CINCINNATI (AP) — James Wood hit his 12th home run of the season, and Luis Garcia Jr. and Daylen Lile each went deep twice as part of a six-homer night by the Washington Nationals in a 10-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday.
Brady House also homered for the Nationals, who improved to 14-9 on the road. That's the second-most road wins in the majors behind Atlanta's 16.
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Washington Nationals pitcher Miles Mikolas delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Washington Nationals' James Wood rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Cincinnati Reds' second baseman Matt McLain grounds into a fielder's choice that scores teammate Elly de la Cruz during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Washington Nationals' Nasim Nuñez hits a single during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds', Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Washington Nationals' Daylen Lile rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Lile and García became the sixth pair of Nationals players to homer twice in the same game. The last were Brian Dozier and Juan Soto on Aug. 18, 2019.
Washington has 50 homers this season and surpassed its previous high of four in a game, set on May 6 in a win over Minnesota.
Reds starter Brady Singer was struck on the right foot by a line drive off the bat of Lile in the second inning but remained in the game after being assessed by training staff. He later had an X-ray that came back clean, the team said.
In the third, Singer (2-3) allowed consecutive homers to Wood and Garcia to make the score 2-0. Lile's first longball made it 3-0 in the fourth.
Garcia led off the fifth with a homer off Sam Moll. Later in the inning, Lile's three-run shot pushed the Nationals' lead to 7-2.
House's sixth homer was a two-run shot off Tony Santillan in the eighth.
Brad Lord (2-0) worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief of Washington starter Miles Mikolas, who allowed two runs, one earned, in 3 1/3 innings.
JJ Bleday hit a two-run double in the ninth for Cincinnati, which went 1 for 12 with runners in scoring position.
Nationals RHP Jake Irvin (1-4, 5.22 ERA) will face Reds LHP Nick Lodolo (0-1, 6.75) on Wednesday night.
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Washington Nationals pitcher Miles Mikolas delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Washington Nationals' James Wood rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Cincinnati Reds' second baseman Matt McLain grounds into a fielder's choice that scores teammate Elly de la Cruz during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Washington Nationals' Nasim Nuñez hits a single during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds', Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
Washington Nationals' Daylen Lile rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)
CAIRO (AP) — A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others.
Saudi authorities said there were injuries in the latest attack on the King Khalid International Airport complex for terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights. Saturday’s missile attack was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began, with another 300 people wounded, some critically. The airport was still closed Sunday.
The sharp escalation in the new front in the war threatens to draw in greater U.S. military involvement, as President Donald Trump has said he is weighing joining the fight against the Houthis. There was no immediate White House comment Sunday.
The latest strike in Riyadh came shortly after the Houthis said the airport in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sanaa had been struck again, and blamed the Saudis.
At stake, again, in this escalation are global supplies and prices of oil as well as commercial shipping through a crucial alternative waterway to the Iran-threatened Strait of Hormuz — along with civilians and aviation throughout the region.
Trump on Saturday also said he planned to speak with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been seeking assistance.
A U.S. intervention could prompt the Houthis to halt shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea off Yemen and further restrict the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf. The rebels seized key areas along the strait last month and the Saudi-led coalition has been trying to seize them back.
Saudi Arabia is running low on missile interceptors and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt to deploy air defense support to the region, regional officials told The Associated Press last month, with one noting that the U.S. has seen its own stock dwindle during the war with Iran.
Sunday’s attack occurred as the Saudis hosted a major international energy conference in Riyadh, with other high-profile events including an investment gathering on the horizon. Saudi Arabia under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has sought to open more to the world as a business and tourism destination, but the Houthi attacks threaten those efforts.
“There is no way that somebody will break our back. We are like a phoenix, we come out of the ashes all the time,” the Saudi energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, told the conference.
He added that the kingdom is also working on pipelines in addition to the East-West one that was attacked and closed for days last month, with no details.
Earlier Sunday, the Houthi-run health ministry said a child was killed and six people wounded in a suspected Saudi airstrike on a house in Sanaa. The ministry also said 91 Yemenis have been killed by the Saudi-led coalition in five weeks, 60% of them women and children.
There was no immediate comment from Saudi authorities on the claims.
On Sunday, the Houthis also claimed attacks on King Fahd Airport in the city of Damma, as well as oil and gas facilities in the kingdom's east. They have targeted the Riyadh airport, which has no military facilities, every day since Wednesday.
The rebels again warned “all airlines, experts, employees, workers and travelers against using Saudi airports and airspace, as they are vulnerable to attack and have become a theater of operations for our forces." Several international airlines have suspended flights for varying periods.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the group’s military spokesperson, wrote on X that airports in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, however, were exempt. The kingdom earlier called Mecca a “red line.”
A Saudi statement said the dead in Saturday's attack included four Saudi citizens, two Bangladeshi nationals, a Palestinian, a U.S. citizen, an Egyptian, a Jordanian, a Syrian and a Sudanese.
The Egyptian woman was a flight attendant identified as Azza Ramzy, who worked for Saudi airline Flynas, according to Egyptian state-run TV.
The Syrian woman was a widowed mother of four who had been living in Saudi Arabia for five years, relative Nisreen Oweida told The Associated Press. The Syrian Embassy identified her as Buthaina Ahmad Oweida.
Until recently, the Houthis had been largely on the sidelines of the Iran war, but they have developed their military capabilities in recent years to become one of Tehran's most powerful allies. Now, the rebels are helping Iran to pressure a key U.S. ally.
The Saudis and the Houthis began fighting in 2015, when the kingdom entered Yemen’s civil war on behalf of the internationally recognized government. Relative calm after a 2022 ceasefire ended in July when the Houthis resumed attacks, saying the Saudis fired on the Sanaa airport as a plane from Iran was trying to land.
That revived anger over the Saudi-led blockade that has largely isolated Houthi-run areas. The Houthis say they have now imposed a blockade on Saudi Arabia.
Fighting has escalated, with the Saudi-led coalition providing air support for Yemeni government forces attempting to reverse recent Houthi gains near the Bab el-Mandeb, a crucial alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has been attacking ships.
But Ahmed Nagi, the International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Yemen, said the Houthi pressure tactics could backfire. “Rather than pushing Riyadh to step back, attacks on critical Saudi infrastructure could make the Saudis more determined to continue the campaign,” he said.
A previous version of this report has been corrected to show that the Egyptian killed in the strike was a woman, not a man.
Frankel and Anna reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Victoria Eastwood in Cairo, Collin Binkley in Washington, Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut and Omar Albam in Maarat al-Numan, Syria, contributed to this report.
People gather outside a metro station on the road to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo)
People gather outside a metro station on the road to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo)
This image from video obtained and verified by AP shows thick black smoke and flames rising from a fire at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
