Atlanta Braves at Washington Nationals

ATL 7 — WSH 2

Final — 2026-04-23

Game MVP: J. Ritchie — 7.0 IP, 7 K, 2 ER

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
ATL	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	0	1	7	14	0
WSH	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0

WP J. Ritchie (1-0)

LP Cionel Perez (1-3)

Scoring Plays

Bot 1: Wood homered to right (387 feet). (1-0)

Top 4: Albies hit sacrifice fly to right, Olson scored, Riley to third. (1-1)

Top 4: Harris II singled to center, Riley scored. (1-2)

Bot 4: Abrams homered to center (426 feet). (2-2)

Top 7: Baldwin scored on Varland wild pitch, Riley to second on wild pitch by Varland, Olson to third on wild pitch by Varland. (2-3)

Top 7: Albies singled to right, Olson scored and Riley scored. (2-5)

Top 7: Harris II doubled to center, Albies scored. (2-6)

Top 9: Albies homered to right center (396 feet). (2-7)

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
J. Ritchie	7.0	5	2	2	2	7	2	89-54	2.57	W, 1-0
Dylan Lee	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	13-8	0.75
C. Carrasco	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	10-8	0.00

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Cade Cavalli	5.0	7	2	2	0	10	0	85-62	4.01
Richard Lovelady	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	11-9	3.18
Cionel Perez	0.1	1	3	3	2	1	0	20-8	8.25	L, 1-3
Gus Varland	0.2	3	1	1	0	1	0	13-10	3.86
Julian Fernandez	2.0	2	1	1	0	2	1	30-20	6.75

Venue: Nationals Park, Washington, District of Columbia (14,613)

Umpires: Home Plate Umpire: Chris Segal, First Base Umpire: Erich Bacchus, Second Base Umpire: Laz Diaz, Third Base Umpire: Brian O'Nora

Broadcast: BRVN | NATV