{"id":668459,"date":"2026-04-07T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668459\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:07:16","slug":"james-wood-nationals-strive-to-continue-power-surge-vs-cards-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/668459\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wood, Nationals strive to continue power surge vs. Cards – Field Level Media – Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis will try to cool off James Wood on Tuesday night when the Cardinals visit the Washington Nationals in the middle contest of their three-game series.<\/p>\n

Wood hit a three-run homer in Washington\u2019s six-run eighth inning as the Nationals snapped a five-game skid by rallying for a 9-6 win Monday night. It was Wood\u2019s second three-run homer in as many days.<\/p>\n

He added a single, two walks and scored twice on Monday. Wood also made a huge impact in right field, racing toward the corner and making a leaping catch at the wall to rob a home run from Nolan Gorman in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals will send left-hander Matthew Liberatore (0-0, 1.64 ERA) to the mound Tuesday against Washington right-hander Cade Cavalli (0-0, 2.79) in a matchup of Opening Day starters.<\/p>\n

Liberatore has allowed two runs \u2014 both on solo homers \u2014 in 11 innings thus far. Last time out, he gave up one run on three hits over six innings against the New York Mets on Wednesday. He had a no-decision in his team\u2019s 2-1 victory in 11 innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel really good, and I\u2019m definitely happy about the results so far,\u201d Liberatore said. \u201cThere is definitely some stuff that I would like to improve on, but that\u2019s always going to be the case with me. But I feel like I\u2019m doing a really good job now of pitching with what I\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liberatore is 0-0 with a 14.73 ERA in three career relief appearances against the Nationals.<\/p>\n

Cavalli was roughed up a bit by the Chicago Cubs on Opening Day, but most recently he worked six innings against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday and gave up one run on five hits in his team\u2019s 6-5 loss in 10 innings. <\/p>\n

On Monday night, the Cardinals\u2019 Jordan Walker homered leading off the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie vs. Washington. Before the inning was over, St. Louis had added two more runs to take a 6-3 lead.<\/p>\n

But Wood, Brady House and CJ Abrams homered in a six-run eighth inning, and the Nationals closed out the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a credit to our guys,\u201d Washington manager Blake Butera said. \u201cThey\u2019ve played this way all along. They haven\u2019t given up. They find ways to scratch runs across whatever inning it might be. \u2026 They fight back and find a way to pull this one out and get us back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n

House collected three hits and improved his batting average to .333.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll around outstanding game from Brady,\u201d Butera said of his 22-year-old third baseman. \u201cHad some hard right-on-right matchups, where he hit the home run, the double. Just couldn\u2019t be more impressed with Brady, especially a kid that young.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramon Urias had three hits, including a homer, for the Cardinals. Walker had a homer and a single, and left fielder Thomas Saggese had two hits and threw a runner out at home to complete a 7-2 double play.<\/p>\n

But Cardinals pitchers walked seven batters, and the bullpen surrendered seven runs in three innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou regroup,\u201d manager Oliver Marmol said after the game. \u201cYou point out the things we did well, and then, no different than any other day, you circle back to the things we can make some improvements on and keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis will try to cool off James Wood on Tuesday night when the Cardinals visit the Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-668459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nationals","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-nationals","13":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116363818984873519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668459","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=668459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}