{"id":727089,"date":"2026-06-16T02:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/727089\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:57:25","slug":"garcia-and-crews-key-5-run-5th-inning-as-nationals-beat-royals-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/727089\/","title":{"rendered":"Garc\u00eda and Crews key 5-run 5th inning as Nationals beat Royals 7-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. hit a go-ahead single, Dylan Crews added a three-run homer and the Washington Nationals scored five times in the fifth inning to beat the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Washington (38-35) has won seven of 10 and moved three games over .500 for the first time since 2019, when the Nationals won the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda&#8217;s two-run single in the fifth gave the Nationals a 4-3 lead. Three batters later, Crews launched <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nationals\/status\/2066676519506792836?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">a drive to left field<\/a> for his fourth homer this season.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Mead got Washington on the board in the third with a two-out single that bounced off the glove of Royals second baseman Nick Loftin and into center field for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Lord (5-0) threw three innings in relief and allowed two runs on two hits while striking out two. Nationals starter Andrew Alvarez gave up one run in four innings, striking out five.<\/p>\n<p>Starling Marte scored for Kansas City in the fourth on Carter Jensen&#8217;s infield single, and Maikel Garcia added a two-run single single in the fifth that gave the Royals a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City starter Mitch Spence (0-1) was charged with six runs and seven hits in four-plus innings.<\/p>\n<p>Royals RHP Michael Wacha (4-5, 3.58 ERA) starts Tuesday against Nationals LHP Foster Griffin (7-2, 3.46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. hit a go-ahead single, Dylan Crews added a three-run homer and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[43881,5,1902,6524,566,55398,936,2123,55,2596,2595,2098,2162,5169,4916,4,90749,15108,9500,9501,9496,9497,39139,83589,82856,39140,22860,252,1420],"class_list":["post-727089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-andrew-alvarez","tag-baseball","tag-brad-lord","tag-curtis-mead","tag-dylan-crews","tag-foster-griffin","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-luis-garcia","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mitch-spence","tag-mlb","tag-nationals-royals-score","tag-nick-loftin","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","tag-product-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40818-ap-virginia-sports-only","tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","tag-royals","tag-starling-marte"],"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\/727089","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=727089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}