{"id":672370,"date":"2026-04-10T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672370\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:09:32","slug":"brewers-play-the-nationals-in-first-of-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672370\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers play the Nationals in first of 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Nationals<\/a> (4-8, fifth in the NL East) vs. Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (8-4, first in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Milwaukee; Friday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (1-1, 8.00 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 11 strikeouts); Brewers: Chad Patrick<\/a> (1-0, 0.96 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, seven strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Brewers -200, Nationals +165; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers begin a three-game series at home against the Washington Nationals on Friday.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has an 8-4 record overall and a 5-1 record at home. The Brewers have a 7-0 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 3-3 record on the road and a 4-8 record overall. The Nationals are 1-0 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Gary Sanchez<\/a> ranks sixth on the Brewers with three extra base hits (three home runs). Christian Yelich is 11 for 34 with two doubles, a triple, a home run and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

C.J. Abrams leads the Nationals with four home runs while slugging .571. James Wood<\/a> is 10 for 42 with three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Brewers: 6-4, .233 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 3-7, .272 batting average, 6.10 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Brewers: Jared Koenig: 15-Day IL (elbow), Andrew Vaughn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Craig Yoho<\/a>: 15-Day IL (calf), Rob Zastryzny: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Chourio: 10-Day IL (hand), Quinn Priester: 15-Day IL (wrist), Akil Baddoo: 60-Day IL (quadricep)<\/p>\n

Nationals: Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals (4-8, fifth in the NL East) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (8-4, first in the NL Central) Milwaukee;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[1749,5,136,4838,3924,75686,1127,496,565,12062,19,843,59,4280,4,4718,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-672370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-andrew-vaughn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-chad-patrick","12":"tag-craig-yoho","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-gary-sanchez","15":"tag-jake-irvin","16":"tag-james-wood","17":"tag-josiah-gray","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-milwaukee","20":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","21":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-trevor-williams","24":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116379868598542432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672370","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=672370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672370\/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=672370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}