{"id":783099,"date":"2026-05-09T00:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783099\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:36:36","slug":"series-preview-washington-nationals-battle-miami-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783099\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Preview: Washington Nationals battle Miami Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Washington Nationals<\/strong> (18-20, 8 GB, NL East) face the <strong>Miami Marlins<\/strong> (17-21, 9 GB, NL East) in a three-game series that begins on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Friday, 7:10 p.m. (MLB.TV)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WAS<\/strong>: Foster Griffin (3-1, 2.27 ERA, 1.08 WHIP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIA<\/strong>: Robby Snelling: first start in 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Game 2: Saturday, 4:10 p.m. (MLB.TV)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WAS<\/strong>: Zack Littell (1-4, 7.24 ERA, 1.61 WHIP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIA<\/strong>: Janson Junk (2-3, 2.82 ERA, 1.04 WHIP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Game 3: Sunday, 12:10 p.m. (MLB.TV)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WAS<\/strong>: Cade Cavalli (1-2, 4.15 ERA, 1.70 WHIP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIA<\/strong>: Sandy Alcantara (3-2, 4.01 ERA, 1.28 WHIP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bats to watch<\/p>\n<p>Washington Nationals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SS CJ Abrams: <\/strong>9 HRs, 33 RBIs, .290 BA\/.933 OPS, 1.8 WAR<\/li>\n<li><strong>RF James Wood: <\/strong>10 HRs, 27 RBIs, .243 BA\/.908 OPS, 1.1 WAR<\/li>\n<li><strong>RF Joey Wiemer: <\/strong>3 HRs, 8 RBIs, .310 BA\/.946 OPS, 0.8 WAR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miami Marlins<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SS Otto Lopez: <\/strong>4 HRs, 16 RBIs, .340 BA\/.882 OPS, 1.8 WAR<\/li>\n<li><strong>C Liam Hicks: <\/strong>9 HRs, 34 RBIs, .319 BA\/.956 OPS, 1.7 WAR<\/li>\n<li><strong>2B Xavier Edwards: <\/strong>2 HRs, 12 RBIs, .328 BA\/.870 OPS, 1.5 WAR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Nationals (18-20, 8 GB, NL East) face the Miami Marlins (17-21, 9 GB, NL East) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-783099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116541822649057663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783099","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=783099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}