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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (15-7, first in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (10-12, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Bryce Elder<\/a> (2-1, 0.77 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 23 strikeouts); Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (1-2, 6.16 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 21 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -169, Nationals +142; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves will try to keep a five-game road win streak going when they play the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n

Washington is 2-7 at home and 10-12 overall. The Nationals have gone 2-4 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 15-7 record overall and a 7-3 record on the road. The Braves are 1-2 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Monday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Daylen Lile<\/a> has six doubles, a home run and eight RBIs for the Nationals. James Wood<\/a> is 11 for 38 with three doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ozzie Albies<\/a> has three doubles and four home runs for the Braves. Austin Riley<\/a> is 13 for 42 with three doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .248 batting average, 5.18 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 8-2, .299 batting average, 3.40 ERA, outscored opponents by 29 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

Braves: Raisel Iglesias: day-to-day (shoulder), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee), Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Atlanta Braves (15-7, first in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (10-12, third in the NL East) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,662,5,192,4720,1563,15065,75686,38015,496,565,10367,12062,7145,19,4,1132,656,659,4718,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-679678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-austin-riley","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-bryce-elder","15":"tag-danny-young","16":"tag-daylen-lile","17":"tag-event_preview","18":"tag-hurston-waldrep","19":"tag-jake-irvin","20":"tag-james-wood","21":"tag-joe-jimenez","22":"tag-josiah-gray","23":"tag-ken-waldichuk","24":"tag-major-league-baseball","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-ozzie-albies","27":"tag-sean-murphy","28":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","29":"tag-trevor-williams","30":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116436372659666003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679678","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=679678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679678\/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=679678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}