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Washington Nationals<\/a> (60-67, fourth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (62-64, second in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Wednesday, 8:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Cade Cavalli<\/a> (10-5, 3.36 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 151 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (4-9, 4.50 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 106 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -141, Nationals +117; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals, on a four-game losing streak, play the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 33-27 record at home and a 62-64 record overall. The Rangers have hit 140 total home runs to rank ninth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Washington is 33-31 on the road and 60-67 overall. The Nationals have gone 34-53 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Wednesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> has 18 doubles and 21 home runs for the Rangers. Corey Seager<\/a> is 9 for 36 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

CJ Abrams<\/a> leads the Nationals with a .280 batting average, and has 24 doubles, three triples, 29 home runs, 46 walks and 91 RBIs. Jacob Young<\/a> is 12 for 33 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6, .221 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 4-6, .255 batting average, 4.18 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Josh Jung: 10-Day IL (calf), Kyle Higashioka<\/a>: 10-Day IL (flexor tendon), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Michael Helman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hand), Jacob deGrom: day-to-day (tricep), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Eovaldi: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jack Leiter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Jose Corniell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jalen Beeks: 60-Day IL (back)<\/p>\n

Nationals: James Wood: 10-Day IL (oblique), Drew Millas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connelly Early: 15-Day IL (elbow), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), PJ Poulin: 60-Day IL (flexor), Richard Lovelady: 60-Day IL (tricep), 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 (60-67, fourth in the NL East) vs. Texas Rangers (62-64, second in the AL West) Arlington,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,3573,63677,497,384,26653,75686,721,6287,400,49931,12062,7145,360,9390,19,10942,4,415,13188,69,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-782728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cj-abrams","tag-corey-seager","tag-drew-millas","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jacob-young","tag-jake-burger","tag-jose-corniell","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-helman","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas-rangers","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117121536702988820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782728","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=782728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}