{"id":226654,"date":"2026-06-24T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226654\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:50:07","slug":"washington-nationals-host-the-philadelphia-phillies-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226654\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals host the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> (43-36, second in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (41-39, fourth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Aaron Nola<\/a> (3-4, 5.71 ERA, 1.48 WHIP, 77 strikeouts); Nationals: Miles Mikolas<\/a> (2-6, 5.47 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 43 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Phillies -137, Nationals +113; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Washington is 17-23 at home and 41-39 overall. Nationals hitters have a collective .424 slugging percentage to rank second in the NL.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has a 20-17 record on the road and a 43-36 record overall. The Phillies have a 31-7 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Phillies are ahead 3-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Daylen Lile<\/a> has 16 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 37 RBIs for the Nationals. Luis Garcia<\/a> is 9 for 32 with four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kyle Schwarber<\/a> leads the Phillies with 39 extra base hits (nine doubles, a triple and 29 home runs). Brandon Marsh<\/a> is 12 for 43 with two doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .271 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Phillies: 6-4, .287 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: C.J. Abrams: day-to-day (side), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Irvin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Max Kranick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Phillies: Kyle Schwarber: day-to-day (back), Adolis Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Brad Keller<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm)<\/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":"Philadelphia Phillies (43-36, second in the NL East) vs. Washington Nationals (41-39, fourth in the NL East) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51887,33460,34160,27338,74343,56878,76614,98353,98356,4607,98357,11199,98354,98352,69,71,70,1425,98355,29829],"class_list":["post-226654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-aaron-nola","tag-adolis-garcia","tag-brad-keller","tag-brandon-marsh","tag-daylen-lile","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-irvin","tag-josiah-gray","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-miles-mikolas","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-trevor-williams","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}