2024 Season
Washington Nationals (56-69) Philadelphia Phillies (73-51)
First: 1:36 PM - Attendance: 40,677 - Game Time: 2 hours, 59 minutes
Winning Pitcher: Jacob Barnes (7-2) 3.35 ERA - Pitches 22 / Strikes 15
Losing Pitcher: Matt Strahm (4-2) 2.27 ERA - Pitches 22 / Strikes 16
Saving Pitcher: Kyle Finnegan - Save #31 - 3.60 ERA Pitches 8 / Strikes 8
Jake Irvin's Outing: Pitched six innings, with 5 K's Pitches 100 - Strikes 66 (gave up eight hits and four runs.
Philadelphia, PA - On this last trip of the season to the city of brotherly love, our Nationals set out to halt a four-game losing skid and avoid a series sweep as they played this final game of the series.
Citizens Bank Park can be a challenging stadium for visiting players, but this Sunday afternoon, the Nationals would not be denied the Curly W. More specifically, Keibert Ruiz and Alex Call have had success against the Phillies in this series, each homering in two games of this series, including Sunday afternoon’s 6-4 victory.
Ruiz slugged three home runs, two on Thursday and one on Sunday, while Call went deep on Saturday and Sunday as the Nationals snapped a four-game losing streak and avoided a series sweep.
Ruiz’s Statcast-estimated 386-foot home run to right field on Sunday off right-hander Taijuan Walker was notable for more than driving in Wood to tie the game.
Ruiz's home run was on a high and outside pitch 4.07 feet off the ground and 0.62 feet from the center of home plate. He and teammate CJ Abrams are the only two left-handed batters in the Statcast era (since 2015) to pull home runs on pitches that were at least that high and that far outside. (Abrams was on Aug. 6 on a pitch 4.42 feet high and 0.65 feet from the center of home plate against the Giants).
Worth Mentioning: The only other Nationals player (2005-present) to hit a higher pitch for a home run was Kyle Schwarber ( as a Nationals) at 4.18 feet on June 13, 2021, against San Francisco.
Ruiz’s three homers in the series are his first in a three-game span since May 30-June 2, 2023.
Call has been on fire since being called up from Triple-A on July 29; he gave the Nationals the lead on a 397-foot solo shot off Walker in the fifth. Currently, Call is batting .356 with 13 runs scored, 14 RBIs, and a .986 OPS in 26 games back in the Majors.
After losing Saturday's game with a Phillies walk-off, James Wood had a monster Insurance run (5) for us in the 9th inning, his first pull-side homer. Wood pummeled a 97.8 mph fastball from right-hander Jeff Hoffman, a projected 417 feet at 107.5 mph, to right-center field.
Wood has five home runs on the season and a .660 slugging percentage in his last 15 games.
The Nationals return home from this road trip with their first win at Citizens Bank Park since Aug. 8, 2023.
Coming Up next: Tuesday starts a 3-game series with the Colorado Rockies: Probable Pitching Matchup.
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