-30T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652177\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:37:54","slug":"phillies-begin-3-game-series-against-the-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652177\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies begin 3-game series against the Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/washington-nationals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> (2-1) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (1-2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Philadelphia; Monday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/foster-griffin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foster Griffin<\/a> (0-0); Phillies: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/taijuan-walker-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taijuan Walker<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Phillies -174, Nationals +146; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Phillies begin a three-game series at home against the Washington Nationals on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Philadelphia had a 96-66 record overall and a 55-26 record at home last season. The Phillies averaged 3.1 extra base hits per game, including 1.3 home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Washington went 66-96 overall and 34-47 in road games a season ago. The Nationals slugged .389 as a team in the 2025 season while hitting 1.0 home run per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Phillies: Zack Wheeler: 15-Day IL (shoulder), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/max-lazar-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Lazar<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Orion Kerkering: 15-Day IL (hamstring)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Nationals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/trevor-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/josiah-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Paxton Schultz: 15-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals (2-1) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (1-2) Philadelphia; Monday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Foster Griffin (0-0);&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,75686,55398,12062,19,14093,4,144,25,4216,40,1544,4718,71],"class_list":["post-652177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-baseball","tag-event_preview","tag-foster-griffin","tag-josiah-gray","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-lazar","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-taijuan-walker","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116317458400955023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652177","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=652177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}