Chicago White Sox vs Washington Nationals All-Time Record

Interleague
Chicago White Sox
Washington Nationals
Nationals lead White Sox20to14since 2002

Retrosheet history through 2025, plus 3 final games from the current feed.

2026 season series: Nationals lead 2-1

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At a glance

Current-feed analysis, 2002 to 2026

Chicago White Sox vs Washington Nationals insights

Current-feed record
+6wins for Nationals
59% Nationals · 41% White Sox

White Sox have closed the gap since the 2023 schedule change: 6-6.

Recent form
8-12last 20
Nationals on a 2-game streak

Nationals won 2-1 on Apr 26, 2026

Where it matters
0Postseason games

No postseason meetings since 2002.

Schedule context
  • Nationals built the series lead before the 2023 schedule change, taking 14 of 22 decided meetings (64%).
  • Since the schedule balanced out they are 6-6, or 50% to Nationals.

White Sox vs Nationals interleague history by season

Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals first met in 2002, so all 34 meetings across 11 seasons sit in the current feed. Interleague scheduling makes meeting frequency uneven, so the season table matters more than a raw average.

Active seasons
11
With at least one meeting since 2002
Busiest season
2019
4 meetings
Per active season
3.1
Uneven interleague cadence
Win Percentage
14W
20W
CHW
WSH
41%59%
Chicago White SoxWashington Nationals

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Apr 26
CHW 1-2 WSH
WSH
Apr 25
CHW 3-6 WSH
WSH
Apr 24
CHW 5-4 WSH
CHW
Sep 28
WSH 0-8 CHW
CHW
Sep 27
WSH 6-5 CHW
WSH
Sep 26
WSH 9-10 CHW
CHW
May 15
CHW 2-0 WSH
CHW
May 14
CHW 3-6 WSH
WSH
May 14
CHW 4-0 WSH
CHW
Sep 20
WSH 13-3 CHW
WSH
Last Meeting
Apr 26, 2026Final
CHW
1
HOME
WSH
2
AWAY
Nationalswon by1run
Nationals' 2nd straight in this series·Game 34 since 2002
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
Washington Nationals: 2 consecutive wins
2
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 3.4 runs on average
3.4runs
Momentum (Last 10 vs Archive since 2002)
CHW-Neutral
Last 1050%
Archive since 200241.2%
WSH-Neutral
Last 1050%
Archive since 200258.8%
Last 10 Results
CHW / WSH

Record since 2002

Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs Postseason record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season34 games
14
20
No postseason meetings appear since 2002.
Chicago White Sox Biggest Win
13–2+11 runs
Jun 9, 2002
Washington Nationals Biggest Win
12–1+11 runs
Jun 10, 2019
Decade Breakdown
Choose a decade to scope the current-feed page
Season by Season
Season ↓CHW ↕WSH ↕Games ↕
2026123
2025213
2024213
2023123
2019134
2016123
2013033
2011123
2010303
2004123
2002123

All 11 seasons are shown in the table above.

Home / Away Split
7-10CHW HOME10-7WSH HOME
AWAY
7-10
CHW
AWAY
10-7
WSH
Retrosheet archiveComplete through 2025

Chicago White Sox vs Washington Nationals all-time record, 2002 to 2025

Explore how this matchup changed by decade, where each lineup produced its runs, and the games that pushed the rivalry record book. This archive is a separate source window from the current-feed sections above, which start in 2002.

Games
31
Peak inning
1
Record game
31 runs
Two source windows. Current-feed sections: 34 games from 2002 to 2026. History Lab: 31 Retrosheet games from 2002 to 2025. The first refreshes with current finals; Retrosheet's published archive currently ends in 2025.Small historical sample: 31 games. Era and inning rates describe these meetings, but should not be treated as a forecast.

Decade balance

Select an era to inspect pace, scoring and attendance.

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Open source archive

Betting Context

Betting context since 2002

How this pairing has settled: run margins, totals and break-even prices derived from its historical record. These are final-score frequencies, not results against a closing line. We do not hold historical sportsbook prices for these games.

Small sample: 34 decided meetings, under the 50 we treat as the floor for a stable rate. Read the figures below as description, not a forecast. Interleague pairs meet in short bursts, so a single series can move any percentage here by several points.

One-run games
32.4%

Share of the 34 decided meetings settled by exactly one run.

Won by 2 or more
67.6%

A 2+ run margin crosses 1.5, but this is not a historical line result. Average gap: 3.4.

Average total
9.8runs

Final-score average without accounting for park, bullpen or weather.

Home side wins
50%

Share of decided meetings won by the listed home team.

Totals ladder

Where the combined score landed against the half-run lines a book normally posts. Half runs cannot push, so every meeting falls on one side.

LineOverUnderOver rate
7.52014
58.8%
8.5Closest to even1915
55.9%
9.51519
44.1%

Fair price from the base rate

The decimal price that corresponds exactly to each club's win share in this archive. It describes the record and does not estimate the next game.

Washington Nationals
20 W · 58.8%1.70
Chicago White Sox
14 W · 41.2%2.43

A base rate is not a forecast. Starting pitchers, lineups, injuries and venue all matter more to a single game than a multi-season head-to-head record.

Last 20 meetings vs full history

One-run games
25%vs 32.4% full archive
-7.4% in the last 20
Won by 2 or more
75%vs 67.6% full archive
+7.4% in the last 20
Average total
9.9 runsvs 9.8 runs full archive
+0.1 runs in the last 20

Seasons 2013 to 2026. The comparison shows whether the last 20 final scores differ from the longer archive, without assigning a cause or predicting what comes next.

View the break-even percentages in another odds format with the odds converter, or compare current prices for Nationals and White Sox in the oddsmatcher.

Questions about this record: Chicago White Sox vs Washington Nationals

How do recent Chicago White Sox vs Washington Nationals results compare with the complete record?

The latest 10 decided meetings are split 5-5. Washington Nationals lead the decided record 20-14. The recent window is a subset of the complete series from 2002 through 2026, so the page reports the two separately.

When did the Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals first play each other?

The Retrosheet archive's first recorded meeting for this pairing is Jun 7, 2002, when Washington Nationals won 4-3 away to Chicago White Sox. The archive covers 31 meetings from 2002 through 2025. The current feed starts in 2002 and is reported separately.

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Methodology & Data Sources

Current MLB game logs come from the balldontlie API and cover the 2002 season onward. Scores and schedule anomalies are checked against the official MLB Stats API. Spring training is excluded, while results from earlier franchise identities are merged into the current club.

The all-time record and the History Lab use Retrosheet game logs through 2025, with inning lines, team totals, attendance, duration and ballpark fields when available. Final games after 2025 come from the current feed, and every section built on that feed alone is labeled as starting in 2002.

The betting context summarizes completed final scores only. It contains no sportsbook closing lines and summarizes only completed games. Report a possible error through our contact page with the matchup and game date.

Read the full H2H data methodology →

Last updated Sources: balldontlie, MLB Stats API, Retrosheet

Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals have met 34 times in this archive, which covers the 2002 season onward.