{"id":692504,"date":"2026-05-07T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/692504\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:12:16","slug":"nationals-square-off-against-the-twins-in-series-rubber-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/692504\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals square off against the Twins in series rubber match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Twins<\/a> (16-21, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (17-20, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Thursday, 1:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Simeon Woods Richardson<\/a> (0-5, 6.49 ERA, 1.76 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (1-4, 4.93 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 39 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -110, Twins -109; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Washington Nationals and the Minnesota Twins are looking for a series win with a victory on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Washington is 17-20 overall and 5-13 at home. The Nationals have the ninth-ranked team batting average in the NL at .241.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 16-21 overall and 6-11 in road games. The Twins have a 6-15 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Daylen Lile<\/a> has nine doubles and three home runs for the Nationals. Brady House<\/a> is 8 for 36 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brooks Lee<\/a> has four doubles, five home runs and 21 RBIs for the Twins. Byron Buxton<\/a> is 13 for 42 with a double and six home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .217 batting average, 2.77 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 4-6, .243 batting average, 5.83 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Max Kranick: 15-Day IL (elbow), Luis Garcia<\/a>: day-to-day (wrist), 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

Twins: Cody Laweryson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Joe Ryan<\/a>: day-to-day (elbow), Cole Sands<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Garrett Acton: 15-Day IL (shoulder), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 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":"Minnesota Twins (16-21, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals (17-20, 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":[2388],"tags":[5,20666,1391,2223,43253,9707,3916,15065,75686,496,1455,12062,7145,2098,911,19,5158,822,60,3190,4,1997,3478,4718,148,71],"class_list":["post-692504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-minnesota-twins","tag-baseball","tag-brady-house","tag-brooks-lee","tag-byron-buxton","tag-cody-laweryson","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-daylen-lile","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-joe-ryan","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-luis-garcia","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-simeon-woods-richardson","tag-trevor-williams","tag-twins","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116532290746164906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692504","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=692504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}