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Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (83-68, second in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (71-81, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Zack Wheeler<\/a> (12-5, 3.14 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 172 strikeouts); Nationals: Jared Simpson<\/a> (1-0, 6.75 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Phillies -196, Nationals +158; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals, on a four-game home winning streak, host the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 71-81 record overall and a 37-40 record in home games. The Nationals have the second-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .427.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has an 83-68 record overall and a 42-34 record on the road. The Phillies have the 10th-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .400.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the 13th time these teams meet this season. The Phillies are ahead 8-4 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: C.J. Abrams has 29 doubles, three triples and 30 home runs for the Nationals. Dylan Crews<\/a> is 10 for 37 with five doubles, a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Arraez<\/a> has a .315 batting average to lead the Phillies, and has 32 doubles, seven triples and six home runs. Trea Turner<\/a> is 11 for 41 with two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 4-6, .247 batting average, 5.19 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

Phillies: 4-6, .238 batting average, 4.24 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: C.J. Abrams: day-to-day (neck), Matt Waldron<\/a>: 60-Day IL (chest), 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

Phillies: Jesus Luzardo<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Caleb Kilian: 15-Day IL (oblique), Felix Reyes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Brad Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Johan Rojas: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adolis Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/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":"Philadelphia Phillies (83-68, second in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (71-81, 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":[3418,5,7798,26653,566,75686,29882,97440,6,12062,7145,85,19,2282,4,415,12061,25,1713,414,71,4222,117],"class_list":["post-806324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-baseball","tag-brad-keller","tag-drew-millas","tag-dylan-crews","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-reyes","tag-jared-simpson","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-luis-arraez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-waldron","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-orlando-ribalta","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-trea-turner","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-zack-wheeler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117279810113462249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806324","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=806324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806324\/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=806324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}