{"id":682389,"date":"2026-04-25T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/682389\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:09:21","slug":"nationals-enter-matchup-with-the-white-sox-on-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/682389\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals enter matchup with the White Sox on losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Nationals<\/a> (11-16, third in the NL East) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (11-15, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (1-3, 6.00 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 25 strikeouts); White Sox: Noah Schultz (1-1, 3.86 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -142, Nationals +119; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals enter the matchup with the Chicago White Sox after losing three in a row.<\/p>\n

The White Sox are 11-15 overall and 4-6 at home. The White Sox have an 8-4 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The Nationals have an 11-16 record overall and an 8-6 record on the road. The Nationals have a 2-5 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Colson Montgomery<\/a> has five doubles, seven home runs and 19 RBIs for the White Sox. Munetaka Murakami<\/a> is 15 for 39 with seven home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

James Wood<\/a> has six doubles and 10 home runs while hitting .250 for the Nationals. Daylen Lile<\/a> is 12 for 38 with three doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 5-5, .275 batting average, 5.09 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 3-7, .213 batting average, 4.79 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: White Sox: Chris Murphy<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan Cannon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Hays: 10-Day IL (hamstring)<\/p>\n

Nationals: Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (11-16, third in the NL East) vs. Chicago White Sox (11-15, fourth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,49,14167,10448,15065,75686,496,565,5794,12062,7145,19,6278,4,73,415,4718,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-682389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-murphy","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-daylen-lile","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-wood","tag-jonathan-cannon","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-nationals","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116465039004673202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682389","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=682389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}