Game 149 lineups: Nats vs. Dodgers

By Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

September 17, 2017, 12:06pm

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There may not be all that much riding on this weekend's series, but the Nationals certainly don't want to be swept by the Dodgers. That wouldn't be very good for morale, no matter the significance of these games on what will occur next month.

The good news: Stephen Strasburg is on the mound tonight, and nobody in baseball has pitched better than he has over the last month-plus. Strasburg carries a 34-inning scoreless streak into tonight's game, and all those zeroes haven't been fluky. The right-hander legitimately has dominated during this run, and tonight he'll be going up against a Dodgers lineup that in this series so far has only scored runs off Edwin Jackson and A.J. Cole, nobody else.

What the Nats really need, of course, is some offense after a couple of sluggish performances at the plate against Alex Wood and Rich Hill. Dusty Baker has all his healthy regulars in there tonight against Hyun-Jin Ryu, many of the same guys who beat the lefty back in June with four runs in seven innings.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS at WASHINGTON NATIONALS
Where: Nationals Park
Gametime: 8:08 p.m. EDT
TV: ESPN, MLB.tv
Radio: 106.7 FM, 1500 AM, XM 185/869, MLB.com
Weather: Partly cloudy, 75 degrees, wind 4 mph in from right field

NATIONALS (89-59)
SS Trea Turner
RF Jayson Werth
3B Anthony Rendon
2B Daniel Murphy
1B Ryan Zimmerman
LF Howie Kendrick
CF Michael A. Taylor
C Matt Wieters
RHP Stephen Strasburg

DODGERS (96-52)
CF Chris Taylor
SS Corey Seager
3B Justin Turner
1B Cody Bellinger
RF Yasiel Puig
LF Curtis Granderson
C Yasmani Grandal
2B Logan Forsythe
LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu