Washington Nationals at Pittsburgh Pirates game thread

The Nationals set sail into PNC Park where they find five and eleven Pirates. Today will be the toughest tale of the four game series as they face stud pitcher Paul Skenes.

For the Nationals we still see Alex Call leading off in place of the absence of injured C.J. Abrams. Dylan Crews is back in the lineup, starting at center today. Crews in fact hit his first collegiate home run off of Skenes back in 2021. Hopefully we’ll get to see Crews do his best big league impression of that tonight.

Nasim Nuñez gets the nod at shortstop, this being his first action of the 2025 season. Called up from Rochester Nuñez was batting .192 to start the Tripe-A season. Paul DeJong slides back to third after…