{"id":758176,"date":"2026-07-22T04:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/758176\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T04:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:18:25","slug":"hunter-goodmans-go-ahead-homer-in-8th-inning-lifts-rockies-to-8-7-victory-over-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/758176\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Goodman&#8217;s go-ahead homer in 8th inning lifts Rockies to 8-7 victory over Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Hunter Goodman hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning to offset a pair of two-run shots by CJ Abrams, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Washington Nationals 8-7 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Beeter (3-3) gave up <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2079769680516899158?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Goodman&#8217;s 31st homer<\/a> \u2014 on a 3-2 pitch \u2014 before Jordan Romano struck out two in the ninth for his seventh save. Juan Mejia (3-6) worked a scoreless eighth for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Tena had a two-out single off Rockies starter Michael Lorenzen in the first and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nats_advisory\/status\/2079731092886601923?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abrams homered<\/a> for the third straight game for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Moniak hit an RBI single as Colorado answered with a four-run second against rookie opener Carson Palmquist. Troy Johnston added a sacrifice fly, and Jake McCarthy doubled in a run before scoring on a two-out single by rookie Cole Carrigg, who had three of Colorado&#8217;s 12 hits.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nationals\/status\/2079742930638532971?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abrams homered<\/a> again \u2014 his 24th \u2014 with Tena aboard to tie it 4-all in the third. Abrams has 78 RBIs to match the Cardinals&#8217; Jordan Walker for most in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Willi Castro hit a leadoff double in the third against Nationals reliever Miles Mikolas before scoring on Kyle Karros&#8217; groundout for a 5-4 lead.<\/p>\n<p>James Wood delivered a two-out, two-run double to put the Nationals ahead 6-5 and chase Lorenzen, who allowed six runs on seven hits in 3 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Goodman doubled and scored on a two-out single by TJ Rumfield to tie it in the fifth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rockies\/status\/2079756761146503659?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Moniak led off<\/a> the sixth with his 16th homer to put the Rockies ahead 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>Wood doubled in the seventh off Jimmy Herget before scoring on pinch-hitter Jorbit Vivas&#8217; sacrifice fly to tie it at 7.<\/p>\n<p>Palmquist was tagged for four runs and four hits over 1 2\/3 innings in his seventh big league appearance, and Mikolas gave up three runs on six hits in 3 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Nationals RHP Cade Cavalli (6-4, 3.78 ERA) starts Wednesday opposite Rockies RHP Gabriel Hughes (0-1, 3.14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Hunter Goodman hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth inning to offset a pair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,3573,11741,497,2280,16903,2092,3917,565,8162,1825,1098,4679,3539,7168,39318,371,3568,123,4,415,93941,9500,9501,9496,9497,83038,39139,39140,22860,22739,414,71,4222,129],"class_list":["post-758176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-carson-palmquist","tag-cj-abrams","tag-clayton-beeter","tag-gabriel-hughes","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-james-wood","tag-jimmy-herget","tag-jorbit-vivas","tag-jordan-romano","tag-jordan-walker","tag-jose-tena","tag-juan-mejia","tag-kyle-karros","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-mickey-moniak","tag-miles-mikolas","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-nationals-rockies-score-goodman","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-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","tag-product-40818-ap-virginia-sports-only","tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","tag-troy-johnston","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals","tag-willi-castro"],"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\/758176","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=758176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}