{"id":572778,"date":"2026-04-08T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572778\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:59:08","slug":"cardinals-6-1-nationals-apr-8-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572778\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals 6-1 Nationals (Apr 8, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON — \u2014 Jordan Walker<\/a> homered for the third consecutive game, Michael McGreevy<\/a> earned his first victory of the season, and the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> defeated the Washington Nationals<\/a> 6-1 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Alec Burleson<\/a> had three hits and drove in three runs for St. Louis, which won two of three against the Nationals and finished 3-3 on a road trip that began in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Miles Mikolas<\/a>, who made two All-Star appearances while pitching for St. Louis from 2018-25, surrendered two runs in three innings in his first outing against the Cardinals as Washington lost for the seventh time in eight games.<\/p>\n

Walker continued his strong start, ripping Brad Lord\u2019s full-count slider<\/a> to center in the fifth inning. The 23-year-old has five homers in 49 plate appearances in St. Louis\u2019 first 12 games after hitting six in 396 trips to the plate last year.<\/p>\n

After the Nationals\u2019 Cionel Perez<\/a> walked the first two batters in the seventh, Burleson singled in a run to make it 4-1. Yohel Pozo<\/a> added a two-run single in the ninth.<\/p>\n

McGreevy (1-1) yielded a run on four hits in six innings to lower his ERA to 2.16. The right-hander struck out one but retired the last 11 batters he faced, including seven consecutive groundouts to end his outing.<\/p>\n

Mikolas (0-3) allowed eight of the 17 hitters he faced to reach safely and was lifted after throwing 55 pitches. But Burleson\u2019s two-run single in the second accounted for the Cardinals\u2019 only scoring against the right-hander.<\/p>\n

Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. drove in Washington\u2019s run on a grounder in the third.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

After a day off Thursday, St. Louis opens a three-game series at home against Boston. RHP Dustin May<\/a> (0-2, 15.95 ERA) makes his third start for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Washington is also off Thursday. RHP Jake Irvin<\/a> (1-1, 8.00) starts Friday as the Nationals begin a road trip in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON — \u2014 Jordan Walker homered for the third consecutive game, Michael McGreevy earned his first victory of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-572778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}