Nationals @ Red Sox, Game 1

[The Chief]

Washington Nationals vs Boston Red Sox
Fenway Park
7:10 PM EDT

Miles Mikolas RHP, 2-6 5.24 ERA
Ranger Suarez LHP, 3-3 2.83 ERA

Nationals
1. James Wood L LF
2. A. Chaparro R DH
3. Curtis Mead R 3B
4. CJ Abrams L SS
5. Dylan Crews R RF
6. Jacob Young R CF
7. Luis Garcia L 1B
8. Nasim Nunez S 2B
9. Keibert Ruiz S C

Red Sox
1. M. Yoshida L DH
2. C. Rafaela R CF
3. Wilyer Abreu L RF
4. W. Contreras R 1B
5. Jarren Duran L LF
6. Caleb Durbin R 3B
7. A. Seigler L 2B
8. C. Narvaez R C
9. T. Cheng L SS

[The Chief]

I'm not digging up all the fancy extra stats like JCA but at least I got the confirmed lineups in place before game time this time

[tomterp]

 


Guessing JCA is over at Son of Sam Horn for the series?   

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Guessing JCA is over at Son of Sam Horn for the series?   

All I know is Spider would object to having any split loyalty folks starting the GDT.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Luis at 1st, Lile gets the day off, and Chappy DHs. With the Nats facing 3 lefties in a row, I thought they'd give LGJr a shot at 1st somehow. Also, with Boston's RF, Crews likely will get 3 games out there.

Garcia does have a huge record of success against Ranger from his days in Philadelphia. 8 PAs, OPS .250. Ruiz is similar, but he's had some success against several Boston relievers (Chapman, Weissert, Whitlock). 2 hitters, Young and Crews, have had some success (5 PAs each, OPS 1.400 and .900).
 https://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2026/BOS202606290.shtml

Wilson Contreras has had a lot of PAs and a lot of success against Mikolas (19 PAs, 1.000 OPS). Caleb Durbin has 7 PAs with a 1.857 OPS.

Mikolas has been fairly effective over his last 7 appearances, going back to 5/22: 35.2 IP, 13 ER / 15 R, 5 HR, 3 BB, 16 K, 3.28 ERA.

Suarez has had a strong 4 appearances in June: 24 IP, 6 BB, 27 K, 0 HR, 1.50  ERA

[tomterp]

Garcia does have a huge record of success against Ranger from his days in Philadelphia. 8 PAs, OPS .250.

1 for 8, does NOT have a huge record of success I think you meant to say.

Thanks for including the link, I had no idea you could see historical player vs player (and team vs team) records like that at Baseball Reference.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

1 for 8, does NOT have a huge record of success I think you meant to say.

Thanks for including the link, I had no idea you could see historical player vs player (and team vs team) records like that at Baseball Reference.

thanks, yes. Garcia had a single in 8 ABs

[skippy1999]

Love it

[welch]

Wood starts it off. Of course, Nats fans remember when Frank Howard hit a homer at Fenway with only one hand on the bat.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Ok, I thought he'd go the other way and use the wall. That was a heck of a shot. Papi-esque

[skippy1999]

Hate it

[GataNats]

Get rid of this fking guy

[varoadking]

Game...

[SkinsNatFan21RIP]

Mikolas sucks so bad. I miss the days when Tanner Roark was our “worst” pitcher.

[shoeshineboy]

Should have challenged the ball call

[varoadking]

Game...

Series...

[SkinsNatFan21RIP]

He has got to effing go. Toboni…do something dude.

[shoeshineboy]

Mikolis is a BP pitcher.

[welch]

Paraguay just beat Germany on penalty kicks, 4-3.

[Slateman]

Meatball Miles

[GataNats]

Have to DFA today.  Nobody is giving him a major league contract

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Durbin has turned around his year the past month or so. He was going to be chased out of town earlier in the year.

[GataNats]

We should have let Cornelio start the first day he came up.   Putting him in the pen stunted his growth

[Natsinpwc]

This was a penciled in loss given the starting pitchers.

[welch]

And Mikolas settles in.