Gamethread 8/25: Phillies at Nationals

Baseball at night should start at 7:05.

Enough with these weird start times. Tonight’s game starts at 6:05. So does tomorrow. Thursday is at 6:35. C’mon man. I’ve got enough going on; now they’re gonna mess with my internal baseball clock. Ridiculous.

Here is tonight’s lineup for the Phillies:

For the Nationals, it goes like this:

Just a tip for Phillies’ pitching this series: there is no actual reason to pitch to Juan Soto.

At all.

Ever.