{"id":701874,"date":"2026-05-18T03:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:15:16","slug":"gunnar-henderson-hits-10th-hr-for-1st-of-4-hits-in-orioles-7-3-win-over-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701874\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunnar Henderson hits 10th HR for 1st of 4 hits in Orioles&#8217; 7-3 win over Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Gunnar Henderson hit his 10th homer and was 4 for 5 with two RBIs to help the Baltimore Orioles avoid a series sweep with a 7-3 victory over the Washington Nationals on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/2056067697092268210?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">homered<\/a> into the third deck in right field off opener Richard Lovelady (2-2) for a 1-0 lead two batters into the game. The 24-year-old shortstop hit his ninth double to drive in an insurance run in the ninth, capping his fifth career four-hit game.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/2056074291985125495?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coby Mayo greeted<\/a> Miles Mikolas with his fifth homer \u2014 a two-run shot in the second for a 3-0 lead, and Pete Alonso&#8217;s sacrifice fly made it 4-1 in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Colton <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/2056082039317688499?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cowser homered<\/a> for the first time in 111 plate appearances dating to Sept. 23 against the Rays \u2014 a two-run shot in the fourth for a 6-1 advantage. It was the first hit for Cowser off a breaking ball this season.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Nunez (2-0) relieved Orioles starter Brandon Young with two outs and the bases loaded in the fourth inning. He struck out Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. to keep it 6-2, then struck out two more in the fifth to get the win. Young allowed two runs on five hits, walking three in 3 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Yennier Cano pitched a scoreless eighth before Rico Garcia closed it out in the ninth and surrendered his second hit in 20 innings \u2014 a one-out double by Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Young hit his career-high fifth homer for the Nationals to cut it to 3-1 in the second. He started the season with five homers in 303 games.<\/p>\n<p>Keibert Ruiz added a sac fly and CJ Abrams singled in a run off Tyler Wells in his two innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore had not scored a run before the seventh inning in the first two losses. It was the first time the Orioles scored in four straight innings to begin a game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Orioles LHP Trevor Rogers (2-4, 5.77) was set to start Monday night at Tampa Bay opposite LHP Shane McClanahan (4-2, 2.27). The Nationals haven&#8217;t announced a starting pitcher Monday night at home against the Nerw York Mets and RHP Christian Scott (0-0, 3.45).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Gunnar Henderson hit his 10th homer and was 4 for 5 with two RBIs to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2374],"tags":[14169,143,47,2538,5,796,68701,497,583,1125,916,6287,2101,2098,123,4,125,88230,9500,9501,74,9496,9497,39139,22860,24906,28982,5720,9009,1275,4962],"class_list":{"0":"post-701874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-anthony-nunez","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-brandon-young","14":"tag-christian-scott-atunde-adjuah","15":"tag-cj-abrams","16":"tag-coby-mayo","17":"tag-colton-cowser","18":"tag-gunnar-henderson","19":"tag-jacob-young","20":"tag-keibert-ruiz","21":"tag-luis-garcia","22":"tag-miles-mikolas","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-orioles","25":"tag-orioles-nationals-score","26":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","27":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","28":"tag-pete-alonso","29":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","30":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","31":"tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","32":"tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","33":"tag-richard-lovelady","34":"tag-rico-garcia","35":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","36":"tag-trevor-rogers","37":"tag-tyler-wells","38":"tag-yennier-cano"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701874","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=701874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}