Philadelphia Phillies at Washington Nationals

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Philadelphia Phillies

95-67, 41-40 Away

Final
6 - 3

Washington Nationals

71-91, 38-43 Home

Nola earns 14th victory as NL East champion Phillies beat the Nationals 6-3 in regular-season finale

The Phillies have a bye in the first round of the playoffs and will face either NL Central champion Milwaukee or the NL’s third wild card in a division series scheduled to start Saturday in Philadelphia.

“I was really happy with the way we finished,” Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson said.

Luis García Jr. homered in the first inning for Washington, which went 71-91 for the second straight season.

“Nobody wants to go home at this time of year,” Washington manager Dave Martinez said. “You want to keep playing, but the effort was definitely there this year and they played hard. Our young guys got better and they are going to continue to get better. Good things to come.”

Nola (14-8) allowed three runs in five-plus innings and struck out seven. A day after teammate Zack Wheeler ended his regular season with 200 innings pitched, Nola came within two outs of matching the feat. The 31-year-old right-hander was lifted after giving up a leadoff triple to Dylan Crews in the sixth.

“It’s a goal every year to get to 200-plus,” Nola said. “It didn’t work out, but that’s all right. One of our goals was to win the division and we did that and finish the last game of the season off strong in a good way with a win.”

Phillies reliever José Ruiz loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth before striking out García and James Wood. Kody Clemens then hauled in Juan Yepez’s long fly to left, ending the game and sealing Ruiz’s first save in 264 career appearances.

The Phillies loaded the bases with no outs in the first against Jake Irvin before Bryson Stott and Alec Bohm had back-to-back RBI groundouts.

Philadelphia didn’t have another baserunner until the fifth, when it again loaded the bases. Schwarber poked a two-run single to left, and two batters later, Wilson ripped a two-run double to right to end Irvin’s outing.

Irvin (10-14), who passed teammate Patrick Corbin for the NL lead in losses, allowed six runs and struck out three in 4 1/3 innings.

García and Yepez had RBI singles in the fifth against Nola.

Philadelphia rested regulars Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto. Nick Castellanos became the first member of the Phillies to play in 162 games in a season since Freddy Galvis in 2017. Castellanos was lifted in the second inning.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Phillies: Thomson said RHP Carlos Estévez was unavailable because of illness. … OF Austin Hays (sore back) was out of the lineup for the second consecutive day. … OF Johan Rojas (illness) remained away from the team. … Philadelphia recalled INF Buddy Kennedy from the team’s spring training complex and optioned LHP Tyler Gilbert to the spring training complex.

ATTENDANCE BUMP

Washington’s season attendance was 1,967,302, a 5.4% increase over its 2023 total of 1,865,832.

Phillies: Philadelphia will have an intrasquad scrimmage Wednesday before hosting the opener of the NLDS on Saturday against either Milwaukee or the NL’s third wild card.

Nationals: Open spring training games on Feb. 22 against Houston in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Matchup Prediction

Nationals: 39.9%

Phillies: 60.1%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Yepez flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Wood struck out looking.
	9th Inning	L. García Jr. struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Baker singled to left, Young to second, Millas to third.
	9th Inning	Baker hit for Nuñez
	9th Inning	Young walked, Millas to second.

Statistics

PHI		WSH
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
15	Ground Balls	12
6	Strikeouts	14
6	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	11
1	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	3
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	37
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	20
0	Triples	1
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
13	Fly Balls	11
1	Caught Stealing	1
120	Pitches	162
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
10	Total Bases	16
38	Plate Appearances	39
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
1	Extra Base Hits	2
3.3	Runs Created	5.1
.265	Batting Average	.297
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.500
.294	Slugging Percentage	.432
.118	Secondary Average	.162
.342	On Base Percentage	.333
.636	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.766
1.2	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.1
3.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.1
36.0	Batter Rating	29.5
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	37.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
3.16	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.15
.029	Isolated Power	.135
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.07
.079	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.026
-.147	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.135
12.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.5
83.3	MLB Rating	82.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0