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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (7-12, fifth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (9-10, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Friday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Logan Webb<\/a> (1-2, 5.25 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 21 strikeouts); Nationals: Zack Littell<\/a> (0-1, 4.20 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Giants -158, Nationals +132; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the San Francisco Giants on Friday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 9-10 record overall and a 1-5 record in home games. The Nationals have the fifth-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .262.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 4-5 record on the road and a 7-12 record overall. The Giants have a 2-0 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: C.J. Abrams leads the Nationals with six home runs while slugging .710. James Wood<\/a> is 15 for 38 with three doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez<\/a> has a double and two triples while hitting .313 for the Giants. Willy Adames<\/a> is 12 for 39 with seven doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .255 batting average, 5.60 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 4-6, .270 batting average, 3.77 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Giants: Jared Oliva<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jose Butto: 15-Day IL (arm), Reiver Sanmartin: 60-Day IL (hip), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Sam Hentges<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Jason Foley<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 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":"San Francisco Giants (7-12, fifth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals (9-10, third in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,75686,365,565,59032,540,44621,12062,7145,112,85,19,4,415,12859,70335,9115,66,4718,414,71,4222,103,5170],"class_list":{"0":"post-677472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-harrison-bader","11":"tag-james-wood","12":"tag-jared-oliva","13":"tag-jason-foley","14":"tag-joel-peguero","15":"tag-josiah-gray","16":"tag-ken-waldichuk","17":"tag-logan-webb","18":"tag-luis-arraez","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-nationals","22":"tag-randy-rodriguez","23":"tag-rowan-wick","24":"tag-sam-hentges","25":"tag-san-francisco-giants","26":"tag-trevor-williams","27":"tag-washington","28":"tag-washington-nationals","29":"tag-washingtonnationals","30":"tag-willy-adames","31":"tag-zack-littell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116419079958177467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677472","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=677472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677472\/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=677472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}