Tampa Bay Rays vs Washington Nationals All-Time Record

Interleague
Tampa Bay Rays
Washington Nationals
Rays lead Nationals27to22since 1998

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

2026 season series: Rays lead 2-1

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At a glance

All-time since 1998 · current-feed analysis, 2002 to 2026

Tampa Bay Rays vs Washington Nationals insights

Current-feed record
+7wins for Rays
59% Rays · 41% Nationals

Rays have pulled further ahead since 2023: 10-2.

Recent form
12-8last 20

Rays won 4-3 on Jun 21, 2026

Where it matters
0Postseason games

No postseason meetings since 2002.

Schedule context
  • Rays built the series lead before the 2023 schedule change, taking 12 of 25 decided meetings (48%).
  • Since the schedule balanced out they are 10-2, or 83% to Rays.

Rays vs Nationals complete all-time series record

Tampa Bay Rays and Washington Nationals have met 49 times since 1998, never in the postseason. 12 meetings predate the current feed, which adds game-level detail from 2002.

History span
1998 to 2026
First and latest meeting
Before 2002
12
Meetings from the Retrosheet game logs
Since 2002
37
Meetings with game-level detail below
Win Percentage
22W
15W
TB
WSH
59%41%
Tampa Bay RaysWashington Nationals

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Jun 21
TB 4-3 WSH
TB
Jun 20
TB 3-4 WSH
WSH
Jun 19
TB 5-2 WSH
TB
Aug 31
WSH 4-7 TB
TB
Aug 30
WSH 1-4 TB
TB
Aug 29
WSH 1-4 TB
TB
Jun 30
TB 5-0 WSH
TB
Jun 29
TB 1-8 WSH
WSH
Jun 28
TB 3-1 WSH
TB
Apr 5
WSH 2-7 TB
TB
Last Meeting
Jun 21, 2026Final
TB
4
HOME
WSH
3
AWAY
Rayswon by1run
Snapped Nationals' streak·Game 37 since 2002
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
Tampa Bay Rays won the most recent meeting
1
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 3.9 runs on average
3.9runs
Momentum (Last 10 vs Archive since 2002)
TB↑Trending Up
Last 1080%
Archive since 200259.5%
WSH↓Trending Down
Last 1020%
Archive since 200240.5%
Last 10 Results
TB / WSH

Record since 2002

Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs Postseason record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season37 games
22
15
No postseason meetings appear since 2002.
Tampa Bay Rays Biggest Win
11–0+11 runs
Jun 25, 2018
Washington Nationals Biggest Win
16–4+12 runs
Jun 16, 2015
Decade Breakdown
Choose a decade to scope the current-feed page
Season by Season
Season ↓TB ↕WSH ↕Games ↕
2026213
2025303
2024213
2023303
2021134
2020134
2018224
2015314
2012123
2009303
2006123

All 11 seasons are shown in the table above.

Home / Away Split
12-5TB HOME10-10WSH HOME
AWAY
10-10
TB
AWAY
5-12
WSH
Retrosheet archiveComplete through 2025

Tampa Bay Rays vs Washington Nationals all-time record, 1998 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
46
Peak inning
EX
Record game
21 runs
Two source windows. Current-feed sections: 37 games from 2006 to 2026. History Lab: 46 Retrosheet games from 1998 to 2025. The first refreshes with current finals; Retrosheet's published archive currently ends in 2025.Small historical sample: 46 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: 37 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
24.3%

Share of the 37 decided meetings settled by exactly one run.

Won by 2 or more
75.7%

A 2+ run margin crosses 1.5, but this is not a historical line result. Average gap: 3.9.

Average total
8.5runs

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

Home side wins
59.5%

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
7.5Closest to even1720
45.9%
8.51324
35.1%
9.5928
24.3%

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.

Tampa Bay Rays
22 W · 59.5%1.68
Washington Nationals
15 W · 40.5%2.47

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
15%vs 24.3% full archive
-9.3% in the last 20
Won by 2 or more
85%vs 75.7% full archive
+9.3% in the last 20
Average total
8.5 runsvs 8.5 runs full archive
0 runs in the last 20

Seasons 2020 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 Rays and Nationals in the oddsmatcher.

Questions about this record: Tampa Bay Rays vs Washington Nationals

How do recent Tampa Bay Rays vs Washington Nationals results compare with the complete record?

Tampa Bay Rays have won 8 of the latest 10 decided meetings. Tampa Bay Rays lead the decided record 27-22. The recent window is a subset of the complete series from 1998 through 2026, so the page reports the two separately.

When did the Tampa Bay Rays and Washington Nationals first play each other?

The Retrosheet archive's first recorded meeting for this pairing is Jun 5, 1998, when Washington Nationals won 5-2 away to Tampa Bay Rays. The archive covers 46 meetings from 1998 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

Tampa Bay Rays and Washington Nationals have met 37 times in this archive, which covers the 2006 season onward.