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Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (20-25, third in the AL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (22-23, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Orioles: Chris Bassitt<\/a> (3-2, 5.21 ERA, 1.74 WHIP, 26 strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (1-2, 4.02 ERA, 1.59 WHIP, 44 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Orioles -111, Nationals -108; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals will try to keep their three-game home win streak intact when they face the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 22-23 record overall and a 7-13 record in home games. The Nationals have the sixth-best team slugging percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .407.<\/p>\n

Baltimore has an 8-13 record on the road and a 20-25 record overall. The Orioles have gone 15-4 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the second time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> leads the Nationals with 12 home runs while slugging .509. Daylen Lile<\/a> is 14 for 37 with four home runs and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Taylor Ward<\/a> has a home run, 43 walks and 12 RBIs while hitting .265 for the Orioles. Samuel Basallo<\/a> is 13 for 34 with four doubles, a triple and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .250 batting average, 5.42 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Orioles: 5-5, .217 batting average, 3.57 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Clayton Beeter: 15-Day IL (forearm), Max Kranick<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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

Orioles: Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl), Dylan Beavers: 10-Day IL (oblique), Grant Wolfram: 15-Day IL (back), Heston Kjerstad<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Cade Povich: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jackson Holliday<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Ryan Helsley<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Dean Kremer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (quadricep), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yaramil Hiraldo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot)<\/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":"Baltimore Orioles (20-25, third in the AL East) vs. Washington Nationals (22-23, third in the NL East) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,82,15065,913,75686,584,1752,1514,565,581,12062,7145,19,9670,4,125,109,7326,5694,4718,71],"class_list":["post-700334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-daylen-lile","tag-dean-kremer","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-bautista","tag-heston-kjerstad","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-james-wood","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-taylor-ward","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116583499304725693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700334","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=700334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}