WASHINGTON (AP) — Luis Garcia Jr.’s sacrifice fly to deep center plated Alex Call with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth, James Wood led off the game with his eighth homer and the Washington Nationals beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 on Wednesday.
Wood drove the fifth pitch of the game by Orioles starter Tomoyaki Sugano 431 feet over the right-center field wall and Josh Bell added a two-run shot as the Nationals raced out to a 3-0 lead on three hits in the first inning.
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Baltimore Orioles' Tyler O'Neill, right, strikes out swinging in front of Washington Nationals catcher Keibert Ruiz (20) during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals starting pitcher Trevor Williams delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' James Wood, right, celebrates with Luis Garcia Jr. (2) after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Baltimore Orioles second baseman Jackson Holliday (7) is unable to stop a ground ball hit in by Washington Nationals' Keibert Ruiz (20), who advances to first base for a single during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' Josh Bell (19) times his swing while on deck as Keibert Ruiz (20) is at bat during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' Josh Bell celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' Josh Bell, right, celebrates with third base coach Ricky Gutierrez (12) after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Kyle Finnegan allowed two singles but struck out Tyler O'Neill and got Heston Kjerstad to pop out in the ninth for his ninth save of the season. Jorge Lopez (1-0) earned the win. Gregory Soto (0-1) took the loss.
Wood’s blast left the park at 116.3 mph and was second career leadoff homer. The first came against Mitch Keller on April 15 at Pittsburgh.
Bell’s homer was his fourth of the season and 27th of his career at Nationals Park.
Down 3-0, the Orioles scored single runs in the third, seventh and eighth innings. Jordan Westburg’s triple led off the eighth. Ramon Urias’s sacrifice fly to center field brought him home to tie the game at 3.
Trevor Williams skirted through trouble later in his outing, allowing one run on six hits over five innings, striking out five and walking one. He threw 99 pitches, 61 for strikes.
Sugano settled in after the first inning, allowing just two hits over the next six to toss seven innings for the second consecutive start. He struck out one and walked none.
After going 2-for-26, Rutschman singled in his first two at-bats, including an RBI single to get the Orioles on the board in the third.
Nationals left-hander MacKenzie Gore (2-2, 3.41 ERA), who leads the majors with 45 strikeouts, takes on Orioles left-hander Cade Povich (0-2, 6.38) in the series finale.
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Baltimore Orioles' Tyler O'Neill, right, strikes out swinging in front of Washington Nationals catcher Keibert Ruiz (20) during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals starting pitcher Trevor Williams delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' James Wood, right, celebrates with Luis Garcia Jr. (2) after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Baltimore Orioles second baseman Jackson Holliday (7) is unable to stop a ground ball hit in by Washington Nationals' Keibert Ruiz (20), who advances to first base for a single during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' Josh Bell (19) times his swing while on deck as Keibert Ruiz (20) is at bat during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' Josh Bell celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Washington Nationals' Josh Bell, right, celebrates with third base coach Ricky Gutierrez (12) after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Strong winter winds collapsed walls onto flimsy tents for Palestinians displaced by war in Gaza, killing at least four, hospital authorities said Tuesday.
Dangerous living conditions persist in Gaza after more than two years of devastating Israeli bombardment and aid shortfalls. A ceasefire has been in effect since Oct. 10. But aid groups say that Palestinians broadly lack the shelter necessary to withstand frequent winter storms.
The dead include two women, a girl and a man, according to Shifa Hospital, Gaza City’s largest, which received the bodies.
Meanwhile, the child death toll in Gaza ticked up. The Gaza Health Ministry said Tuesday a 1-year-old boy died of hypothermia overnight, while the spokesman for the U.N.'s children agency said over 100 children and teenagers have been killed by “military means" since the ceasefire began.
Three members of the same family — 72-year-old Mohamed Hamouda, his 15-year-old granddaughter and his daughter-in-law — were killed when an 8-meter (26-foot)-high wall collapsed onto their tent in a coastal area along the Mediterranean shore of Gaza City, Shifa Hospital said. At least five others were injured.
