{"id":153877,"date":"2025-08-17T19:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153877\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T19:40:12","slug":"alec-bohm-homers-in-his-return-as-the-philadelphia-phillies-defeat-the-washington-nationals-11-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/153877\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Bohm homers in his return as the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Washington Nationals, 11-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Jhoan Duran, Harrison Bader excited to chase World Series with Phillies <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/65f37fa539f814bdbad80cd713d38088.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/video\/jhoan-duran-harrison-bader-excited-to-chase-world-series-with-phillies\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Jhoan Duran, Harrison Bader excited to chase World Series with Phillies<\/p>\n<p>          01:54<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alec Bohm hit a three-run home run in his return from the injured list, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Phillies\/status\/1957136123764920376\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Castellanos also went deep<\/a> and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Washington Nationals 11-9 on Sunday to earn a four-game series split.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/phillies-aaron-nola-pitching-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Right-hander Aaron Nola<\/a> also returned from the injured list to give up six runs in 2 1\/3 innings for the Phillies in his first big league appearance since May 14. NL East-leading Philadelphia had dropped four of its last five games.<\/p>\n<p>Paul DeJong hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning for last-place Washington, which fell to 18-36 in day games.<\/p>\n<p>Bohm had two hits in his first game since July 18, including a fourth-inning single that chased reliever PJ Poulin (0-1). Castellanos doubled off Orlando Ribalta, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Phillies\/status\/1957127404561781209\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weston Wilson followed with a two-run single<\/a> to make it 8-6.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner Banks (5-2) pitched 1 2\/3 scoreless innings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/phillies-closer-jhoan-duran-fine-right-ankle\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Jhoan Duran<\/a>, pitching for the first time since taking a line drive off his ankle Friday, got the last two outs for his 21st save and fifth with the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia scored an unearned run in the first and then capitalized when Jos\u00e9 Tena&#8217;s relay for a potential inning-ending double play in the second sailed out of play. The Phillies collected three consecutive singles before Bohm blasted Washington starter Mitchell Parker&#8217;s last pitch into the visitors&#8217; bullpen in left.<\/p>\n<p>Parker allowed six runs \u2014 five earned \u2014 in 1 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Nola retired seven of the first eight batters he faced before the next seven reached safely. His outing ended on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1957122917449245058\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tena&#8217;s double to tie it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ap25229598878384.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Aaron Nola throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, in Washington. \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Aaron Nola throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals on Aug. 17, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>                Nick Wass \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Duran struck out pinch hitter James Wood on a 101 mph fastball with one on to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Since going 3-1 with a 1.39 ERA in his first five starts, Parker is 4-12 with a 7.30 ERA in his last 20 outings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has not announced its pitching plans for Monday&#8217;s series opener at home against Seattle. Washington continues its homestand Tuesday when RHP Jake Irvin (8-7, 5.14 ERA) faces the New York Mets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jhoan Duran, Harrison Bader excited to chase World Series with Phillies Jhoan Duran, Harrison Bader excited to chase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1884,1448,2830,1311,2083,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1291],"class_list":{"0":"post-153877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115045808693582661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153877","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=153877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}