{"id":677355,"date":"2026-04-17T03:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:50:38","slug":"mlb-today-nats-beat-pirates-in-10-os-avoid-being-no-hit-lose-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677355\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Today: Nats beat Pirates in 10; O&#8217;s avoid being no-hit, lose 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/baseball.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-no-lazy=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/baseball.jpg\" alt=\"baseball\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo: \u00a9 chris3d (Generated with AI)\/stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Nationals, would you believe, lead the Majors, through 19 games, with 14 games of 5+ runs, after beating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-7, in 10 innings on Thursday, to wrap a four-game series in Steel City.<\/p>\n<p>If only they could pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The Nats (9-10) broke a 7-7 tie in the top of the 10th on an RBI single from James Wood (.256 BA\/.902 OPS, 5 HRs, 15 RBIs), who was 2-for-6 on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Washington: a homestand that begins on Friday with the San Francisco Giants (7-12).<\/p>\n<p>As the Nats were wrapping a four-game set, Baltimore was opening a fresh one up in Cleveland, in a game that saw Parker Messick take a no-hitter into the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019s knocked Messick (3-0, 1.05 ERA) with a pair of singles to lead off the ninth, and actually had the tying run in scoring position, and Samuel Basallo hitting a 97.1 mph-grounder to second that could have tied the game up.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Brito made the diving stop, retired Basallo, and the Guardians (11-9) held on for the 4-2 win over the Orioles (9-11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: \u00a9 chris3d (Generated with AI)\/stock.adobe.com The Washington Nationals, would you believe, lead the Majors, through 19 games,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-677355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pirates","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116418020203695436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677355","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=677355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}