Houston at Washington — MLB July 8, 2026

2 – 8

Final

Nationals Park, Washington, DC

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
HOU	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	8	0
WAS	0	0	2	3	3	0	0	0		8	9	1

Decisions

Win F. Griffin WAS

7.0 IP · 5 H · 1 ER · 9 K · 2.77 ERA

Loss S. Arrighetti HOU

4.0 IP · 7 H · 8 ER · 2 K · 4.50 ERA

Recap

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	HOU	WAS
Bottom 3rd CJ Abrams out on a sacrifice fly to left fielder Zach Dezenzo. James Wood scores.	0	1
Bottom 3rd Daylen Lile doubles (21) on a line drive to left fielder Zach Dezenzo. Luis García Jr. scores.	0	2
Bottom 4th Luis García Jr. homers (20) on a fly ball to right center field. Keibert Ruiz scores. James Wood scores.	0	5
Top 5th Brice Matthews singles on a line drive to center fielder Dylan Crews. Yainer Diaz scores.	1	5
Bottom 5th CJ Abrams homers (20) on a fly ball to right center field.	1	6
Bottom 5th José Tena grounds out to first baseman Christian Walker. Daylen Lile scores. Dylan Crews to 3rd. Jorbit Vivas to 2nd.	1	7
Bottom 5th Keibert Ruiz out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Brice Matthews. Dylan Crews scores.	1	8
Top 8th Nick Allen singles on a ground ball to shortstop CJ Abrams. Zach Dezenzo scores. Nick Allen to 2nd. Throwing error by shortstop CJ Abrams.	2	8

Closing line

Box score

Houston

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	K	AVG
J. Altuve 2B	4	0	0	0	2	.231
Y. Alvarez DH	4	0	0	0	2	.310
I. Paredes 3B	4	0	2	0	1	.253
C. Walker 1B	4	0	1	0	0	.242
C. Smith RF	4	0	0	0	2	.220
Y. Diaz C	4	1	1	0	1	.242
B. Matthews CF	4	0	1	1	1	.200
Z. Dezenzo LF	3	1	2	0	1	.222
N. Allen SS	3	0	1	0	0	.244
Totals		2	8		10

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
S. Arrighetti L	4.0	7	8	8	6	2	94
A. Santa	2.0	1	0	0	1	0	38
N. Pearson	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	18
C. Javier	1.0	1	0	0	2	0	30

Washington

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
J. Wood RF	2	2	0	0	3	1	.269
L. García Jr. 1B	4	2	3	3	1	0	.291
C. Mead 3B	3	0	0	0	2	1	.240
C. Abrams SS	3	1	1	2	1	0	.276
D. Lile LF	5	1	2	1	0	0	.252
D. Crews CF	4	1	1	0	1	0	.226
J. Vivas 2B	3	0	1	0	2	0	.249
J. Tena DH	4	0	0	1	0	1	.234
K. Ruiz C	3	1	1	1	0	0	.280
Totals		8	9		10	3