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Washington Nationals<\/a> (48-49, fourth in the NL East) vs. Athletics<\/a> (41-55, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Cade Cavalli<\/a> (5-4, 3.83 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 110 strikeouts); Athletics: Gage Jump (3-4, 3.51 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 48 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -112, Nationals -110; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics aim to stop a nine-game slide when they play the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 41-55 record overall and a 19-28 record at home. Athletics hitters have a collective .400 slugging percentage to rank seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 28-18 record in road games and a 48-49 record overall. The Nationals have the top team slugging percentage in the majors at .435.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers<\/a> has 16 doubles, 21 home runs and 46 RBIs for the Athletics. Jonah Heim<\/a> is 8 for 37 with two home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Garcia<\/a> leads the Nationals with a .284 batting average, and has 16 doubles, three triples, 20 home runs, 15 walks and 68 RBIs. James Wood<\/a> is 15 for 34 with seven home runs and 12 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 1-9, .210 batting average, 7.07 ERA, outscored by 41 runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 4-6, .279 batting average, 5.60 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Athletics: Nick Kurtz: 10-Day IL (thumb), Zack Gelof: 10-Day IL (knee), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brent Rooker: 10-Day IL (knee), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Nationals: Drew Millas: 10-Day IL (finger), Jake Irvin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brad Lord: 15-Day IL (side), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mitchell Parker: 60-Day IL (elbow), Richard Lovelady: 15-Day IL (tricep), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/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 (48-49, fourth in the NL East) vs. Athletics (41-55, fourth in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[537,5,3573,14905,75686,496,565,7530,12062,7145,911,1327,19,4,415,3442,4718,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-754055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-wood","tag-jonah-heim","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116934645056903122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754055","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=754055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754055\/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=754055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}