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Washington Nationals<\/a> (49-49, fourth in the NL East) vs. Athletics<\/a> (41-56, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

West Sacramento, California; Saturday, 10:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Zack Littell (7-6, 4.90 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 57 strikeouts); Athletics: J.T. Ginn (7-6, 3.67 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 93 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Athletics -131, Nationals +107; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals play the Athletics after Curtis Mead<\/a> had four hits on Friday in a 23-4 win over the Athletics.<\/p>\n

The Athletics have a 41-56 record overall and a 19-29 record in home games. The Athletics have a 15-9 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 29-18 record in road games and a 49-49 record overall. The Nationals are 36-16 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers<\/a> has 16 doubles and 22 home runs for the Athletics. Josh Kuroda-Grauer is 16 for 38 with four doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

James Wood<\/a> has 23 doubles, a triple and 28 home runs for the Nationals. Mead is 18 for 41 with five doubles, a triple, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 0-10, .201 batting average, 9.32 ERA, outscored by 66 runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 4-6, .293 batting average, 5.70 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

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

Nationals: Richard Lovelady<\/a>: 15-Day IL (tricep), Drew Millas<\/a>: 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), 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 (49-49, fourth in the NL East) vs. Athletics (41-56, fourth in the AL West) West Sacramento,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[537,5,6524,14905,26653,75686,496,565,12062,7145,1327,19,4,415,24906,3442,4718,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-754935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-curtis-mead","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-drew-millas","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-wood","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-richard-lovelady","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116940342741162537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754935","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=754935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}