{"id":706462,"date":"2026-05-23T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/706462\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:36:16","slug":"braves-meet-the-nationals-with-1-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/706462\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves meet the Nationals with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Nationals<\/a> (25-27, third in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (36-16, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (1-4, 5.79 ERA, 1.48 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Braves: Grant Holmes<\/a> (3-1, 3.80 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 38 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -193, Nationals +159; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves play the Washington Nationals, leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 17-8 record in home games and a 36-16 record overall. The Braves are first in the NL with 72 total home runs, averaging 1.4 per game.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 25-27 record overall and a 15-11 record on the road. The Nationals have a 19-11 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Braves are ahead 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ozzie Albies<\/a> has eight doubles, eight home runs and 27 RBIs while hitting .270 for the Braves. Dominic Smith<\/a> is 11 for 31 with a double, a triple and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

C.J. Abrams has a .299 batting average to lead the Nationals, and has 11 doubles, two triples and 11 home runs. Keibert Ruiz<\/a> is 13 for 30 with three home runs and 13 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 7-3, .238 batting average, 2.93 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 5-5, .242 batting average, 5.73 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Drake Baldwin: 10-Day IL (oblique), Kyle Farmer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Nationals: Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals (25-27, third in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (36-16, first in the NL East) Atlanta;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,1563,18701,75686,640,38015,496,10367,12062,2101,7145,9978,19,9670,4,1132,656,659,4718,71],"class_list":["post-706462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-danny-young","tag-dominic-smith","tag-event_preview","tag-grant-holmes","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-jake-irvin","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-josiah-gray","tag-keibert-ruiz","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-mlb","tag-ozzie-albies","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116622982082058851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706462","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=706462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706462\/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=706462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}