{"id":225536,"date":"2026-06-23T04:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225536\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:47:15","slug":"brandon-marsh-homers-but-philadelphia-phillies-offense-struggles-in-loss-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225536\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Marsh homers, but Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; offense struggles in loss to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis Mead and Luis Garcia Jr. homered, Foster Griffin pitched 7 1\/3 strong innings and the Nationals beat the Phillies 4-1 on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series between the division rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Crews, James Wood and Keibert Ruiz each had a double and a single for Washington, which had lost three of four.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin (8-2) gave up a run on four hits and struck out nine without a walk. He has gone five or more innings and allowed one earned run in each of his past four starts.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Beeter pitched the ninth for his sixth save.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Marsh homered for Philadelphia, which had won two straight and four of six.<\/p>\n<p>The start of the game was delayed one hour and 32 minutes by rain.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper, who went a combined 12 for 17 over their past two games with six homers (four by Schwarber) went 2 for 8 with Harper singling twice.<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s CJ Abrams saw his home run streak end at three games. Nasim Nu\u00f1ez singled twice and has hit safely in eight straight games and reached base safely in a career-high 14 straight.<\/p>\n<p>Marsh&#8217;s homer in the seventh pulled the Phillies within 2-1, but Wood singled and Mead followed with a two-run shot in the bottom half. <\/p>\n<p>Wood doubled leading off the first against opener Tim Mayza and scored on a single by Crews.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia homered off Alan Rangel with one out in the second to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Mayza (2-2) allowed one run in one inning and bulk reliever Rangel, recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley, allowed a run on five hits over five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s Jes\u00fas Luzardo (6-4, 4.20 ERA) pitches the second game of the series, while the Nationals will start Zack Littell (6-6, 5.45).<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curtis Mead and Luis Garcia Jr. homered, Foster Griffin pitched 7 1\/3 strong innings and the Nationals beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11258,4607,11199,69,71,70,1425,726,29829],"class_list":["post-225536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bryce-harper","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}