Washington Nationals at Arizona Diamondbacks: Final Score & Recap

The Washington Nationals handed the Arizona Diamondbacks a 6-1 defeat at Chase Field on June 6, 2026, handing the home team a loss the DiamondIQ model's estimate had given Arizona a 55 percent chance to avoid before first pitch. Washington scored in just three innings — a two-run first, a two-run seventh, and a two-run ninth — while Arizona's pitching staff held Washington off the board in between but ultimately could not contain the damage done in those bursts. The Nationals finished with eight hits against two for the Diamondbacks, and the final win probability settled at zero percent for the home side.

The decisive sequence arrived in the seventh inning against Eduardo Rodriguez. Jacob Young opened the frame with a triple that added 7.1 percentage points to Washington's win probability, and Dylan Crews followed immediately with a home run that swung the model's estimate another 13.4 points in the Nationals' favor, the single largest win-probability play of the game. Earlier, Arizona had mounted its most credible threat in the fifth when LuJames Groover's single off Zack Littell moved the needle 13.2 points toward the Diamondbacks' side, but Gabriel Moreno grounded into a double play the next inning that erased 11.9 points of Arizona's remaining leverage, effectively ending the home team's realistic path to a comeback.

Crews led all batters with a WPA of plus-17.2 and an RE24 of plus-1.1, while Groover posted plus-8.1 WPA and Keibert Ruiz contributed plus-6.9 WPA in support. On the mound, Zack Littell was Washington's most impactful arm at plus-22.9 WPA, supported by Orlando Ribalta at plus-7.9 and Mitchell Parker at plus-6.3, a collective pitching performance that limited Arizona to two hits and rendered the Diamondbacks' pre-game home-field probability meaningless by the final out.