The Washington Nationals will play game two of three against the New York Yankees tonight at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. The Nationals are scheduled to send left-handed pitcher MacKenzie Gore, who has a 5-12 record and a 4.11 ERA entering tonight’s game. The Nationals will face right-handed pitcher Luis Gil with a 1-1 record and a 4.26 ERA from the New York Yankees.

Last night, the Yankees broke the game open against Lord in the fifth to hand him his first truly bad start of the season - Lord departed after four and a third in a 7-0 hole following a Jazz Chisholm Jr. moonshot as the capper to the Yankees’ five-run inning. Two innings later, Jasson Domínguez took Cole Henry deep with two men on to put the Evil Empire into double digits.

On the offensive side of things, meanwhile, the Nats got themselves into trouble on the bases, getting picked off (Jacob Young) and caught stealing (Josh Bell) in the third and fourth innings to squelch a couple of chances to put something together (Bell’s steal was part of a coordinated play with CJ Abrams stealing home - but I will never understand playing for one run in Yankee Stadium). It took until the ninth inning for the Nats to do anything of consequence - all of it with two outs after Bell grounded into his second double play of the evening following a Luis García Jr. single.

On Deck…

The Nationals will conclude their three-game series against the New York Yankees tomorrow afternoon, with the scheduled first pitch at 1:05 p.m., with right-handed pitcher Cade Cavalli scheduled to make the start. Cavalli has a 1-0 record and a 2.82 ERA entering tomorrow afternoon’s game. The Nationals are scheduled to face lefty Max Fried, who has a 13-5 record and a 3.14 ERA.

In the hole…

After tomorrow’s game, the Nationals will have Thursday off before hosting the Tampa Bay Rays for a three-game weekend series, before the Miami Marlins come down starting on Labor Day.