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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (17-14, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (15-18, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Kyle Harrison<\/a> (2-1, 2.28 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 30 strikeouts); Nationals: Foster Griffin (3-0, 2.67 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 30 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -136, Nationals +114; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers play the Washington Nationals after William Contreras<\/a> had four hits on Friday in a 6-1 win over the Nationals.<\/p>\n

Washington has gone 3-11 in home games and 15-18 overall. Nationals hitters have a collective .322 on-base percentage, the ninth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has a 7-6 record on the road and a 17-14 record overall. The Brewers have a 15-2 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the fifth time these teams square off this season. The Nationals have a 3-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> leads the Nationals with 10 home runs while slugging .524. Luis Garcia<\/a> is 10 for 35 with three doubles and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Contreras leads the Brewers with a .302 batting average, and has seven doubles, three home runs, 13 walks and 23 RBIs. David Hamilton<\/a> is 12 for 34 with four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .207 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Brewers: 5-5, .269 batting average, 3.23 ERA, outscored opponents by 24 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), 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), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), Jackson Chourio: 10-Day IL (hand), Quinn Priester: 15-Day IL (wrist), Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Angel Zerpa: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jared Koenig<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Rob Zastryzny: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Akil Baddoo: 60-Day IL (quadricep), Andrew Vaughn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Christian Yelich: 10-Day IL (groin)<\/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":"Milwaukee Brewers (17-14, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Washington Nationals (15-18, 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":[2401],"tags":[1749,5,127,136,17761,75686,11714,565,7881,12062,7145,2168,911,19,843,59,4280,4,4718,71,3801],"class_list":["post-688317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brewers","tag-david-hamilton","tag-event_preview","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-james-wood","tag-jared-koenig","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kyle-harrison","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals","tag-william-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116504533637636805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688317","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=688317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}