{"id":314507,"date":"2026-06-21T00:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314507\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:40:20","slug":"washington-nationals-vs-tampa-bay-rays-game-thread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314507\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals vs Tampa Bay Rays Game Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Nats dropped the first game of the Rays series in a fairly sleepy contest. In each of the last two games, the Nats ferocious offense has been quiet. They will look to bounce back and avoid a rare series loss. As we saw last night though, this Rays team is a tough nut to crack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With a lefty opener, Blake Butera is making some lineup changes. Curtis Mead and Andres Chaparro are both in the lineup at third and first base. James Wood will move to DH, meaning Daylen Lile, Jacob Young and Dylan Crews will be in the outfield. After being scratched due to illness yesterday, Cade Cavalli feels better and will toe the rubber this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Rays only have one personnel change. We will see Victor Mesa Jr. for the first time. He will replace Jonny DeLuca. Other than that it is the same group, though Cedric Mullins will be higher in the lineup. It will be a bullpen game for the Rays, with Ian Seymour starting things off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Nats have done a good job staying consistent and not having many large losing streaks. They will look to stay resilient today and get back in the win column. To do so, they will need to take advantage of their chances. Follow along in the comments down below and let\u2019s go Nats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nats dropped the first game of the Rays series in a fairly sleepy contest. In each of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136,114030],"class_list":["post-314507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-washington-nationals-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}