(CHICAGO, IL) — April 26, 2026 — After nine innings of scoreless baseball, the Nationals plated two runs in the top of the tenth inning to earn a series win over the White Sox.

Nationals starting pitcher Foster Griffin was brilliant on the mound, putting together a career day. Griffin’s Chicago counterpart, Sean Burke, was just as good, allowing three hits over 7 1/3 innings on just 76 pitches.

When Griffin signed with the Nationals last offseason after spending three seasons pitching in Japan’s professional league, Nippon Professional Baseball, expectations weren’t exactly high for the 30-year-old southpaw. But through six games, Griffin sports an impressive 2.67 earned run average and has allowed just over one baserunner per inning.

Additionally, Griffin has become just the fourth Nationals pitcher since 2019 to record back-to-back quality starts, per Ryan Shenker.

Sunday’s start was Griffin’s best in a Nationals uniform, working efficiently, averaging just 13.6 pitches per inning and striking out eight White Sox hitters in seven innings of work.

With the game in a scoreless tie in the seventh inning, Griffin allowed hard contact for one of the first times all day — a deep fly ball to center field. But unfortunately for Chicago, Young, who is one of the best defenders in baseball, was stationed in center field.

It wasn't a home-run robbery, but it might as well have been. A double puts a White Sox runner on second with nobody out — and one run across the plate ends the series in Washington's loss column.

Tena finally got on the board in the home run category with a clutch solo shot to bring the Nationals’ lead to 2-0 in the 10th. It was the first pinch-hit, extra-inning home run in Nationals history in nearly a decade, according to the broadcast.

The homer ended a 0-for-13 streak for Tena, his first in over a week — and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The White Sox scored a run in the bottom half of the frame, making it the difference in the game.

“I just want to thank God for it,” Tena said through translator Mauricio Ortiz. “I just felt mentally prepared for that moment, and I made good contact.”

James Wood, CJ Abrams and Daylen Lile, the Nationals’ top three hitters in on-base plus slugging percentage with at least 90 at bats, combined to go 1 for 10 on the day.

The lone hit, a Wood single in the third, was the last Nationals baserunner before 15 men were retired consecutively.

The trio was quiet as a whole throughout the three-game series, tallying just three hits.

After 17 days in a row of baseball, the Nationals will have their first rest day tomorrow. The team will then travel to New York to take on the Mets, who enter the game as losers of 16 of their last 18 games. The series will start on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m. when Nationals starting pitcher Zach Littell takes the hill, squaring off with Clay Holmes.