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Two Cy Young Award frontrunners will meet for the second time in less than a week Tuesday night in Philadelphia.Aaron Nola will square off against Max Scherzer as the Philadelphia Phillies host the Washington Nationals in the second contest of a three-game set at Citizens Bank Park. Washington was a 5-3 winner Monday night in the series opener Cole Hamels Jersey , which pushed Philadelphia (70-61) 3 1/2 games behind the Atlanta Braves in the National League East. Article continues below ...Nola (15-3, 2.13 ERA) and Scherzer (16-6, 2.13) did not disappoint in their meeting last week. But Nola got the best of the two-time defending NL Cy Young winner, improving to 3-0 versus Washington this season.Nola threw eight scoreless innings and had nine strikeouts in the Phillies’ 2-0 win. Nola allowed five hits and one walk in the outing, which marked the 15th time in 26 starts that he gave up one earned run or fewer.The start was accentuated by an eighth-inning strikeout of Bryce Harper, the last batter Nola faced. His manager made a case for Nola as the league’s top pitcher after the game.“It’s tough to account for three pitches, and I think part of that is why Aaron Nola in my opinion is the Cy Young this year,” Phillies manager Gabe Kapler told MLB.com “Of course, Nola is our guy. I watch him every time out there and just the dependability, the consistency, the creativity, the numbers. The numbers speak for themselves.”Nola and Scherzer are tied for the second-best ERA in the NL. New York Mets right-hander Jacob deGrom, the other pitcher in the Cy Young conversation, has the only better ERA at 1.71. Nola is tied for second in the National League in WHIP (0.97) http://www.rangersfanproshop.com/authentic-russell-wilson-jersey , third in innings pitched (169) and tied for fifth in strikeouts (169). Scherzer leads the league in all three of those categories.Going for his third straight NL Cy Young win and fourth trophy overall, Scherzer has posted dominant numbers in 2018. He has 244 strikeouts, 181 2/3 innings pitched and a 0.89 WHIP through 27 starts.He had 10 strikeouts against the Phillies on Thursday, marking the 14th time he has hit double digits this season. The only damage against the 34-year-old in his last start was a two-run homer from Odubel Herrera.“That was the one pitch that beat me,” Scherzer told MLB.com after the loss.Scherzer’s best strikeout game of the year came May 6 against the Phillies when he struck out 15 batters in 6 1/3 innings. Scherzer is 9-2 with a 2.51 ERA and 0.96 WHIP in 16 career starts against Philadelphia.Nola, meanwhile, has a 3.57 career ERA against the Nationals, and he has limited them to three earned runs in three starts (21 2/3 innings) this season. The 25-year-old also has a perfect record at home this season. Nola is 9-0 with a 2.00 ERA and 10 strikeouts per nine innings at Citizens Bank Park.The Phillies, who are 41-23 at home this season, have lost 12 of their last 18 games and are 3 1/2 games back in the division for the first time since June 26.The Nationals (66-66) are 13-13 in August and eight games behind Atlanta. SAN FRANCISCO — Two teams playing out the string of losing seasons will open a three-game series Monday night when the San Diego Padres visit the San Francisco Giants.Padres right-hander Bryan Mitchell (1-4, 6.16) and Giants lefty Derek Holland (7-8, 3.57) each will face the same opponent as in his last start, although they did not go head-to-head last week in San Diego.The Giants got home runs from Brandon Crawford and Evan Longoria off Mitchell in a 4-2 win at San Diego last Monday.Article continues below ...The 27-year-old went five innings, allowing four runs and nine hits Martin Perez Jersey , in falling to 0-2 with a 7.88 ERA in two career starts against San Francisco.Holland pitched last Tuesday’s 5-4 victory in San Diego, but he didn’t stick around long enough to get the win. He was pulled after giving up all four Padres runs in five innings, with one of his five hits allowed being a home run by Franmil Reyes.The 31-year-old has a 1-1 lifetime record and 6.39 ERA against the Padres in five starts.The Giants (72-84), losers of four straight, have clinched fourth place in the National League West, while the Padres (62-94), who have dropped two in a row, are assured of finishing last.They were flip-flopped at the end of last season, when the Padres won 71 games and the Giants just 64.Both teams are coming off series where they had a chance to play spoiler, and the Padres did a better job of it.They got home runs from Hunter Renfroe and Freddy Galvis in a 5-3 win over the NL West’s top team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, on Friday night, before getting rolled 7-2 and 14-0 in rematches over the weekend.Eric Lauer, who pitched the win over the Dodgers Jurickson Profar Jersey , is scheduled to oppose the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner in the series finale Wednesday.The Padres have lost 10 of 16 against the Giants this season, but not because of Renfroe. He’s recorded two doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs against San Francisco despite having started just nine of the games.The Giants flew home Sunday night after having lost three straight to the St. Louis Cardinals, who needed the wins in their pursuit of an NL wild-card spot. Crawford hit a two-run homer to account for all the San Francisco scoring in a 9-2 loss Sunday in the series finale.Crawford has been a key to the Giants’ success against the Padres this season, going 19-for-53 (.358) with two doubles, two triples, a home run and eight RBIs in 13 starts.The otherwise meaningless series pits two young players who so far have made the most of their September opportunities.The Padres’ Reyes, a 23-year-old outfielder who made his major-league debut in May, has gone 22-for-63 (.349) in September with three homers and 10 RBIs.The Giants, meanwhile, have gotten surprising production from 25-year-old backup catcher Aramis Garcia, who made his debut on Aug. 31. He’s gone 12-for-34 (.353) with two homers and five RBIs this month.