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April 3, 2026 · NL East

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Washington Nationals

April 3, 2026Nationals ParkPartly Cloudy 62°F · 4 mph, Out To RF
AWAY
Los Angeles Dodgers
5-2
13
vs

Starting pitchers

AWAY · LAD
Emmet Sheehan
Emmet Sheehan
IP 5.2
HOME · WSH
Miles Mikolas
Miles Mikolas
IP 4.1

Lineups

AWAY · LAD
  1. 1 Shohei Ohtani DH
  2. 2 Kyle Tucker RF
  3. 3 Mookie Betts SS
  4. 4 Freddie Freeman 1B
  5. 5 Will Smith C
  6. 6 Max Muncy 3B
  7. 7 Teoscar Hernández LF
  8. 8 Andy Pages CF
  9. 9 Alex Freeland 2B
HOME · WSH
  1. 1 James Wood RF
  2. 2 Luis García 1B
  3. 3 Daylen Lile LF
  4. 4 Brady House DH
  5. 5 CJ Abrams SS
  6. 6 Nasim Nuñez 2B
  7. 7 Jorbit Vivas 3B
  8. 8 Keibert Ruiz C
  9. 9 Jacob Young CF

Box score

  123456789 R
LAD 005240101 13
WSH 301000020 6

Manager comparison

Both managers grade B / C entering this matchup.

AWAY · LAD
Dave Roberts
B Lineup 0.2 R Bunts 0.3 R IBBs 1.0 R
HOME · WSH
Blake Butera
C Lineup 1.6 R Bunts 1.5 R IBBs 1.4 R

Recent form

AWAY · LAD
5-5 W1 +16 run diff
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HOME · WSH
6-4 W3 +6 run diff
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Tactical analysis

RunsLeft separates manager decisions from player execution from game variance. Each card below is the same three-number framework that drives the share cards on the SPA replay page.

AWAY · Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Manager lineup cost −0.22 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 4.98 vs actual lineup 5.20
  • Player execution +7.80 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 5.20 projection by 7.80 (scored 13)
  • Game variance +8.02 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Pages HR from the 8-hole

HOME · Washington Nationals
  • Manager lineup cost +0.05 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 4.84 vs actual lineup 4.79
  • Player execution +1.21 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 4.79 projection by 1.21 (scored 6)
  • Game variance +1.16 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Lineup spots out of order vs season production

COUNTERFACTUAL

Optimal lineups projected 5.0 – 4.8 — actual was 13 – 6.

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How RunsLeft analyzes games

Standard content on this page comes from the MLB Stats API. Tactical analysis comes from a per-game Monte Carlo: 10,000 simulated games against the opposing starter's ERA, both for the actual lineup the manager wrote and for the optimal arrangement of those nine players. The three numbers — manager cost, player execution, game variance — separate which part of the result was the lineup, the players, or the dice.

Read the full methodology.