Teen phenom joins aces on MLB.TV stage

The baseball spotlight will shine on Citi Field tonight, when 19-year-old Dodgers left-hander Julio Urias makes his highly anticipated Major League debut against the Mets and Jacob deGrom.

But that’s far from the only matchup of note on the day’s full 15-game slate, as plenty of other intriguing contests await on MLB.TV.

After the first-place Nationals won their series opener, 2-1, against the Cardinals on Thursday in Washington, they will try to take a second straight behind Max Scherzer. Meanwhile, several other weekend series will be getting underway, with the first-place Red Sox heading north of the border to Toronto, the red-hot Pirates putting a win streak on the line against the Rangers’ Cole Hamels, and the first-place Mariners trying to keep things going as they send Felix Hernandez to the mound against the Twins.

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Here is a look at what to watch for today in the Majors (all times ET):

Max in a groove: STL@WAS, 7:05 p.m. The Cardinals’ Jaime Garcia will be trying to rediscover his form when he takes the mound at Nationals Park. The left-hander had a 2.58 ERA through seven starts but has struggled during his last two, giving up five runs on 10 hits over 2 1/3 innings on Sunday against Arizona. Things have been trending in a better direction for Scherzer as the St. Louis-area native and University of Missouri product prepares for a rematch against a club he kept scoreless for seven innings at Busch Stadium on May 1. The right-hander allowed seven runs to the Cubs in his next outing but six total over the following three, with 38 strikeouts, including his 20-K effort on May 11.

“I’m just kind of getting in midseason form,” Scherzer said after holding the Marlins to two runs over eight innings in …

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