{"id":811286,"date":"2026-09-22T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/811286\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:42:15","slug":"tigers-try-to-keep-home-win-streak-going-host-the-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/811286\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers try to keep home win streak going, host the Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Nationals<\/a> (73-84, fourth in the NL East) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (74-83, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jackson Kent<\/a> (1-4, 6.40 ERA, 1.76 WHIP, 27 strikeouts); Tigers: Drew Anderson<\/a> (5-6, 3.62 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 109 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Tigers -160, Nationals +132; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers host the Washington Nationals trying to continue a five-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

Detroit has a 74-83 record overall and a 40-36 record at home. The Tigers have a 55-14 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 73-84 record overall and a 36-43 record in road games. The Nationals have gone 59-21 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Riley Greene<\/a> has a .284 batting average to lead the Tigers, and has 31 doubles, two triples and 21 home runs. Hao-Yu Lee<\/a> is 14 for 42 with two home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

C.J. Abrams has 31 home runs, 54 walks and 99 RBIs while hitting .260 for the Nationals. Jorbit Vivas<\/a> is 9 for 30 with three doubles and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 6-4, .294 batting average, 3.66 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 6-4, .232 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Colt Keith<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Troy Melton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), Parker Meadows: 60-Day IL (head\/arm), Kerry Carpenter<\/a>: 10-Day IL (heel), Burch Smith: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kyle Finnegan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Jack Flaherty<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Wenceel Perez: 60-Day IL (face), Matt Vierling: 60-Day IL (thigh), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Verlander<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Will Vest: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trey Sweeney: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Nationals: Matt Waldron<\/a>: 60-Day IL (chest), Connelly Early: 60-Day IL (elbow), Orlando Ribalta<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals (73-84, fourth in the NL East) vs. Detroit Tigers (74-83, third in the AL Central) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[29375,5,1964,53,63086,26653,75686,43538,84,75888,1825,388,7145,391,102,19,2282,4,415,12061,768,624,33608,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-811286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-bailey-horn","tag-baseball","tag-colt-keith","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-drew-anderson","tag-drew-millas","tag-event_preview","tag-hao-yu-lee","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jackson-kent","tag-jorbit-vivas","tag-justin-verlander","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-kyle-finnegan","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-waldron","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-orlando-ribalta","tag-reese-olson","tag-riley-greene","tag-troy-melton","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117313807518883364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811286","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=811286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811286\/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=811286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}