Seattle Mariners\u00a0(37-34, first in the AL West) vs.\u00a0Washington Nationals\u00a0(35-35, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners:\u00a0Luis Castillo\u00a0(2-5, 5.16 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Nationals:\u00a0Cade Cavalli\u00a0(3-4, 3.88 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 76 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Nationals -111, Mariners -108; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals are looking to break their four-game home skid with a win against the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington is 35-35 overall and 12-21 at home. Nationals hitters have a collective .321 on-base percentage, the eighth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seattle has a 37-34 record overall and an 18-18 record in road games. The Mariners have hit 93 total home runs to rank second in the AL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS:\u00a0James Wood\u00a0leads the Nationals with 34 extra base hits (15 doubles and 19 home runs).\u00a0Luis Garcia\u00a0is 7 for 33 with two doubles, a triple, three home runs and 11 RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Randy Arozarena\u00a0has 18 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 33 RBI for the Mariners.\u00a0Colt Emerson\u00a0is 8 for 34 with two doubles, four home runs and six RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 4-6, .233 batting average, 5.32 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mariners: 5-5, .265 batting average, 4.44 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Nationals: Jake Irvin: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Trevor Williams: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Ken Waldichuk: 60-Day IL (forearm),\u00a0Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Max Kranick: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mariners: Randy Arozarena: day-to-day (leg),\u00a0Cal Raleigh: 10-Day IL (side),\u00a0Carlos Vargas: 60-Day IL (lat),\u00a0Will Wilson: 10-Day IL (thumb), Matt Brash: 15-Day IL (lat),\u00a0Brendan Donovan: 10-Day IL (groin), Cooper Criswell: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0J.P. Crawford: 10-Day IL (hand),\u00a0Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Seattle Mariners\u00a0(37-34, first in the AL West) vs.\u00a0Washington Nationals\u00a0(35-35, fourth in the NL East) Washington; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners:\u00a0Luis Castillo\u00a0(2-5, 5.16 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Nationals:\u00a0Cade Cavalli\u00a0(3-4, 3.88 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 76 strikeouts) LINE: Nationals -111, Mariners -108; over\/under is 9 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals are looking to break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416155,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416154\/revisions\/416155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}