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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (16-14, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (15-17, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> (1-2, 3.31 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (1-3, 4.85 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 34 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -159, Nationals +134; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers play the Washington Nationals after William Contreras<\/a>‘ four-hit game on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 15-17 record overall and a 3-10 record in home games. The Nationals have a 10-3 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has a 6-6 record in road games and a 16-14 record overall. The Brewers have an 11-3 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> has seven doubles, 10 home runs and 24 RBIs for the Nationals. Curtis Mead<\/a> is 6 for 27 with a double, three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brice Turang<\/a> has a .291 batting average to lead the Brewers, and has eight doubles, a triple and four home runs. Contreras is 11 for 39 with a home run and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .208 batting average, 3.80 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Brewers: 4-6, .256 batting average, 3.47 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Clayton Beeter: 15-Day IL (forearm), 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

Brewers: Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: day-to-day (undisclosed), Angel Zerpa: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jared Koenig<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jackson Chourio: 10-Day IL (hand), Rob Zastryzny: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Akil Baddoo: 60-Day IL (quadricep), Quinn Priester: 15-Day IL (wrist), Andrew Vaughn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Christian Yelich: 10-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers (16-14, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Washington Nationals (15-17, third in the NL East) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[1749,5,127,3800,6524,75686,11714,496,565,7881,12062,7145,19,59,4,415,4718,414,71,4222,3801],"class_list":["post-687394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-washington-nationals","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brice-turang","tag-curtis-mead","tag-event_preview","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-wood","tag-jared-koenig","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-william-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116498387680940327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687394","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=687394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}