Andres Chaparro hit two homers and more than doubled his season count with eight RBIs as the Washington Nationals torched the lowly Athletics 23-4 on Friday night at West Sacramento, Calif.
Chaparro had seven RBIs on the season before going 4-for-5 with a walk and four runs as Washington set a season high for runs and scored in double digits for the 13th time this season. The 23 runs match the second most in franchise history, which began in 1969 as the Montreal Expos.
Daylen Lile homered and drove in four runs and Harry Ford homered in his Washington debut while Cade Cavalli pitched six solid innings.
Curtis Mead was 4-for-6 with four runs, three RBIs and three doubles and Nasim Nunez had three hits and three runs scored as Washington halted a three-game losing streak.
Tyler Soderstrom hit a two-run homer and Shea Langeliers belted a solo shot for the Athletics, who lost their 10th consecutive game.
Cavalli (6-4) struck out nine for Washington. He gave up two runs and four hits and didn’t walk anyone.
Gage Jump (3-5) of the A’s allowed four runs (three earned) and four hits in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out eight and walked two.
The Nationals began their assault in the third inning with three runs on a two-run double by Mead and a run-scoring single by Chaparro.
Washington made it 4-0 in the fourth on Jacob Young’s ground-rule double over the wall in right-center.
The Athletics got on the board in the bottom of the inning as Jacob Wilson hit a leadoff single and Soderstrom followed with a two-run homer.
Mead singled with one-out in the fifth and Chaparro hit a two-run blast to left-center that traveled 467 feet. Dylan Crews walked later in the inning and Ford followed with a two-run homer to left-center to make it 8-2. It was his first major league blast.
In the sixth inning, Wood hit a two-run single before A’s rookie center fielder Henry Bolte had trouble on three consecutive plays.
First, Bolte couldn’t find Mead’s fly to center and it dropped in for a double. Chaparro then singled to score Wood and Mead came around when Bolte fumbled the ball. Abrams then hit a deep drive in which Bolte turned the wrong direction and it short-hopped the wall for an RBI single.
Lile hit an RBI single later in the inning to make it 14-2.
Mead smacked a run-scoring double in the seventh and Chaparro followed with a three-run homer to left to make it 18-2.
Switch-throwing outfielder Carlos Cortes pitched the ninth — he threw left-handed — and allowed an RBI double to Crews, a run-scoring single to Ford and a three-run homer to Lile.
Langeliers homered and Bolte had an RBI ground-rule double in the ninth for the A’s.
