{"id":785343,"date":"2026-08-22T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/785343\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:06:15","slug":"marlins-meet-the-nationals-with-1-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/785343\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins meet the Nationals with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Nationals<\/a> (61-69, fourth in the NL East) vs. Miami Marlins<\/a> (65-64, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Miami; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (2-7, 5.80 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 72 strikeouts); Marlins: Eury Perez<\/a> (6-9, 3.23 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 133 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Marlins -186, Nationals +154; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins play the Washington Nationals with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Miami has a 39-25 record in home games and a 65-64 record overall. The Marlins have the ninth-best team ERA in MLB<\/a> play at 3.95.<\/p>\n

Washington is 34-33 on the road and 61-69 overall. The Nationals have the seventh-best team on-base percentage in MLB play at .325.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the eighth time these teams meet this season. The Marlins are ahead 6-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Otto Lopez<\/a> has a .307 batting average to lead the Marlins, and has 29 doubles, seven triples and nine home runs. Javier Sanoja<\/a> is 11 for 31 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

CJ Abrams<\/a> leads the Nationals with a .279 batting average, and has 25 doubles, three triples, 29 home runs, 46 walks and 91 RBIs. Keibert Ruiz<\/a> is 13 for 34 with a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Marlins: 5-5, .231 batting average, 3.66 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Nationals: 2-8, .226 batting average, 4.17 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Marlins: William Kempner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Stowers: 10-Day IL (hamstring), 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 (61-69, fourth in the NL East) vs. Miami Marlins (65-64, 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":[2398],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,5,497,26653,1072,75686,496,4289,12062,2101,7145,19,1714,58,4,415,1753,7729,414,71,4222,40190],"class_list":["post-785343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-baseball","tag-cj-abrams","tag-drew-millas","tag-eury-perez","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-javier-sanoja","tag-josiah-gray","tag-keibert-ruiz","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-otto-lopez","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-william-kempner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117138606242657820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785343","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=785343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785343\/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=785343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}