{"id":150327,"date":"2025-07-04T02:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/150327\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T02:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:07:15","slug":"wood-has-career-high-five-hits-including-23rd-hr-nationals-beat-tigers-11-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/150327\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood has career-high five hits including 23rd HR, Nationals beat Tigers 11-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 James Wood had a career-high five hits including his 23rd home run hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/home-run-derby-mlb-026a7c3abb59c84cfc79447fd0a8080d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:being named to the Home Run Derby;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">being named to the Home Run Derby<\/a>, Jake Irvin survived a rocky first to pitch six solid innings, and the Washington Nationals beat the Detroit Tigers 11-7 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wood also had four singles, two RBIs and scored three runs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Alex Call had three hits for Washington, which has won three of four. Paul DeJong, in his third game back from the injured list, added a three-run homer.<\/p>\n<p>After allowing three runs and three hits in the first, Irvin (7-3) tossed five scoreless innings and did not allow another hit.<\/p>\n<p>It was career win No. 500 for Nationals manager Dave Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit rallied late as Gleyber Torres and Wenceel Perez had RBI singles in the seventh. Parker Meadows singled home a run in the eighth and another scored on Javier Baez&#8217;s ground out to make it 9-7. However, Luis Garcia Jr. and Call had RBI singles in the bottom half.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Torkelson hit a three-run homer for the AL-leading Tigers, who are 8-8 over their past 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>Dietrich Enns (1-1) allowed eight runs and eight hits in four-plus innings for Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>With two on and two out in the first, Torkelson ended a 10-pitch at-bat with his 19th home run.<\/p>\n<p>Washington rallied in the first as Call&#8217;s bases-loaded singled brought home two runs and DeJong followed with a three-run homer.<\/p>\n<p>Wood made it 6-3 with a solo shot in the second and added an RBI single in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>After Detroit cut it to 9-7, Wood led off the bottom of the eighth with a single and Washington eventually added two insurance runs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Wood is hitting .361 (30 for 83) with three doubles, seven homers, 22 RBIs and 20 runs scored over his past 22 games.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Tigers RHP Reese Olson (4-3, 2.96 ERA) is expected to be activated from the injured list and start the series opener at Cleveland against Indians RHP Slade Cecconi (3-3, 3.64). Nationals RHP Mike Soroka (3-5, 4.70) goes against Red Sox RHP Lucas Giolito (4-3, 3.99).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 James Wood had a career-high five hits including his 23rd home run hours after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[909,5,135,53,12018,95,496,565,1329,585,5860,4,415,1402,1226,89,768,2099,9113,314,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-150327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-alex-call","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-dietrich-enns","13":"tag-gleyber-torres","14":"tag-jake-irvin","15":"tag-james-wood","16":"tag-javier-baez","17":"tag-lucas-giolito","18":"tag-mike-soroka","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-nationals","21":"tag-parker-meadows","22":"tag-paul-dejong","23":"tag-red-sox","24":"tag-reese-olson","25":"tag-scoreless-innings","26":"tag-slade-cecconi","27":"tag-spencer-torkelson","28":"tag-washington","29":"tag-washington-nationals","30":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114792526256064744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}