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Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (49-58, fifth in the AL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (54-53, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Shane Bieber (2-1, 4.70 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 22 strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (7-4, 3.58 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 127 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -142, Blue Jays +117; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Blue Jays take a 1-0 lead into the next game of the series against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 22-33 record at home and a 54-53 record overall. Nationals hitters have a collective .446 slugging percentage to lead MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 23-28 on the road and 49-58 overall. The Blue Jays are 17-11 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Luis Garcia<\/a> has 18 doubles, four triples and 21 home runs for the Nationals. C.J. Abrams is 19 for 41 with four doubles and seven home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement<\/a> has a .296 batting average to lead the Blue Jays, and has 26 doubles, a triple and eight home runs. George Springer<\/a> is 13 for 39 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .299 batting average, 4.81 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: 4-6, .229 batting average, 3.58 ERA, outscored by 18 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), 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 (49-58, fifth in the AL East) vs. Washington Nationals (54-53, 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":[6081,383,5,26653,6130,75686,311,496,4942,4619,387,12062,7145,6646,911,19,4,415,444,70,4718,414,71,4222,2077],"class_list":["post-763540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-addison-barger","tag-anthony-santander","tag-baseball","tag-drew-millas","tag-ernie-clement","tag-event_preview","tag-george-springer","tag-jake-irvin","tag-jesus-sanchez","tag-joe-mantiply","tag-jose-berrios","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-lenyn-sosa","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","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\/116996847941920209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763540","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=763540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763540\/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=763540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}