Wood went 3-for-5 with an RBI double, a two-run home run and two additional runs scored in Friday's 11-9 loss to Miami.
Wood put the Nationals on the board in the third inning, when he crushed a 451-foot, two-run home run off Edward Cabrera to center field. Following a two hour-plus rain delay, Wood added an RBI double and crossed home plate in the seventh and eighth, and he and CJ Abrams combined for six of Washington's 16 hits in the loss. Wood has recorded three hits in each of his last two games and has gone 9-for-17 (.529) over his last four games.
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Nationals' James Wood: Bangs out three hits in loss
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Wood went 3-for-4 with a run scored in Thursday's loss to the Mets.
All three hits were singles, but that was a team-wide problem as none of the Nationals' seven knocks on the day went for extra bases. Wood has shaken off a mini-slump to begin June by racking up six hits in the last three games, pushing his slash line on the season back up to .281/.374/.531 with 16 homers, nine steals, 39 runs and 45 RBI in 68 contests.
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Nationals' James Wood: Working through early-June slump
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Wood went 2-for-4 in Wednesday's 5-0 loss to the Mets.
Wood turned in his first multi-hit game of the month, as he's begun to cool down since the start of June. The 22-year-old outfielder is hitting just .167 across his last 30 at-bats (nine games) with a lone extra-base hit and RBI. Wood entered Wednesday with an incredible 58.1 percent hard-hit rate for the year, so the slugging prowess he displayed earlier in the season should re-emerge at some point.
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Nationals' James Wood: Belts 16th homer
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Wood went 1-for-4 with a walk and a solo home run in Friday's win over the Diamondbacks.
The 22-year-old outfielder led off the third inning by crushing a Merrill Kelly cutter over the fence in left-center field, Wood's fourth homer in the last six games and his 16th of the season. He's hit safely in 11 of the last 12 contests, a stretch in which Wood is slashing .364/.463/.795 with 13 runs and 18 RBI as the engine of a suddenly potent Nats offense that is averaging 5.8 runs during that 12-game stretch.
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Nationals' James Wood: Stays hot in Seattle
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Wood went 1-for-3 with two walks, a double, a run scored, two RBI and a stolen base in Thursday's extra-inning win over the Mariners.
Seattle did its best to pitch around the young phenom, but Wood still supplied plenty of production when he got a chance. Over his last 15 games, the 22-year-old is slashing .327/.415/.691 with five of his 15 homers and four of his nine steals on the season, while also piling up 14 runs and 19 RBI. Wood does carry a 29.2 percent strikeout rate during that span, but he can afford to whiff now and then given the way he crushes the ball when he makes contact -- he sits in the 99th percentile in MLB in hard-hit rate, the 96th percentile in both barrel rate and average exit velocity, and the 95th percentile in bat speed.
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Nationals' James Wood: Homers, swipes bag in victory
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Wood went 2-for-4 with a home run, a double, a walk, three total RBI and a stolen base in a 9-0 win against Seattle on Wednesday.
Wood's production all came in the latter half of the contest, as he slugged a 435-foot solo homer in the fifth inning, added a walk and steal in the seventh, and capped his performance with a two-run double in the eighth. The budding star already has 15 homers through 242 plate appearances after going deep nine times across 336 plate appearances as a rookie last year. Wood has added eight thefts, 40 RBI, 35 runs and a .287/.380/569 slash line in what is shaping up to be a breakout campaign.
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Nationals' James Wood: Provides lone run in loss
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Wood went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Tuesday's 9-1 loss to the Mariners.
Wood provided the Nationals' lone run when he took Logan Evans deep in the fourth inning. In his other three at-bats, Wood struck out. He's 12-for-37 (.324) over his last 10 games, adding three homers and 12 RBI, but he also has 14 strikeouts in that span. The outfielder is still performing pretty well overall, slashing .283/.376/.551 with 14 homers, 37 RBI, 34 runs scored and seven stolen bases over 54 contests this season.
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Nationals' James Wood: Slugs 13th homer
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Wood went 1-for-4 with a two-run home run in Saturday's 3-0 win over the Giants.
