{"id":667997,"date":"2026-04-07T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:40:24","slug":"nationals-face-the-cardinals-leading-series-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667997\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals face the Cardinals leading series 1-0"},"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\/st-louis-cardinals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (5-5) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/washington-nationals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> (4-6)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Washington; Tuesday, 6:45 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: Cardinals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/matt-liberatore-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (0-0, 1.64 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, four strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (0-0, 2.79 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, eight strikeouts)<\/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: Nationals -113, Cardinals -106; over\/under is 7 1\/2 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 Washington Nationals play the St. Louis Cardinals, leading the series 1-0.<\/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 32-49 in home games last season. The Nationals averaged 8.1 hits per game last season and totaled 161 home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">St. Louis had a 78-84 record overall and a 34-47 record in road games last season. The Cardinals scored 4.3 runs per game while allowing 4.7 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: 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=\"\">Cardinals: Matt Pushard: 15-Day IL (knee), Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (knee), Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels)<\/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":"St. Louis Cardinals (5-5) vs. Washington Nationals (4-6) Washington; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,75686,12062,19,1453,4,673,67,4311,4310,4718,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-667997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-josiah-gray","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-matthew-liberatore","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","17":"tag-stlouis","18":"tag-stlouiscardinals","19":"tag-trevor-williams","20":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116362531607661746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667997","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=667997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}