Nationals vs. Cardinals (Sep 18, 2026)

WSH

Probable Pitchers

STL

Andrew Alvarez

LHP #54

Kyle Leahy

RHP #62

2-6

W-L

10-4

3.35

ERA

3.33

99

SO

128

47

BB

38

1.27

WHIP

1.31

83

H

139

5

HR

14

102.0

IP

135.0

WSH

Team Stats

STL

198

HR

157

772

R

685

1,276

H

1,240

.248

AVG

.243

.323

OBP

.317

.426

SLG

.384

4.74

ERA

4.27

1,185

SO

1,200

556

BB

523

WSH

Injuries

STL

Orlando Ribalta

P

15-Day IL (Forearm)

RF

Everson Pereira

10-Day IL (Hand)

Josiah Gray

P

60-Day IL (Elbow)

2B

JJ Wetherholt

10-Day IL (Wrist)

PJ Poulin

P

60-Day IL (Flexor)

3B

Blaze Jordan

10-Day IL (Ankle)

Mitchell Parker

P

60-Day IL (Elbow)

P

Hunter Dobbins

15-Day IL (Forearm)

Ken Waldichuk

P

60-Day IL (Forearm)

P

Peter Strzelecki

15-Day IL (Forearm)

Drew Millas

C

60-Day IL (Finger)

P

Max Rajcic

60-Day IL (Elbow)

Matt Waldron

P

60-Day IL (Chest)

Connelly Early

P

60-Day IL (Elbow)

DJ Herz

P

60-Day IL (Elbow)

Current Series

Nationals

Cardinals

Game 1

Nationals

Cardinals

Game 2

Nationals

Cardinals

Game 3

2026 NL East

WSHSTL

Team	W	L	PCT	GB
Braves	88	63	.583
Phillies	83	67	.553	4.5
Marlins	74	77	.490	14.0
Nationals	70	81	.464	18.0
Mets	69	81	.460	18.5

Team	W	L	PCT	GB
Brewers - x	93	57	.620
Cubs	84	67	.556	9.5
Pirates	75	75	.500	18.0
Cardinals	75	76	.497	18.5
Reds	70	80	.467	23.0

WSH

Last 5

STL

Sun, Sep 13

Mon, Sep 14

Sat, Sep 12

Sun, Sep 13

Fri, Sep 11

Sat, Sep 12

Wed, Sep 9

Fri, Sep 11

Tue, Sep 8

Wed, Sep 9

Game Info

September 18, 2026

Busch Stadium

St. Louis, Missouri

Team Batting Leaders

HR

30

Wood

RBI

96

Abrams

AVG

.289

Ruiz

Team Pitching Leaders

W

12

Cavalli

K

194

Cavalli

ERA

3.06

Griffin

Season

K. Leahy

Batters	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HBP	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG
Daylen Lile D. Lile	149	564	76	140	27	8	20	82	39	6	121	15	7	.248	.301	.431
CJ Abrams	142	542	88	143	29	3	30	96	53	12	150	29	6	.264	.339	.494
Nasim Nuñez N. Nuñez	136	409	52	86	5	3	1	35	46	1	96	46	9	.210	.290	.244
Jacob Young J. Young	132	398	54	99	20	3	10	47	32	8	75	18	3	.249	.316	.389
James Wood J. Wood	124	474	102	127	29	1	30	75	98	4	165	21	3	.268	.395	.523
Jorbit Vivas J. Vivas	112	283	30	69	15	1	3	29	38	4	47	2	1	.244	.337	.336
José Tena J. Tena	110	249	35	56	12	2	7	23	27	3	86	5	2	.225	.307	.373
Dylan Crews D. Crews	98	363	48	81	19	1	11	40	27	8	98	9	0	.223	.291	.372
Keibert Ruiz K. Ruiz	97	311	44	90	24	0	10	47	16	3	36	2	1	.289	.327	.463
Brady House B. House	85	293	38	70	15	0	10	44	24	3	83	3	0	.239	.300	.392
Andrés Chaparro A. Chaparro	75	175	31	44	12	0	10	36	22	5	48	0	0	.251	.351	.491
Drew Millas D. Millas	50	130	18	24	4	0	2	11	14	3	37	0	1	.185	.277	.262
Abimelec Ortiz A. Ortiz	37	113	16	24	5	0	5	13	6	0	32	0	0	.212	.252	.389
Harry Ford H. Ford	31	86	14	16	6	0	3	10	14	1	23	3	0	.186	.307	.360
Andrew Pinckney A. Pinckney	16	22	6	6	0	1	1	3	1	1	8	1	1	.273	.308	.500
Yohandy Morales Y. Morales	9	27	6	8	2	0	2	3	0	0	8	1	0	.296	.296	.593
Clayton Beeter C. Beeter	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Brad Lord B. Lord	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Orlando Ribalta O. Ribalta	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Jake Bird J. Bird	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Gus Varland G. Varland	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Zak Kent Z. Kent	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Paxton Schultz P. Schultz	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-

