{"id":667664,"date":"2026-04-07T04:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:36:35","slug":"wood-house-and-abrams-homer-in-8th-as-nationals-rally-for-9-6-win-over-cardinals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667664\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood, House and Abrams homer in 8th as Nationals rally for 9-6 win over Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 James Wood, Brady House and CJ Abrams homered during a six-run eighth inning, and the Washington Nationals rallied for a 9-6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wood <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2041326843303796951\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tied it with a three-run shot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;tied it with a three-run shot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">tied it with a three-run shot<\/a> against Ryne Stanek, House&#8217;s two-run homer off Matt Svanson (0-1) made it 8-6, and Abrams followed with a solo drive for his 500th career hit. The Nationals have scored 64 runs through their first 10 games, a franchise best and behind only the Dodgers and Brewers this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wood also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2041301840734638443\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:took away a potential homer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;took away a potential homer&quot;}\" class=\"link \">took away a potential homer<\/a> from Nolan Gorman with a leaping catch near the right-field corner in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Washington righty Zack Littell struck out six and allowed four hits and one run in five innings. His second-inning strikeout of Nolan Gorman was the 500th of his nine-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Cionel P\u00e9rez (1-1) threw a scoreless ninth and was awarded the win after Washington relievers Ken Waldichuk and Andre Granillo combined to allow three runs in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Ur\u00edas homered and drove in three runs for the Cardinals. His two-run blast in the sixth put the Cardinals ahead 3-2, and Jordan Walker&#8217;s solo shot in the eighth made it 4-3. Ur\u00edas also doubled in a run in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals starter Andre Pallante allowed two runs on three hits in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Nationals RHP Cade Cavalli (0-0, 2.79 ERA) starts opposite Cardinals LHP Matthew Liberatore (0-0, 1.64) as the series continues Tuesday.<\/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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 James Wood, Brady House and CJ Abrams homered during a six-run eighth inning, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[22908,1181,5,20666,136,8754,497,39,6468,9761,565,4679,7145,21751,1453,4,415,1893,8653,67,414,71,4222,5170],"class_list":{"0":"post-667664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-andre-granillo","9":"tag-andre-pallante","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brady-house","12":"tag-brewers","13":"tag-cionel-perez","14":"tag-cj-abrams","15":"tag-dodgers","16":"tag-eighth-inning","17":"tag-house","18":"tag-james-wood","19":"tag-jordan-walker","20":"tag-ken-waldichuk","21":"tag-matt-svanson","22":"tag-matthew-liberatore","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-nationals","25":"tag-nolan-gorman","26":"tag-ryne-stanek","27":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","28":"tag-washington","29":"tag-washington-nationals","30":"tag-washingtonnationals","31":"tag-zack-littell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116361572539168766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667664","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=667664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}