{"id":791376,"date":"2026-08-29T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791376\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:45:22","slug":"marlins-play-the-nationals-looking-to-break-road-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791376\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins play the Nationals looking to break road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Marlins<\/a> (68-67, third in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (64-73, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Sandy Alcantara<\/a> (13-8, 3.38 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 137 strikeouts); Nationals: Cade Cavalli (12-5, 3.21 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 169 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -111, Marlins -107; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins visit the Washington Nationals looking to end a four-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 64-73 record overall and a 30-38 record at home. The Nationals have a 28-16 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Miami is 26-40 in road games and 68-67 overall. Marlins hitters are batting a collective .249, which ranks fifth in the NL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the 11th time these teams match up this season. The Marlins hold an 8-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Otto Lopez<\/a> has 30 doubles, seven triples and nine home runs while hitting .307 for the Marlins. Heriberto Hernandez<\/a> is 10 for 37 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 4-6, .220 batting average, 3.87 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 4-6, .235 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored by eight 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 (68-67, third in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (64-73, 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":[2398],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,5,75686,17906,19,1714,58,4,415,1753,848,7729,3480,414,71,4222,40190],"class_list":["post-791376","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-event_preview","tag-heriberto-hernandez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-otto-lopez","tag-pete-fairbanks","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-sandy-alcantara","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-william-kempner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117178159785620584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791376","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=791376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791376\/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=791376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}