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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (8-12, fourth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (9-11, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Adrian Houser<\/a> (0-2, 5.06 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (0-1, 4.60 ERA, 1.72 WHIP, 13 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Giants -118, Nationals -101; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the San Francisco Giants looking to stop their three-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 9-11 record overall and a 1-6 record at home. The Nationals have the third-ranked team batting average in the NL at .261.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 8-12 overall and 5-5 on the road. The Giants have a 6-0 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: C.J. Abrams leads the Nationals with six home runs while slugging .682. James Wood<\/a> is 14 for 40 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez<\/a> has a double and two triples for the Giants. Casey Schmitt<\/a> is 14 for 38 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .244 batting average, 6.00 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 5-5, .285 batting average, 3.77 ERA, outscored opponents by six 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: Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Jose Butto: 15-Day IL (arm), Sam Hentges<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jared Oliva<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Reiver Sanmartin: 60-Day IL (hip), 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 (8-12, fourth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals (9-11, 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":[11710,5,9406,75686,365,565,59032,540,44621,12062,7145,85,19,4,415,12859,70335,9115,66,4718,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-678269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-adrian-houser","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-casey-schmitt","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-harrison-bader","13":"tag-james-wood","14":"tag-jared-oliva","15":"tag-jason-foley","16":"tag-joel-peguero","17":"tag-josiah-gray","18":"tag-ken-waldichuk","19":"tag-luis-arraez","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-nationals","23":"tag-randy-rodriguez","24":"tag-rowan-wick","25":"tag-sam-hentges","26":"tag-san-francisco-giants","27":"tag-trevor-williams","28":"tag-washington","29":"tag-washington-nationals","30":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116425096122907993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678269","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=678269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678269\/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=678269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}