{"id":685749,"date":"2026-04-29T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/685749\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:06:17","slug":"new-york-mets-and-washington-nationals-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/685749\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets and Washington Nationals meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals (13-17, third in the NL East) vs. New York Mets (10-19, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n<p>New York; Wednesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Cade Cavalli (0-1, 4.01 ERA, 1.66 WHIP, 28 strikeouts); Mets: David Peterson (0-3, 5.06 ERA, 1.65 WHIP, 24 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Mets -165, Nationals +139; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>New York has a 10-19 record overall and a 6-10 record at home. The Mets have gone 6-1 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is 13-17 overall and 10-7 in road games. The Nationals have a 3-5 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup Wednesday is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Francisco Alvarez leads the Mets with four home runs while slugging .405. Francisco Lindor is 12 for 38 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>C.J. Abrams has three doubles, seven home runs and 21 RBIs while hitting .267 for the Nationals. Daylen Lile is 9 for 36 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 3-7, .235 batting average, 3.98 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n<p>Nationals: 4-6, .193 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Mets: Jorge Polanco: 10-Day IL (wrist), Kodai Senga: 15-Day IL (spinal lumbar ), Jared Young: 10-Day IL (knee), Francisco Lindor: 10-Day IL (calf), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Gerber: 15-Day IL (finger), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Justin Hagenman: 60-Day IL (rib), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>Nationals: Clayton Beeter: 15-Day IL (forearm), Trevor Williams: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk: 60-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Data Skrive&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sportradar&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals (13-17, third in the NL East) vs. New York Mets (10-19, fourth in the NL East)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[634,5,3573,2280,1187,759,15065,12063,1347,227,15622,33940,120,12062,25115,7145,1716,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,9019,3624,4718,1326,71],"class_list":["post-685749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-a-j-minter","tag-baseball","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-clayton-beeter","tag-cole-henry","tag-david-peterson","tag-daylen-lile","tag-dj-herz","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-jared-young","tag-joey-gerber","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-josiah-gray","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-reed-garrett","tag-the-nationals","tag-trevor-williams","tag-tylor-megill","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116487440558188595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685749","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=685749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}