{"id":235162,"date":"2026-07-04T02:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235162\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:34:13","slug":"nationals-hit-5-home-runs-in-win-over-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235162\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals hit 5 home runs in win over Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. and Daylen Lile each homered twice, and Jos\u00e9 Tena also went deep for Washington as the Nationals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-5 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Foster Griffin (9-2) allowed a run and four hits in five innings, lowering his ERA to 2.87 for the Nationals. Washington has won five of six.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Reynolds homered for Pittsburgh. Mitch Keller (6-6) allowed five runs and eight hits in six innings.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature at game time was 100 degrees, and the ball was certainly carrying. Garc\u00eda opened the scoring in the first with his 17th homer of the season, a solo shot to right. An inning later, Lile hit a 417-foot drive to center to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds&#8217; solo homer to center in the third went 426 feet to get the Pirates on the board, but after James Wood led off the bottom half with a triple, Tena hit a two-run shot \u2014 also to center \u2014 that went 434 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Lile&#8217;s RBI double later that inning made it 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda connected again in the seventh, hitting a two-run shot off reliever Isaac Mattson. Lile&#8217;s second homer was a two-run drive in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Lowe, Reynolds and Esmerlyn Valdez hit consecutive RBI doubles in the ninth for the Pirates, and Nick Gonzales added another one an out later.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin improved to 5-0 in his last nine starts, with the Nationals going 8-1 in those games. He&#8217;s allowed one run or fewer in six straight outings, although he had only two strikeouts Friday, his fewest since April 11.<\/p>\n<p>Zack Littell (7-6, 5.29 ERA) starts for Washington against Pittsburgh&#8217;s Braxton Ashcraft (8-3, 3.33) on Saturday in a July 4 game set to start at 11:05 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. and Daylen Lile each homered twice, and Jos\u00e9 Tena also went deep for Washington as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11199,73,75,74,10997,726,29829],"class_list":["post-235162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235162","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=235162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}