The 22-year-old took Kyle Harrison deep in the first inning, and it turned out to be all the offense the Nats would need. Wood has a .952 OPS in May and continues to march toward a breakout campaign, slashing .284/.380/.543 through 52 games this year with 13 homers, seven steals, 33 runs and 35 RBI.
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Nationals' James Wood: On base four times in win
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Wood went 2-for-3 with two walks, a double, two runs scored and three RBI in Thursday's extra-inning win over Atlanta.
It was the third straight multi-hit performance for Wood, who is slashing a blistering .356/.435/.548 through 19 games in May with three homers, four steals, 12 RBI and 13 runs. The 22-year-old outfielder's .934 OPS on the season puts him eighth in the National League, just behind projected MVP candidates Corbin Carroll (.945) and Kyle Tucker (.939).
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Nationals' James Wood: Drives in two runs
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Wood went 2-for-4 with a solo home run and an RBI single in Friday's 4-3 win over Baltimore.
Wood knocked in an RBI single in the sixth inning before tying things up at 3-3 in the eighth, when he took Keegan Akin deep to center field for a 421-foot solo homer. It was Wood's 11th multi-hit game of the season, and since the beginning of May he has slashed .317/379/.533 with two stolen bases, three home runs and six RBI over 66 plate appearances.
Wood went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Monday's 4-3 loss to Atlanta.
Wood put the Nationals on the board in the fifth inning, when he took Grant Holmes deep to left field for a 413-foot solo home run. It was Wood's 11th home run of the season, and he has already surpassed his long shot tally from the 2024 regular season (nine). Wood has gone 15-for-45 (.333) with two stolen bases, four runs scored two home runs and three RBI since the beginning of May.
Wood went 1-for-4 with a walk and a two-run home run in the first game of Tuesday's doubleheader against the Guardians.
The 22-year-old absolutely demolished a Luis L. Ortiz cutter in the third inning, sending it into the right-field bullpen with an exit velocity of 114.6 mph. After going 1-for-4 in the nightcap, Wood is slashing .271/.378/.550 through 37 games on the season with 10 homers, five steals, 22 runs and 23 RBI.
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Nationals' James Wood: Racks up four hits Saturday
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Wood went 4-for-6 with a double, two runs and a stolen base in Saturday's 11-6 victory versus Cincinnati.
Wood entered Saturday without a multi-hit effort in his past seven games, but he snapped that streak with his first four-hit performance of the season and the third of his career. The talented young outfielder also swiped a bag for the second straight game, and he's now up to five thefts on the season. Wood has shown solid growth in his sophomore MLB campaign; in addition to already tying last season's mark of nine homers in less than half as many games, he's slashing .273/.384/.547 over 151 plate appearances and has driven in 21 runs.
Wood went 1-for-4 with a walk and a solo home run in Monday's loss to the Mets.
His massive 438-foot blast to right-center field spoiled a combined shutout bid for New York, coming in the eighth inning off Jose Urena. Wood is one back of Eugenio Suarez and Cal Raleigh for the major-league lead in home runs with nine, and the 22-year-old's longest homer drought of the season so far is only five games. Through 127 plate appearances, Wood is slashing .257/.362/.560 with three steals, 18 runs and 20 RBI as he surges toward a breakout campaign.
Wood went 1-for-3 with a walk and a solo home run in Wednesday's win over the Orioles.
The 22-year-old outfielder absolutely demolished a Tomoyuki Sugano sinker to lead off the bottom of the first inning, as the ball left his bat at 116.3 mph -- the hardest-hit homer of Wood's career. Per Jessica Camerato of MLB.com, only Bryce Harper has matched that exit velocity on a Nats homer since Statcast begin tracking the metric in 2015. Wood is slashing .256/.356/.578 through 24 games with eight homers, three steals, 17 runs and 18 RBI, and his eight long balls are just one off the major-league lead shared by Cal Raleigh, Tyler Soderstrom and Corbin Carroll.
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Player Bio
HT/WT: 6-7, 234 lbs
Birthplace: Rockville, MD
Age: 22
Experience: 1
Bats/Throws: L, R
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