James Wood dominated and rolled in four points on Monday evening while the Washington Nationals Nationals dominated the Padres of San Diego 10-6.
Wood won Washington’s first victory against San Diego since June 2023 with a three-point circuit on the right-of-the-way pole at the top of the eighth to do it 9-3. It was the 22nd Homer of Wood, a former Padre prospect that the Nationals acquired three years ago in an eight players business who sent Juan Soto in the other direction.
Mitchell Parker (5-8) obtained the victory, granting six strokes and three points in six rounds and more with two goals on balls and a removal with the stick. It was just the third victory in 16 games for Washington and his second victory on the road in June.
Stephen Kolek (3-3) absorbed the loss, allowing five strokes and five points (four deserved) on 4 1/3 of sleeves. He walked one and withdrew five.
Kolek sailed through the first three rounds, granting only a step in advance in the third and withdrawing four. But the game turned negatively for him after having made a mistake to launch at two bases on the slow cj abrams cut to start the fourth.
Wood followed with a single to an hop on the wall of the left field, launching a four -point rally. Nathaniel Lowe added a single RBI, followed by the josh Bell sacrifice to Deep Center and a Brady House’s Single.
Manny Machado obtained San Diego on the board in his half of the fourth with a solo circuit in the center, his 13th of the season. But the Nationals made 6-1 in the fifth via the single of RBI of Luis Garcia, the lifter of the lifter Wandy Peralta and the single producer of Bell.
The Padres made a race in the sixth on a simple RBI two points from RBI by Gavin Sheets, then closed in 6-3 in the seventh on the head of the head of Jake Cronenworth in the center right, his sixth of the year.
Bell added a solo circuit to the second bridge on the left, its 10th, in the ninth of Washington. Fernando Tatis Jr. launched an explosion of three points in the left center in the ninth of San Diego to top the scoring.
– field level media