Their relatives on Tuesday began removing the rubble that had buried their loved ones and rebuilding the tent shelters for survivors.
“The world has allowed us to witness death in all its forms,” Bassel Hamouda said after the funeral. “It’s true the bombing may have temporarily stopped, but we have witnessed every conceivable cause of death in the world in the Gaza Strip.”
A second woman was killed when a wall fell on her tent in the western part of the city, Shifa Hospital said.
The majority of Palestinians live in makeshift tents since their homes were reduced to rubble during the war. When storms strike the territory, Palestinian rescue workers warn people against seeking shelter inside damaged buildings for fears of collapse. Aid groups say not enough shelter materials are entering Gaza during the truce.
In the central town of Zawaida, Associated Press footage showed inundated tents Tuesday morning, with people trying to rebuild their shelters.
Yasmin Shalha, a displaced woman from the northern town of Beit Lahiya, stood against winds that lifted the tarps of tents around her as she stitched hers back together with needle and thread. She said it had fallen on top of her family the night before, as they slept.
“The winds were very, very strong. The tent collapsed over us,” the mother of five told the AP. “As you can see, our situation is dire.”
On the shore in southern Gaza, tents were swept away into the Mediterranean. Families pulled what was left from the sea, while some built sand barriers to hold back rising water.
“The sea took our mattresses, our tents, our food, and everything we owned," Shaban Abu Ishaq said, as he dragged part of his tent out of the sea in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis.
Mohamed al-Sawalha, a 72-year-old man from the northern refugee camp of Jabaliya, said the conditions most Palestinians in Gaza endure are barely livable.
“It doesn’t work neither in summer nor in winter,” he said of the tent. “We left behind houses and buildings (with) doors that could be opened and closed. Now we live in a tent. Even sheep don’t live like we do.”
Residents aren’t able to return to their homes in Israeli-controlled areas of the Gaza Strip.
Gaza's Health Ministry said the 1-year-old in the central town of Deir al-Balah was the seventh fatality due to the cold conditions since winter started. Others included a baby just seven days old and a 4-year-old girl, whose deaths were announced Monday.
The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, says more than 440 people were killed by Israeli fire and their bodies brought to hospitals since the ceasefire went into effect. The ministry maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.
UNICEF spokesman James Elder said Tuesday at least 100 children under the age of 18 — 60 boys and 40 girls — have been killed since the truce began due to military operations, including drone strikes, airstrikes, tank shelling and use of live ammunition. Those figures, he said, reflect incidents where enough details have been compiled to warrant recording, but the total toll is expected to be higher. He said hundreds of children have been wounded.
While “bombings and shootings have slowed” during the ceasefire, they have not stopped, Elder told reporters at a U.N. briefing in Geneva by video from Gaza City. “So what the world now calls calm would be considered a crisis anywhere else,” he said.
Gaza's population of more than 2 million people has been struggling to keep the cold weather and storms at bay while facing shortages of humanitarian aid and a lack of more substantial temporary housing, which is badly needed during the winter months. It's the third winter since the war between Israel and Hamas started on Oct. 7, 2023, when militants stormed into southern Israel and killed around 1,200 people and abducted 251 others into Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 71,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's retaliatory offensive.
Samy Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Toqa Ezzidin in Cairo, Jamey Keaten in Geneva and Julia Frankel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
Palestinians repair their tents after they were damaged by a storm at a displacement camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A view of a displacement camp sheltering Palestinians on a beach amid stormy weather in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A man carries a piece of wood at a displacement camp sheltering Palestinians on a beach amid stormy weather in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Members of the Hamouda family bid farewell to relatives who died when a damaged building collapsed onto their tents during a storm of wind and rain, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
People inspect the site where at least four Palestinians died following the collapse of walls onto tents sheltering displaced people in Gaza City amid rainfall and strong winds, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
