CINCINNATI \u2013 We\u2019ve made it to the end of the series and the end of the road trip, and today\u2019s finale feels like it carries some significance for the Nationals. A win today would secure a weekend series win over the Reds and a 3-3 trip overall against two opponents who are over .500 and have postseason visions. All things considered, that would be just fine for the Nats.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve got their ace on the mound, with MacKenzie Gore looking for his sixth straight start of at least six innings. All but one of those have been a quality start \u2013 he gave up four runs in six innings to the Marlins \u2013 but he\u2019s surrendered at least two runs in each of them. The point: Gore has been good, not necessarily great, so far this year. He does, of course, enter the day as the league leader in strikeouts, and he\u2019ll have an opportunity to add to his lead in this one.<\/p>\n
The Nationals face veteran right-hander Nick Martinez, who after several seasons as a reliever is now a full-time starter. He was the owner of a 6.00 ERA a couple weeks ago, but he\u2019s been better since and in his last start held the Cardinals to one run over six innings to earn his first win.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON NATIONALS at CINCINNATI REDS
Where: Great American Ball Park
Gametime: 4:10 p.m. EDT
TV: MASN2, MLB.tv
Radio: 106.7 FM, 87.7 FM (Spanish), MLB.com
Weather: Slight chance of rain, 57 degrees, wind 6 mph right field to left field<\/p>\n
NATIONALS
SS CJ Abrams
3B Amed Rosario
DH James Wood
1B Nathaniel Lowe
C Keibert Ruiz
2B Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.\u00a0
LF Alex Call
RF Dylan Crews
CF Jacob Young<\/p>\n
LHP MacKenzie Gore<\/p>\n
REDS
2B Matt McLain
RF Santiago Espinal
SS Elly De La Cruz
3B Noelvi Marte
1B Spencer Steer
DH Tyler Stephenson
LF Gavin Lux
C Jose Trevino
CF Blake Dunn<\/p>\n
RHP Nick Martinez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2013 We\u2019ve made it to the end of the series and the end of the road trip,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,50,1360,771,908,907,4,415,568,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-9445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cincinnati-reds","10":"tag-lineups","11":"tag-mackenzie-gore","12":"tag-mark-zuckerman","13":"tag-masn","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nationals","16":"tag-nationals-featured","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-nationals","19":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114469735287874853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445","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=9445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}