{"id":322741,"date":"2026-08-16T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322741\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:00:41","slug":"washington-nationals-vs-new-york-mets-game-thread-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322741\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals vs New York Mets Game Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Divisional matchups have not gone well for the Nats this season. They are now 11-26 against NL East teams. After dropping the first two games to the Mets, they will look to improve that dismal record. After a promising series against the Reds, the bullpen has been a real problem again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With a righty on the mound, Blake Butera is making a few lineup changes. Jorbit Vivas is in for Nasim Nunez at second base. Abimelec Ortiz will be at first base, but Andres Chaparro will stay in the lineup at DH. Keibert Ruiz will do the catching in this one. Jake Irvin looks to bounce back from a rough start against the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mets are only making a couple changes. Luis Robert is back in the lineup, but playing left field, which is new for him. Brett Baty will slide from left to second base, with Marcus Semien getting a day off. Luis Torrens will be doing the catching. Christian Scott is on the bump for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This has been a really disappointing series for the Nats but they have a chance to salvage a game today. They will need more consistent play at the plate and on the mound to do that though. Follow along in the comments down below and let\u2019s go Nats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Divisional matchups have not gone well for the Nats this season. They are now 11-26 against NL East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,111844],"class_list":["post-322741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-washington-nationals-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322741","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=322741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}