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Washington Nationals<\/a> (61-68, fourth in the NL East) vs. Miami Marlins<\/a> (64-64, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Miami; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Brad Lord<\/a> (5-2, 4.04 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 57 strikeouts); Marlins: Ryan Gusto<\/a> (0-3, 4.70 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 49 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Marlins -151, Nationals +126; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins begin a three-game series at home against the Washington Nationals on Friday.<\/p>\n

Miami is 64-64 overall and 38-25 at home. The Marlins have the fourth-ranked team ERA in the NL at 3.96.<\/p>\n

Washington is 34-32 in road games and 61-68 overall. The Nationals have hit 182 total home runs to lead the NL.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the seventh time these teams match up this season. The Marlins are up 5-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Otto Lopez<\/a> has 29 doubles, seven triples, nine home runs and 54 RBIs for the Marlins. Griffin Conine<\/a> is 10 for 30 with a double, four home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Marlins: 5-5, .249 batting average, 3.77 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 3-7, .237 batting average, 3.91 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Marlins: Kyle Stowers: 10-Day IL (hamstring), William Kempner<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Meyer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Nationals: CJ Abrams: day-to-day (ankle), 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 (61-68, fourth in the NL East) vs. Miami Marlins (64-64, third in the NL East) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,5,1902,26653,75686,547,12062,7145,19,1816,1714,778,58,4171,4,1753,7729,5100,71,40190],"class_list":["post-784458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-baseball","tag-brad-lord","tag-drew-millas","tag-event_preview","tag-griffin-conine","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marlins","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb","tag-otto-lopez","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-ryan-gusto","tag-washington-nationals","tag-william-kempner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117132979343144515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784458","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=784458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784458\/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=784458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}