{"id":632017,"date":"2026-05-09T01:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632017\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:58:19","slug":"washington-nationals-battle-miami-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632017\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals battle Miami Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals (18-20, 8 GB, NL East) face the Miami Marlins (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<p>WAS: Foster Griffin (3-1, 2.27 ERA, 1.08 WHIP)<br \/>\nMIA: Robby Snelling: first start in 2026<\/p>\n<p>Game 2: Saturday, 4:10 p.m. (MLB.TV)<\/p>\n<p>WAS: Zack Littell (1-4, 7.24 ERA, 1.61 WHIP)<br \/>\nMIA: Janson Junk (2-3, 2.82 ERA, 1.04 WHIP)<\/p>\n<p>Game 3: Sunday, 12:10 p.m. (MLB.TV)<\/p>\n<p>WAS: Cade Cavalli (1-2, 4.15 ERA, 1.70 WHIP)<br \/>\nMIA: Sandy Alcantara (3-2, 4.01 ERA, 1.28 WHIP)<\/p>\n<p>Bats to watch<\/p>\n<p>Washington Nationals<\/p>\n<p>SS CJ Abrams: 9 HRs, 33 RBIs, .290 BA\/.933 OPS, 1.8 WAR<br \/>\nRF James Wood: 10 HRs, 27 RBIs, .243 BA\/.908 OPS, 1.1 WAR<br \/>\nRF Joey Wiemer: 3 HRs, 8 RBIs, .310 BA\/.946 OPS, 0.8 WAR<\/p>\n<p>Miami Marlins<\/p>\n<p>SS Otto Lopez: 4 HRs, 16 RBIs, .340 BA\/.882 OPS, 1.8 WAR<br \/>\nC Liam Hicks: 9 HRs, 34 RBIs, .319 BA\/.956 OPS, 1.7 WAR<br \/>\n2B Xavier Edwards: 2 HRs, 12 RBIs, .328 BA\/.870 OPS, 1.5 WAR<\/p>\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":2,"featured_media":632018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-632017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}