{"id":237802,"date":"2026-05-20T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237802\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:03:12","slug":"washington-nationals-host-the-new-york-mets-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237802\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals host the New York Mets Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Mets<\/a> (21-27, fifth in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (24-25, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Wednesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Zach Thornton<\/a> (0-0); Nationals: Zack Littell (2-4, 6.10 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 20 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -126, Nationals +105; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals face the New York Mets on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 9-15 record at home and a 24-25 record overall. The Nationals have hit 59 total home runs to rank eighth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

New York is 21-27 overall and 10-14 on the road. The Mets have a 14-7 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams play Wednesday for the sixth time this season. The Nationals lead the season series 3-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: C.J. Abrams leads the Nationals with a .295 batting average, and has 11 doubles, a triple, nine home runs, 21 walks and 39 RBIs. Daylen Lile<\/a> is 14 for 43 with four home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Carson Benge<\/a> has seven doubles and three home runs for the Mets. Juan Soto<\/a> is 12 for 38 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .259 batting average, 6.33 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 6-4, .252 batting average, 3.42 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Jacob Young: day-to-day (rib), Clayton Beeter: 15-Day IL (forearm), Cole Henry: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Max Kranick<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Mets: Clay Holmes: 60-Day IL (fibula), A.J. Minter: 60-Day IL (lat), Luis Robert<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Francisco Alvarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Ronny Mauricio<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), 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), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Mets (21-27, fifth in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (24-25, third in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6595,84358,54398,61278,72874,38995,64687,20390,59747,84360,35579,48578,996,92981,9,11,320,10,86016,84359,35514,91674],"class_list":["post-237802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-carson-benge","tag-daylen-lile","tag-event_preview","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-jared-young","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-josiah-gray","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kodai-senga","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-ronny-mauricio","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals","tag-zach-thornton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}