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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (48-58, fifth in the AL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (54-52, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Monday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Max Scherzer<\/a> (0-0); Nationals: Andrew Alvarez<\/a> (2-3, 4.22 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 55 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -133, Blue Jays +109; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Washington is 54-52 overall and 22-32 in home games. The Nationals have gone 24-11 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Toronto has gone 22-28 on the road and 48-58 overall. The Blue Jays are 11-17 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The matchup Monday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: C.J. Abrams has 21 doubles, two triples, 27 home runs and 82 RBIs while hitting .297 for the Nationals. Jacob Young<\/a> is 11 for 35 with two doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement<\/a> has 25 doubles, a triple and eight home runs while hitting .297 for the Blue Jays. George Springer<\/a> is 12 for 40 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .296 batting average, 5.01 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 3-7, .228 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored by 27 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Connelly Early: 15-Day IL (elbow), Drew Millas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Brad Lord: 15-Day IL (side), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), PJ Poulin: 15-Day IL (flexor), Richard Lovelady: 60-Day IL (tricep), Jake Irvin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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

Blue Jays: Jonatan Clase: 10-Day IL (foot), Lenyn Sosa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Addison Barger<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Patrick Corbin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Yimi Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Scherzer: 15-Day IL (back), Jesus Sanchez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Joe Mantiply<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Jose Berrios<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cody Ponce: 60-Day IL (knee), Anthony Santander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bowden Francis: 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":"Toronto Blue Jays (48-58, fifth in the AL East) vs. Washington Nationals (54-52, third in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[6081,43881,383,5,26653,6130,75686,311,6287,496,4942,4619,387,12062,7145,6646,19,381,4,415,444,70,4718,414,71,4222,2077],"class_list":["post-762666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-addison-barger","tag-andrew-alvarez","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-drew-millas","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-george-springer","tag-jacob-young","tag-jake-irvin","tag-jesus-sanchez","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jose-berrios","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-yimi-garcia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116991162015796186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762666","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=762666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762666\/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=762666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}