The Washington Nationals begin a weekend series in Tampa as the Nats look to get closer to being a lock as a contender.
By the way, the Nats longest winning streak of the season was set at 4-games. A win tonight would get the Nats back to that.
On offense, the Nats are at the top of MLB for the most runs scored this season at 405 runs and that is an impressive 5.43 runs per game. With the Nats pitching giving up 4.65 earned runs per game, the difference is really those pesky unearned runs due to the errors. Overall, the Nats have a +15 run differential on the season. Since April 19th, the Nats are the 17th best in ERA in MLB in that span at 4.17.
“They understand that those small things … we have to do that really well if we want to be playing playoff baseball.”
This evening, Cade Cavalli gets the start in the opening day of this series.
Washington Nationalsvs. Tampa Bay Rays
Stadium: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 176 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
