{"id":787037,"date":"2026-08-24T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/787037\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T09:57:19","slug":"nationals-play-the-rockies-in-first-of-4-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/787037\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals play the Rockies in first of 4-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies<\/a> (50-80, fifth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (61-71, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rockies: Ryan Feltner<\/a> (5-7, 5.97 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 64 strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (11-5, 3.22 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 162 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -188, Rockies +155; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Colorado Rockies on Monday to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 27-36 record in home games and a 61-71 record overall. Nationals hitters are batting a collective .248, which ranks seventh in the NL.<\/p>\n

Colorado is 50-80 overall and 23-42 in road games. The Rockies have a 34-64 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Jake McCarthy<\/a> has 26 doubles, seven triples and 13 home runs for the Rockies. Willi Castro<\/a> is 10 for 35 with two doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 2-8, .191 batting average, 3.62 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Rockies: 3-7, .217 batting average, 6.20 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: CJ Abrams: day-to-day (ankle), Connelly Early: 60-Day IL (elbow), James Wood: 10-Day IL (oblique), Drew Millas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), DJ Herz: 60-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

Rockies: Kyle Karros<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Hunter Goodman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Sullivan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Freeland<\/a>: day-to-day (neck), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 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":"Colorado Rockies (50-80, fifth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals (61-71, fourth in the NL East) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,75686,2092,3917,1022,39318,19,42377,4,168,1945,39325,56859,129],"class_list":["post-787037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-karros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-rockies","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-welinton-herrera","tag-willi-castro"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117149895487366382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787037","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=787037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787037\/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=787037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}