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Miami Marlins<\/a> (68-66, third in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (63-73, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Eury Perez<\/a> (7-9, 3.17 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 137 strikeouts); Nationals: Jackson Kent<\/a> (0-2, 8.03 ERA, 2.11 WHIP, 14 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Marlins -158, Nationals +128; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Miami Marlins on Friday to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n

Washington is 63-73 overall and 29-38 at home. The Nationals have the highest team slugging percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .431.<\/p>\n

Miami has a 26-39 record in road games and a 68-66 record overall. The Marlins are 32-50 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Friday for the 10th time this season. The Marlins are up 8-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jacob Young<\/a> has 19 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs and 43 RBIs for the Nationals. Daylen Lile<\/a> is 13 for 41 with two doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Otto Lopez<\/a> leads the Marlins with a .308 batting average, and has 30 doubles, seven triples, nine home runs, 30 walks and 59 RBIs. Javier Sanoja<\/a> is 14 for 39 with two home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 3-7, .218 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 5-5, .239 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Millas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Connelly Early: 60-Day IL (elbow), James Wood: 10-Day IL (oblique), DJ Herz: 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

Marlins: Pete Fairbanks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (nerve), Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), William Kempner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Marlins (68-66, third in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (63-73, 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":[2395],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,5,15065,26653,1072,75686,75888,6287,4289,7145,19,1816,1714,778,58,4171,4,1753,848,7729,71,40190],"class_list":["post-790578","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-daylen-lile","tag-drew-millas","tag-eury-perez","tag-event_preview","tag-jackson-kent","tag-jacob-young","tag-javier-sanoja","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-pete-fairbanks","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-washington-nationals","tag-william-kempner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117172875030276494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790578","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=790578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790578\/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=790578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}