The Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles turned a big page in their storied and mostly acrimonious history recently. When the Orioles changed ownership before the 2024 season from the Angelos family, the lawsuits and bickering have finally ended. The teams finally terminated their MASN relationship effective after this season, and the teams seem to be working together towards some joint marketing to the fans in the region including exhibition games to finish up the offseason for years to come. Just yesterday, they jointly announced a streaming service to watch games. Today, they will face each other on the field where both teams are under .500 and each want to win this series.
The Nationals will have three draft picks of the Washington Mystics WNBA team at the stadium today to throw out first pitches. Right now in the region, the Washington Capitals are taking center stage. Both Orioles and Nats players were at the game last night as the playoffs began in the NHL.
“It’s a long season. We got 90 percent of our games left.”
— manager Dave Martinez said, even though his math is a little off
The Nats have promoted RHP Andry Lara to the roster as the 27th player for Sunday’s doubleheader — and he didn’t pitch and then was returned after the games to Triple-A Rochester. He is ranked 16th on MLB Pipeline’s list for the Washington Nationals prospects.
You can see the recent bullpen usage here:
Here are your Nats’ WAR leaders with MacKenzie Gore followed by James Wood, Mitchell Parker, and Keibert Ruiz. On defense, Paul DeJong is your OAA leader, and Amed Rosario who barely plays is a -2.0 already. Unfortunately Luis Garcia Jr.‘s defensive struggles are back, and he is also a -2.0 OAA on defense. Here are your stats leaders on BBRef. There are certainly some surprises on there — good and not so good — but the gap is widening.
“We have something special in Lord. He goes out there. He wants the ball, and goes out there attacking.”
— Martinez said
The Nats starting pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.87 and 14th best in MLB. The reliever’s ERA sits at a 7.19 and is the worst in MLB.
Here is how the starters rank by ERA:
No. 5 Starter: Trevor Williams 5.95
No. 4 Starter: Michael Soroka 7.20
No. 3 Starter: Mitchell Parker 1.85
No. 2 Starter: Jake Irvin 3.68
No. 1 Starter: MacKenzie Gore 3.41
Baltimore Orioles vs. Washington Nationals
Stadium: Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.
1st Pitch: 6:45 pm EDT
TV: MASN
Radio: 106.7 The Fan radio and via the MLB app; In Spanish on DC 87.7 FM and La Pantera 100.7 FM/1220 AM. On Sirius/XM, tune to Channel 188 for the home broadcast and the road team is online only.
Line-up subject to change (without notice):