Batters	G	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG
CJ Abrams	2	2	-	1	1	0	0	0	-	-	.500	.500	1.000
Drew Millas D. Millas	1	1	-	1	0	0	0	0	-	-	1.000	1.000	1.000
Daylen Lile D. Lile	1	0	-	0	0	0	1	0	-	-	-	1.000	-
James Wood J. Wood	1	1	-	0	0	0	0	1	-	-	.000	.000	.000
Jacob Young J. Young	1	1	-	0	0	1	0	0	-	-	.000	.000	.000

Pitchers	G	GS	W	L	ERA	SO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP
Clayton Beeter C. Beeter	50	0	6	5	4.50	47	12	48.0	36	24	25	8	31	3
Orlando Ribalta O. Ribalta	45	0	1	2	3.77	42	2	43.0	34	18	21	5	18	0
Brad Lord B. Lord	37	5	5	2	4.06	71	1	77.2	67	35	36	10	31	7
PJ Poulin	35	11	3	0	2.70	25	3	36.2	27	11	12	4	21	1
Gus Varland G. Varland	33	0	1	2	6.82	30	6	31.2	43	24	26	7	15	0
Cade Cavalli C. Cavalli	31	31	12	5	3.12	194	0	164.2	144	57	68	18	48	16
Richard Lovelady R. Lovelady	27	5	1	3	3.91	21	4	23.0	26	10	10	3	17	3
Paxton Schultz P. Schultz	27	1	1	2	6.40	32	1	32.1	43	23	26	5	12	1
Andrew Alvarez A. Alvarez	23	15	2	6	3.35	99	1	102.0	83	38	38	5	47	3
Mitchell Parker M. Parker	22	0	3	3	6.58	34	1	39.2	46	29	31	9	13	2
Jake Irvin J. Irvin	20	19	2	9	5.51	96	0	96.1	90	59	63	17	46	9
Riley Cornelio R. Cornelio	14	2	2	2	4.88	31	0	27.2	21	15	20	2	22	0
Cole Henry C. Henry	11	0	0	2	7.90	15	0	13.2	17	12	14	4	7	3
Carson Palmquist C. Palmquist	11	6	0	2	7.71	15	0	16.1	21	14	14	1	8	3
Will Dion W. Dion	10	1	1	2	3.80	21	0	21.1	11	9	9	3	10	0
Zak Kent Z. Kent	9	0	0	0	5.68	10	0	12.2	15	8	8	1	3	0
Erik Tolman E. Tolman	9	0	1	1	2.61	11	2	10.1	8	3	4	0	5	0
Jake Bird J. Bird	8	0	0	0	3.24	10	0	8.1	6	3	3	2	2	0
Eddy Yean E. Yean	8	1	0	1	2.45	7	0	11.0	8	3	3	1	2	1
Yovanny Cruz Y. Cruz	7	0	0	1	9.00	5	0	5.0	9	5	5	1	6	0
Jackson Kent J. Kent	6	6	1	4	6.59	23	0	27.1	30	20	21	1	20	0
Ken Waldichuk K. Waldichuk	5	0	0	0	6.75	8	0	9.1	8	7	7	4	6	1
Jack Sinclair J. Sinclair	5	0	1	0	1.69	5	1	5.1	2	1	1	0	3	2
Jorbit Vivas J. Vivas	4	0	0	0	13.50	0	0	4.0	11	6	7	1	1	3
Luis Perales L. Perales	4	0	0	0	11.57	9	0	7.0	10	9	9	3	6	0
Matt Waldron M. Waldron	3	1	1	0	0.00	2	0	5.2	7	0	0	0	1	0
Jared Simpson J. Simpson	3	0	1	0	6.75	4	0	4.0	0	3	3	0	3	0
José Tena J. Tena	1	0	0	0	9.00	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0

