Abrams Triple Breaks It Open as Washington Rolls 10-4
CJ Abrams went 3-for-5 with 3 RBI and 2 runs scored, and Washington blew a tied game open with a six-run 11th inning to beat Philadelphia 10-4. The story of the night was a game that refused to stay decided — tied twice, knotted again in extra innings — before Abrams finally ended the drama with one swing.
Washington drew first blood in the first when Ruiz singled to right and Abrams scored, but Philadelphia answered immediately. Arraez homered to right (385 feet) to tie it, then Crawford's sacrifice fly to center put the Phillies ahead 2-1. That lead held until the seventh, when Brady House launched a 404-foot shot to right center to knot it at two. Abrams followed with an RBI single to left, scoring Young and giving Washington a 3-2 edge — only for Stott to single to center and score Bohm to tie it again at three. This game had no interest in staying settled.
Extra innings brought more of the same. Washington pushed ahead 4-3 in the tenth when Nuñez walked to score Pinckney, but Turner answered immediately with a sacrifice fly to right that scored Hill and sent it to the 11th at 4-4. Philadelphia's win probability sat at 46% heading into that half-inning — a genuine coin flip. Then Abrams tripled to right, scoring both House and Young, and the win probability swung from 46% to 10% in a single at-bat, a 36-point shift that effectively ended the game. Mikolas followed with a sacrifice bunt that scored Abrams, Chaparro doubled to left to score two more, and Nuñez grounded out to shortstop to plate Ford. Six runs, four hits, and a blowout that had been a tied game three minutes earlier.
On the mound, Jake Irvin gave Washington 5.1 innings of work, allowing 3 hits and 2 earned runs with 3 strikeouts — a serviceable outing that kept his team in it. Andrew Painter went 4.0 innings for Philadelphia, giving up 3 hits and 1 earned run with 4 strikeouts, which looks like a solid enough line that his bullpen ultimately couldn't protect. Chaparro finished 1-for-3 with 2 RBI, and Young scored twice without recording a hit in his final at-bat. Washington appears to have gotten contributions up and down the lineup when it mattered most, and Philadelphia appears to have run out of answers the moment Abrams stepped in with runners on in the 11th.