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Washington Nationals<\/a> (41-41, fourth in the NL East) vs. Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (38-44, fourth in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Baltimore; Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Andrew Alvarez<\/a> (1-0, 3.34 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 37 strikeouts); Orioles: Trevor Rogers<\/a> (4-7, 5.30 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 54 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Orioles -139, Nationals +115; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals aim to break a three-game slide with a victory over the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

Baltimore has gone 22-19 at home and 38-44 overall. The Orioles have a 21-38 record in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Washington is 41-41 overall and 24-16 in road games. The Nationals are 32-18 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Pete Alonso<\/a> has 14 doubles, 18 home runs and 55 RBIs for the Orioles. Taylor Ward<\/a> is 11 for 45 with two doubles, two home runs and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

James Wood<\/a> has 19 doubles and 20 home runs for the Nationals. Nasim Nunez<\/a> is 15 for 30 with a double, two triples and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Orioles: 4-6, .229 batting average, 3.23 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 4-6, .243 batting average, 5.42 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Orioles: Dean Kremer<\/a>: 60-Day IL (quadricep), Cade Povich: 15-Day IL (elbow), Yaramil Hiraldo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Dylan Beavers: 10-Day IL (oblique), Jackson Holliday<\/a>: day-to-day (groin), Adley Rutschman<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot), Chris Bassitt<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl)<\/p>\n

Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), C.J. Abrams: day-to-day (side), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Kranick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), 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 (41-41, fourth in the NL East) vs. Baltimore Orioles (38-44, fourth in the AL East) Baltimore;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[1079,43881,47,5,82,913,75686,584,1514,496,565,581,12062,7145,19,9670,4,11193,415,74,5694,9009,4718,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-735930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-andrew-alvarez","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-dean-kremer","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-bautista","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-wood","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-mlb","tag-nasim-nunez","tag-nationals","tag-pete-alonso","tag-taylor-ward","tag-trevor-rogers","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116815677817735597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735930","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=735930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}