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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Hello from Kauffman Stadium, which still looks great 52 years after it first opened. The Nationals are here for the first time since 2023, looking to pick up where they left off Sunday in San Francisco, having won two in a row from the Giants.<\/p>\n
First things first: Dylan Crews is not here. He has not been activated off the 60-day injured list yet, even though he played nine innings each of the last two days with Triple-A Rochester. It sure seems like the Nats will wait until they return home Thursday to bring him back, but hopefully we\u2019ll get more information here shortly.<\/p>\n
As for who is here tonight, Cade Cavalli is on the mound, making his second big league start of the season, the third of his career. Cavalli\u2019s return last week could not have gone much better: 4 1\/3 scoreless innings on 88 pitches. He\u2019ll try to be a little more efficient tonight, but more important is the quality of his stuff and the health of his arm.<\/p>\n
Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. returns to the Nats lineup after missing the entire weekend series with tightness in his back. He\u2019s batting all the way down in the No. 8 spot against Royals left-hander Bailey Falter, which means Paul DeJong is again batting third, this time playing third base in place of Brady House. DeJong has been hot. Miguel Cairo will try to keep getting him at-bats.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON NATIONALS at KANSAS CITY ROYALS NATIONALS RHP Cade Cavalli<\/p>\n ROYALS LHP Bailey Falter<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.masnsports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Hello from Kauffman Stadium, which still looks great 52 years after it first opened. The Nationals are here for the first time since 2023, looking to pick up where they left off Sunday in San Francisco, having won two in a row from the Giants. First things first: Dylan Crews is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1955022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[342631,342937,43627,337851,342935,342934,342633,342938,342936],"class_list":["post-1955021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-dylan-crews","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-lineups","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-mark-zuckerman","tag-nationals","tag-nationals-featured","tag-paul-dejong"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Game-118-lineups-Nats-at-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Where:<\/strong> Kauffman Stadium
Gametime:<\/strong> 7:40 p.m. EDT
TV:<\/strong> MASN, MLB.tv
Radio:<\/strong> 106.7 FM, 87.7 FM (Spanish), MLB.com
Weather:<\/strong> Thunderstorms, 77 degrees, wind 6 mph out to left field<\/p>\n
<\/strong>LF James Wood
SS CJ Abrams
3B Paul DeJong
DH Josh Bell
1B Nathaniel Lowe
C Riley Adams
RF Daylen Lile
2B Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.
CF Jacob Young<\/p>\n
<\/strong>RF\u00a0Mike Yastrzemski
SS Bobby Witt Jr.
1B\u00a0Vinnie Pasquantino
3B\u00a0Maikel Garcia
C Salvador Perez
2B Adam Frazier
DH\u00a0Randal Grichuk
LF Nick Loftin
CF Kyle Isbel<\/p>\n