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Colorado Rockies<\/a> (51-81, fifth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (62-72, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rockies: Tanner Gordon<\/a> (0-4, 5.75 ERA, 1.49 WHIP, 64 strikeouts); Nationals: Matt Waldron (1-2, 7.54 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -127, Rockies +107; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 28-37 record at home and a 62-72 record overall. The Nationals have the top team slugging percentage in the NL at .430.<\/p>\n

Colorado has a 51-81 record overall and a 24-43 record in road games. The Rockies have the seventh-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .321.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the sixth time these teams match up this season. The Nationals have a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: CJ Abrams<\/a> has a .276 batting average to lead the Nationals, and has 26 doubles, three triples and 29 home runs. Keibert Ruiz<\/a> is 12 for 32 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Hunter Goodman<\/a> has 16 doubles, a triple and 35 home runs for the Rockies. Willi Castro<\/a> is 10 for 36 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 2-8, .199 batting average, 3.79 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Rockies: 2-8, .217 batting average, 6.88 ERA, outscored by 31 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Drew Millas: 10-Day IL (finger), Connelly Early: 60-Day IL (elbow), James Wood: 10-Day IL (oblique), 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 Freeland<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Kyle Karros<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Sean Sullivan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (51-81, fifth in the NL West) vs. Washington Nationals (62-72, 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":[5,497,167,52,4316,75686,2092,12062,2101,7145,1022,39318,19,42377,4,168,39325,7169,71,56859,129],"class_list":["post-788721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-cj-abrams","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-josiah-gray","tag-keibert-ruiz","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-karros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-rockies","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-tanner-gordon","tag-washington-nationals","tag-welinton-herrera","tag-willi-castro"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117160807218135288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788721","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=788721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788721\/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=788721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}