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Atlanta Braves<\/a> (82-56, first in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (66-74, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: A.J. Smith-Shawver (0-0, 5.93 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (2-8, 5.62 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 82 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -175, Nationals +142; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals open a two-game series at home against the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Washington is 66-74 overall and 32-39 at home. The Nationals are 37-58 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 34-32 record in road games and an 82-56 record overall. The Braves have gone 57-20 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the 12th time this season. The Braves are up 8-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS:<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> has 32 doubles, 37 home runs and 80 RBIs for the Braves. Michael Harris II<\/a> is 14 for 38 with four doubles, three home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .240 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 7-3, .277 batting average, 2.73 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: C.J. Abrams: day-to-day (undisclosed), Cade Cavalli: day-to-day (leg), James Wood: 10-Day IL (oblique), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Millas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Connelly Early: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

Braves: Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (knee), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Atlanta Braves (82-56, first in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (66-74, 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":[46,5,26653,75686,496,10367,12062,7145,19,541,661,4,415,80,659,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-793815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-drew-millas","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-robert-suarez","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117194887255465294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793815","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=793815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793815\/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=793815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}