{"id":146624,"date":"2025-08-15T02:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146624\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:11:16","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-lose-third-straight-in-series-opener-vs-washington-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/146624\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies lose third straight in series opener vs. Washington Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-philadelphia-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jose Tena hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the seventh inning, Paul DeJong homered for the third time in five games and the Washington Nationals rallied past the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>DeJong walked leading off the seventh against Jesus Luzardo (11-6). Riley Adams doubled, Daylen Lile walked and, with one out, Tena singled past the drawn-in infield against Orion Kerkering to put Washington ahead 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Shinnosuke Ogasawara (1-1) struck out Kyle Schwarber with a runner on to end the seventh and got his first major league win. Rookie Cole Henry worked the ninth and fanned Trea Turner with a runner on third to secure his first career save.<\/p>\n<p>Turner had three infield hits for the National League East-leading Phillies, who have lost three straight while scoring three runs. Philadelphia left eight men on base.<\/p>\n<p>Luzardo allowed three runs on four hits in six-plus innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies didn&#8217;t arrive in Washington until early Thursday afternoon after maintenance issues necessitated a change in planes and an overnight stay in Cincinnati after Wednesday night&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>DeJong homered on the first pitch he saw from Luzardo in the fourth to tie it at 1-all.<\/p>\n<p>Turner singled with two outs in the fifth and scored on Schwarber&#8217;s double off the wall in center.<\/p>\n<p>Washington starter Brad Lord allowed two runs on seven hits over six innings. Since returning to the rotation on July 22, Lord has a 2.77 ERA and Washington is 4-1 in his starts.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Tena hit a hard grounder the opposite way on a 3-1 fastball and got it past the diving Turner at shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>DeJong has hit safely in five straight, going 9 for 21 (.429) with three homers and seven RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Phillies RHP Zack Wheeler (10-5, 2.68 ERA) opposes Nationals LHP MacKenzie Gore (5-12, 4.09) on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Philadelphia Live Jose Tena hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the seventh inning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,8321,1884,1448,2830,1311,2083,62,3695,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1291,3683],"class_list":{"0":"post-146624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-kyle-schwarber","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-trea-turner","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-washington-nationals","24":"tag-zack-wheeler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115030359057759436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}