Team Batting Leaders

HR

28

Walker

RBI

110

Burleson

AVG

.285

Burleson

Team Pitching Leaders

W

12

Pallante

K

146

Liberatore

ERA

2.61

Graceffo

Season

A. Alvarez

Batters	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	HBP	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG
Alec Burleson A. Burleson	150	569	83	162	36	1	22	110	55	6	108	4	0	.285	.352	.467
Ivan Herrera I. Herrera	150	568	93	138	25	1	16	64	73	29	123	8	0	.243	.356	.375
Jordan Walker J. Walker	147	569	92	160	33	0	28	100	46	4	158	19	5	.281	.337	.487
Nathan Church N. Church	131	397	50	100	14	2	10	50	24	4	75	10	5	.252	.297	.373
JJ Wetherholt	130	505	88	122	14	0	17	48	63	16	95	14	1	.242	.343	.370
Masyn Winn M. Winn	127	449	51	106	20	2	5	54	45	7	108	10	2	.236	.311	.323
José Fermín J. Fermín	109	304	30	73	15	0	6	39	29	1	46	8	0	.240	.303	.349
Nolan Gorman N. Gorman	79	254	25	47	6	0	9	32	28	0	93	0	1	.185	.263	.315
Pedro Pagés P. Pagés	77	179	13	38	6	0	4	11	11	2	52	2	0	.212	.263	.313
Victor Scott II V. Scott II	73	158	19	31	4	0	2	9	16	2	44	11	5	.196	.277	.259
Bryan Torres B. Torres	67	149	17	38	1	2	4	19	15	1	33	2	0	.255	.323	.369
Blaze Jordan B. Jordan	58	186	16	46	8	4	3	28	7	2	30	0	0	.247	.276	.382
Jimmy Crooks J. Crooks	52	134	10	24	6	0	5	14	9	5	48	0	0	.179	.255	.336
Thomas Saggese T. Saggese	47	127	23	34	5	1	4	12	11	0	36	4	2	.268	.321	.417
Ramón Urías R. Urías	42	85	14	13	3	0	4	9	9	4	18	0	1	.153	.263	.329
Joshua Báez J. Báez	28	96	18	23	7	0	7	18	4	3	33	2	1	.240	.288	.531
Cesar Prieto C. Prieto	14	32	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	0	.063	.091	.063
Leo Bernal L. Bernal	13	52	8	17	3	0	3	14	4	0	10	0	1	.327	.375	.558
Everson Pereira E. Pereira	11	18	2	5	0	0	1	1	1	3	7	0	0	.278	.409	.444
George Soriano G. Soriano	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Ryne Stanek R. Stanek	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-
Riley O'Brien R. O'Brien	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-

Pitchers	G	GS	W	L	ERA	SO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP
Justin Bruihl J. Bruihl	68	0	1	1	3.58	52	0	73.0	71	29	35	4	27	11
George Soriano G. Soriano	68	0	6	5	4.36	63	4	64.0	57	31	33	10	34	3
Ryne Stanek R. Stanek	67	0	2	2	4.20	64	2	60.0	52	28	30	9	30	2
Riley O'Brien R. O'Brien	63	0	3	8	4.13	62	37	61.0	50	28	32	4	28	10
Gordon Graceffo G. Graceffo	58	1	8	1	2.61	57	1	76.0	46	22	24	5	33	3
Matt Svanson M. Svanson	41	1	2	3	7.27	41	0	43.1	55	35	39	5	21	2
Matthew Liberatore M. Liberatore	29	29	5	14	5.53	146	0	143.1	161	88	94	27	52	5
Michael McGreevy M. McGreevy	29	29	7	9	3.83	112	0	160.0	154	68	73	20	45	1
Luis Gastelum L. Gastelum	29	0	4	3	4.50	38	0	32.0	29	16	20	6	11	1
Kyle Leahy K. Leahy	28	28	10	4	3.33	128	0	135.0	139	50	50	14	38	5
Andre Pallante A. Pallante	26	26	12	6	3.45	102	0	146.0	135	56	58	10	45	6
Ryan Fernandez R. Fernandez	17	0	1	2	3.52	28	0	23.0	19	9	14	2	11	0
Hunter Dobbins H. Dobbins	11	8	3	3	3.67	52	1	54.0	49	22	24	7	24	2
Peter Strzelecki P. Strzelecki	8	0	1	1	5.79	8	0	14.0	13	9	9	1	6	2
Quinn Mathews Q. Mathews	7	7	2	3	3.62	36	0	37.1	36	15	15	3	16	1
Cade Winquest C. Winquest	6	0	1	0	6.75	6	0	6.2	5	5	7	0	3	1
Max Rajcic M. Rajcic	6	0	0	0	5.00	8	0	9.0	6	5	5	1	6	0
Brycen Mautz B. Mautz	4	1	0	1	9.00	11	0	9.0	14	9	9	2	7	2
Pedro Pagés P. Pagés	2	0	0	0	4.50	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	1	0	0
Cooper Hjerpe C. Hjerpe	2	0	1	0	7.20	9	0	5.0	2	4	4	0	4	2
Hancel Rincon H. Rincon	2	0	0	0	47.25	1	0	1.1	5	7	7	1	1	1
Bryan Torres B. Torres	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	0

Nationals WSH

Cardinals STL

Probable Pitchers

Team Stats

Injuries

Current Series

2026 NL East

Last 5

Game Info

30

96

.289

12

194

3.06

28

110

.285

12

146

2.61