{"id":707404,"date":"2026-05-24T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/707404\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:30:30","slug":"braves-and-nationals-play-in-series-rubber-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/707404\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves and Nationals play in series rubber match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Nationals<\/a> (26-27, third in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (36-17, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Foster Griffin<\/a> (5-2, 4.02 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (2-2, 2.85 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 38 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -164, Nationals +138; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

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

Atlanta has a 36-17 record overall and a 17-9 record at home. Braves pitchers have a collective 3.08 ERA, which leads MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Washington has gone 16-11 in road games and 26-27 overall. The Nationals have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the NL at .243.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the seventh time these teams meet this season. The Braves hold a 4-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

C.J. Abrams has 11 home runs, 23 walks and 45 RBIs while hitting .293 for the Nationals. James Wood<\/a> is 13 for 39 with three doubles, a home run and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 6-4, .218 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 5-5, .237 batting average, 5.31 ERA, outscored by nine 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: Jake Irvin: day-to-day (undisclosed), 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 (26-27, third in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (36-17, 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":[2398],"tags":[46,5,1563,75686,55398,38015,565,10367,12062,7145,9978,19,370,9670,4,415,656,659,4718,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-707404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-foster-griffin","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-james-wood","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-max-kranick","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116629092644673867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707404","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=707404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707404\/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=707404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}