Photo by Marlene Koenig/TalkNats
The Washington Nationals start a 4-game series against the Atlanta Braves. The Braves are in first place in the NL East and the Nats are behind them in second place. The Nats will try to continue what the team did yesterday, and hope that Jake Irvin can put up zeros in his start.
The Nats offense continues to score runs, and the team is in the Top-3 of many offensive categories. While home runs have not been as numerous as the streak they had been on, the team is still scoring runs.
The team brought up Julian Fernandez as an extra bullpen arm and sent Andrew Alvarez back to Triple-A Rochester. A move that was made just to get another fresh arm up. Here is a chart of usage on manager Blake Butera‘s bullpen:
The FanGraphs WAR chart is accumulating data. This will start to give us a clearer picture in six weeks when the sample sizes get larger. The OAA defense stat requires a minimum of 10 defensive plays. We will start adding more statistics as the sample sizes get larger.
Atlanta Braves vs. Washington Nationals
Stadium: Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.
1st Pitch: 6:45 PM EDT
TV: Nationals.TV
Radio: 106.7 The Fan radio and via the MLB app. On Sirius/XM, tune to Channel 176 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
