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Washington Nationals<\/a> (13-17, third in the NL East) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (10-19, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Wednesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Cade Cavalli<\/a> (0-1, 4.01 ERA, 1.66 WHIP, 28 strikeouts); Mets: David Peterson<\/a> (0-3, 5.06 ERA, 1.65 WHIP, 24 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -165, Nationals +139; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n

New York has a 10-19 record overall and a 6-10 record at home. The Mets have gone 6-1 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Washington is 13-17 overall and 10-7 in road games. The Nationals have a 3-5 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Francisco Alvarez<\/a> leads the Mets with four home runs while slugging .405. Francisco Lindor<\/a> is 12 for 38 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

C.J. Abrams has three doubles, seven home runs and 21 RBIs while hitting .267 for the Nationals. Daylen Lile<\/a> is 9 for 36 with two doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 3-7, .235 batting average, 3.98 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

Nationals: 4-6, .193 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Kodai Senga<\/a>: 15-Day IL (spinal lumbar ), Jared Young<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Francisco Lindor: 10-Day IL (calf), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Gerber: 15-Day IL (finger), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Nationals: Clayton Beeter: 15-Day IL (forearm), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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 (13-17, third in the NL East) vs. New York Mets (10-19, fourth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,45282,8336,113393,255655,7697,3689,8489,40618,246629,261195,213487,27641,1884,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,277744,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1291],"class_list":["post-760950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-david-peterson","tag-daylen-lile","tag-event_preview","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-jared-young","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-josiah-gray","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kodai-senga","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-trevor-williams","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116487126125723156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760950","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=760950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760950\/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=760950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}