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The Washington Nationals have their first series of this season with the New York Mets. A month ago, you might have expected the Mets to be in second place with the Nats in last place. Today, it is the reverse of that. The Mets are having issues. Unfortunately for the Washington Nationals, they have arguably their worst two pitchers are going tonight and in the series finale on Thursday with Zack Littell and Miles Mikolas respectively. Can either throw a much-needed gem?
This will be another cool/cold weather game tonight. It has been some crazy Spring weather in the east. By now, the team should be used to it after starting their season in Chicago, and just playing this past weekend again in Chicago.
With a day-off yesterday, the entire bullpen got a much-needed day-off after 17 consecutives days with games. 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 a few more weeks when the sample sizes get larger. The OAA defense stat is now giving us a picture of what the Nats have — and don’t have. We will start adding more statistics as the sample sizes get larger.
Washington Nationals vs. New York Mets
Stadium: CitiField, Queens, New York
1st Pitch: 7:10 PM EDT
TV: Nationals.TV
Radio: 106.7 The Fan radio and via the MLB app. On Sirius/XM, tune to Channel 181 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
