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Seattle Mariners<\/a> (37-35, first in the AL West) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (36-35, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: Emerson Hancock<\/a> (5-2, 2.74 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Nationals: Miles Mikolas<\/a> (1-5, 5.90 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 38 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mariners -148, Nationals +124; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals and Seattle Mariners play on Sunday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 36-35 record overall and a 13-21 record at home. The Nationals have gone 13-7 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Seattle is 37-35 overall and 18-19 in road games. The Mariners are 21-5 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> has 15 doubles, 19 home runs and 44 RBIs for the Nationals. Luis Garcia<\/a> is 8 for 33 with two doubles, a triple, four home runs and 13 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luke Raley<\/a> ranks fourth on the Mariners with 21 extra base hits (six doubles, a triple and 14 home runs). Colt Emerson<\/a> is 8 for 35 with two doubles, four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .240 batting average, 4.91 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

Mariners: 4-6, .257 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Kranick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Mariners: Randy Arozarena<\/a>: day-to-day (leg), Cal Raleigh: 10-Day IL (side), Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Will Wilson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Matt Brash<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Cooper Criswell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), J.P. Crawford: 10-Day IL (hand), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/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":"Seattle Mariners (37-35, first in the AL West) vs. Washington Nationals (36-35, 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":[2392],"tags":[5,4492,4990,22897,10947,764,75686,496,565,12062,7145,911,1505,19,620,2053,9670,123,4,1456,619,65,3235,4718,71,16021],"class_list":["post-725629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-carlos-vargas","tag-colt-emerson","tag-cooper-criswell","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-wood","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-luke-raley","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mariners","tag-matt-brash","tag-max-kranick","tag-miles-mikolas","tag-mlb","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals","tag-will-wilson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116747942195983937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725629","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=725629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725629\/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=725629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}