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<\/a>Washington has won four of its last five games, including a 7-0 victory over the Houston Astros as -140 road favorites Wednesday, while going UNDER the betting total for a fourth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Nationals are third in the NL in averaging 4.50 runs per game, while their bullpen boasts a 2.14 ERA.\u00a0 The club is 13-1 when scoring four or more runs, and 3-11 when plating three or fewer.\u00a0 Washington is 19-33 as road underdogs of +100 to +125 the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n
Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg (2-2, 4.24 ERA) is coming off an 11-1 home victory over the San Diego Padres last time out, as he allowed just seven hits over seven shutout frames.\u00a0 The right-hander is 0-1 with a 9.00 ERA in two road outings this season, with opposing hitters batting .325 against him.\u00a0 In six lifetime outings against the Phillies, Strasburg has tallied a 2-1 record and 2.65 ERA.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 6-1 defeat to the New York Mets as -136 home favorites Tuesday, while pushing up against the betting total of 7.\u00a0 The Phillies are fifth in the majors in averaging 4.12 runs per game, but they\u2019ll enter this series with a 4.84 bullpen ERA.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 2-1 at home with a money line of -100 to -125 this season, with the OVER going 2-1 in those three opportunities.<\/p>\n
Phillies starting pitcher Cliff Lee (3-2, 3.29 ERA) has watched the squad win his last two efforts, but he didn\u2019t receive a decision last time out in a 6-5 road victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.\u00a0 The left-hander is 0-2 with a 2.40 ERA in two home appearances\u2014issuing just a single walk and striking out 21 batters in 15 combined innings.\u00a0 In 11 lifetime games versus the Nationals, Lee has put together a 6-4 record and 2.87 ERA.<\/p>\n
Sports bettors will likely back the Nationals due to their 22-9 mark in their last 31 games versus division opponents.<\/p>\n
Make sure to check out our Major League Baseball picks<\/a> all season long and get the most up-to-date betting odds at Bookmaker<\/a><\/p>\n The Washington Nationals (16-12) and Philadelphia Phillies (13-13) will open up a National League East series at Citizens Bank Park Friday night, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m. ET Washington Nationals vs. Philadelphia Phillies Washington has won four of its last five games, including a 7-0 victory over the Houston Astros as -140 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1752,102,98,925,850],"class_list":["post-33976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-citizens-bank-park","tag-cliff-lee","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33977,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33976\/revisions\/33977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}