Start in the second half in Washington-San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego Padres at Washington National

• Friday: 3:45 p.m. (Padres.tv)
• Saturday: 3:45 p.m. (Padres.tv, CBS)
• Sunday: 10:35 a.m. (Padres.tv)

In the overall ranking

San Diego Padres (52-54, 2nd in NL West)

The Padres are 5½ games behind the Dodgers in the division and owned by the NL, half a game in front of the giants. The Padres took two out of three of the Nationals in Petco Park last month.

Washington Nationals (38-58, 5th in NL Ost)

The nationals are 17 games in the division and 14 games from a place in the wilderness. Washington reached a May 15th to 12th, before he started 7-19 in June and 3: 9 to July. The nationals have lost five out of six since he replaced managers Dave Martinez with Miguel Cairo.

Deployment

San Diego: The Padres are 17th with a plus 7 running differential. They are 23. 3b Manny Machado Guide the team with four homers in July (. Elias Díaz And Martín Maldonado are a combined 3-on-34 to start in July

Washington: The minus 102 differential of the nationals is third in the Majors. They occupy 19th place in Ops (.700), 26. In rotation time (.477) and suffer in the Bullpen -era (5.88). 1b Josh Bell leads the team with an operating room of 0.928 this month, although its four additional hits are all doubles. FROM Jacob Young meets this month .162/.225/.162.

Pitching matchups

Friday

Padres RhP Dylan stop (3-9, 4.88 ERA) | His nine defeats in just more than half a season are only two of his career high. The strike rate of Cease (11.2 per nine innings) has been its best since 2021 (12.3), but his home rune (1.3 per nine innings) has been his worst since 2020 (1.9). Cease has a 6.51 ERA in his last five starts. This is the first start of Cease against the Nationals since no hitting it last year in Washington.

National RhP Michael Soroka (3-7, 5.35 ERA) | The 2015 Braves First-Rounder will be with his second team in so many years after starting his career. After his debut in 2018, Soroka had an ERA of 2.86 ERA in 214 Innerings and then missed every 2021 and 2022. Soroka threw two innings into the Padres last year, but has not started against her since the 2-0 times in 2019 (13 IP, 1 er).

Saturday

Padres RhP Yu Darvish (0-1, 6.48 ERA) | He drove his pitch from 63 (3⅔ IP, 2 ERA) to 83 (4⅔ IP, 4 ER) when he lacks elbow problems after the first three months of the season. The Padres shared Darvish's first two starts. He has an ERA of 4.60 in five career against the Nationals, the last one victory in 2023 (6 IP, 3 ERA).

National LHP Mitchell Parker (5-10, 5.12 ERA) | He supported the only victory of the Nationals in Petco Park last month and limited the Padres to three runs in six in ours, even though it was only one dough. Parker has had an 8.04 -according to three starts since then. Left have one.

Sunday

Padres RhP Nick Pivetta (9-2, 2.88 ERA) | His breakout seasons were cited by reducing 1.7 per nine inning in the past year to 1.0 this year. His hit rate (6.8 per nine innings) would also be the best of his career when the season ended today. Pivetta's run of four in a row with one or less runs allowed (0.36 ERA) began with 10 Nationals via seven shutout -ininnings on June 25th in Petco Park.

Nationals LHP Mackenzie Gore (4-8, 3.02 ERA) | The first all-star has 138 strikes in 110 ⅓ Innings, including six of six Innerings from One-Run ball in a hard defeat against his former team in Petco Park in June. Gore has an ERA of 2.08 ERA in his last three starts and an ERA of 2.39 ERA in eight house begins this year for the Nationals.

Team leader

• Ops: Padres—3b Manny Machado (.840), by Fernando Tatis Jr. (.817), ie gavin sheets (.775); National– by James Wood (.915), SS CJ Abrams (.836), 2b Luis Garcia (.695).
• HRS: Padres– Macado (17), Tatis (16), leaves (14); National-Wood (24), 1b Nathaniel Lowe (14), Abrams (12).
• RBIS: Padres– Macado (56), leaves (50), Tatis (42); National-Wood (69), Lowe (61), Garcia (43).
• Steals: Padres– Tatis (21), SS Xander Bogaerts (15), Macado (8); National– Abrams (20), wood (12) from Dylan crew (11).
• Save: Padres-RHP Robert Suarez (28-for-31, 3.54 ERA); National-RHP Kyle Finnegan (18-against-24, 3.12 ERA).
• Holds: padres– RhP Jason Adam (23, 1.70 ERA), RHP Jeremiah Estrada (19, 2.93 ERA), LHP Adrián Morejón (13, 1,85 era); National– LHP Jose Ferrer (17, 5.03 ERA), RHP Brad Lord (7, 3.46 ERA), LHP Jorge Lopez (5, 6.57 ERA).

Training room

San Diego: RHP Michael King (Shoulder) increases his throwing program when he strives for a return in August for rotation. RHP Joe Musgrove (Tommy John Operation) has thrown the hill in the bullpen because he has the hope of making himself available as a helper if the Padres should make the off -season.

Washington: C Keibert Ruiz has been on the brain coating list since he took a foul ball off the head in Petco Park last month. RHP Trevor Williams (Ellbogen) will be exposed to internal bracketing by next year. FROM Dylan crews (weird) and RHP Josiah Gray (Ellbogen) are among the Nationals that are due in the second half.