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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (56-92, fifth in the AL West) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (69-81, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> (4-7, 6.28 ERA, 1.57 WHIP, 75 strikeouts); Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a> (2-9, 5.52 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 90 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -122, Angels -101; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals will try to sweep a three-game series with a victory against the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 69-81 record overall and a 35-40 record in home games. The Nationals rank second in the NL with 198 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 56-92 record overall and a 26-48 record on the road. The Angels are 22-10 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams play Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Daylen Lile<\/a> has 27 doubles, seven triples and 20 home runs for the Nationals. Keibert Ruiz<\/a> is 11 for 28 with three doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Zach Neto<\/a> has 25 home runs, 55 walks and 72 RBIs while hitting .240 for the Angels. Wade Meckler<\/a> is 11 for 32 with three doubles and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 3-7, .224 batting average, 5.93 ERA, outscored by 17 runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 3-7, .227 batting average, 3.51 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Matt Waldron<\/a>: 60-Day IL (chest), Harry Ford: day-to-day (hand), Connelly Early: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow), Orlando Ribalta<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Millas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), PJ Poulin: 60-Day IL (flexor), Mitchell Parker: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Angels: Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), Nolan Schanuel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Sam Bachman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Gustavo Campero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), George Klassen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Jack Kochanowicz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/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":"Los Angeles Angels (56-92, fifth in the AL West) vs. Washington Nationals (69-81, fifth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[9394,5,15065,26653,75686,32138,582,1337,758,496,12062,2101,7145,56,19,2282,4,415,4953,12061,9393,3510,51590,414,71,4222,2052],"class_list":["post-803860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-daylen-lile","tag-drew-millas","tag-event_preview","tag-george-klassen","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-jake-irvin","tag-josiah-gray","tag-keibert-ruiz","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-waldron","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-orlando-ribalta","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-sam-bachman","tag-wade-meckler","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-zach-neto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117263094490044861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803860","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=803860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803860\/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=803860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}