SEATTLE – The Nationals have spent an inordinate amount of time on the West Coast this season. Today, they play their 25th road game against West division opponents. Compare that with only six road games against Central teams and only nine road games against East teams. They’ve made four separate trips to California in three months.
The good news: Today is the last time the Nats will play west of St. Louis this season. And they would love to head back east with another win, not to mention a 4-2 record in San Diego and Seattle before departing for Philadelphia.
Davey Martinez’s lineup for the finale against the Mariners does not include CJ Abrams, who was hit by a pitch on the right elbow Tuesday night and had to depart. It does not include Joey Meneses, who gets a rare day off. It does include both Keibert Ruiz (who is DHing) and Riley Adams (who is catching).
Patrick Corbin gets the start, hoping for better results than his blowup start in San Diego to begin this trip (seven runs in five innings). The Nats could certainly use some length from the left-hander today after playing 11 innings Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS at SEATTLE MARINERS
Where: T-Mobile Park
Gametime: 4:10 p.m. EDT
TV: MASN2, MLB.tv
Radio: 106.7 FM, MLB.com
Weather: Sunny, 70 degrees, wind 6 mph out to center field
NATIONALS
RF Lane Thomas
2B Luis García
3B Jeimer Candelario
DH Keibert Ruiz
1B Dominic Smith
SS Ildemaro Vargas
LF Corey Dickerson
CF Derek Hill
C Riley Adams
LHP Patrick Corbin
MARINERS
SS J.P. Crawford
CF Julio Rodríguez
1B Ty France
RF Teoscar Hernández
3B Eugenio Suárez
C Tom Murphy
DH AJ Pollock
LF Dylan Moore
2B José Caballero
RHP Logan Gilbert
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