{"id":687478,"date":"2026-03-28T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:32:11","slug":"washington-nationals-and-chicago-cubs-play-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687478\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals and Chicago Cubs play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/washington-nationals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> (1-0) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-cubs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> (0-1)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Chicago; Saturday, 2:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/miles-mikolas-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Mikolas<\/a> (0-0); Cubs: Cade Horton (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cubs -222, Nationals +183; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals meet the Chicago Cubs with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Chicago had a 92-70 record overall and a 50-31 record at home last season. The Cubs averaged 8.5 hits per game last season while batting a collective .249 and slugging .430.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Washington went 66-96 overall and 34-47 in road games last season. The Nationals averaged 8.1 hits per game last season and totaled 161 home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Cubs: Porter Hodge: 15-Day IL (elbow), Seiya Suzuki: 10-Day IL (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/justin-steele-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jordan-wicks-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Wicks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/shelby-miller-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Nationals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/trevor-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/josiah-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Paxton Schultz: 15-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals (1-0) vs. Chicago Cubs (0-1) Chicago; Saturday, 2:20 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Miles Mikolas (0-0);&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1271,255655,5386,1818,129663,246629,60047,1884,21718,171660,277744,1291],"class_list":["post-687478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-event_preview","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-jordan-wicks","tag-josiah-gray","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miles-mikolas","tag-shelby-miller","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116305877176161666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}