{"id":678211,"date":"2026-04-18T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678211\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:45:16","slug":"nationals-fall-to-giants-in-return-from-successful-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678211\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals fall to Giants in return from successful road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XDU2FOXFEBER7P5LWZVMYSK66Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">By the time Zack Littell walked off the mound at Nationals Park after the fourth inning Friday, head hung low and shoulders slumped, the damage had already been done.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3CLMIGW34VDLJPV62RQJA6BGRY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The veteran right-hander allowed eight runs on 11 hits, putting the Washington Nationals in a hole they couldn\u2019t climb out of as the San Francisco Giants took the opener of the three-game series, 10-5. After a 5-2 road trip with a sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers and a split with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Nationals (9-11) began their homestand by once again having to confront their pitching woes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time Zack Littell walked off the mound at Nationals Park after the fourth inning Friday, head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-678211","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\/116424600746967946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678211","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=678211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}