Carroll hits 2 homers, Grichuk has tiebreaking double and Diamondbacks beat Nats 6-4

WASHINGTON (AP) — Corbin Carroll homered twice, pinch-hitter Randal Grichuk hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Washington Nationals 6-4 on Friday night.

Grichuk doubled off the wall in center against Jose Ferrer (0-2) — with Jacob Young nearly making the catch — to score pinch-runner Garrett Hampson and Geraldo Perdomo for a 6-4 lead.

Carroll trimmed Arizona's deficit to 3-2 on a home run in the third, and his two-run homer in the fifth made it 4-3.

Arizona starter Brandon Pfaadt (1-1) went six innings, allowing six hits and four earned runs while striking out four. Justin Martinez worked the ninth for his first save.

The Nationals hit three homers. CJ Abrams had a leadoff homer to tie it at 1-all in the first and Luis García Jr. added a two-run homer later in the inning. Nathaniel Lowe tied the game in the sixth with his third homer of the year.

Washington catcher Keibert Ruiz, who had hit safely in all six games to start the season and in 10 straight since the end of 2024, went 0 for 4.

Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte left in the first inning after sustaining a left hamstring strain while running the bases. Marte hit a drive to the wall in center field and as he rounded first base and headed to second, he started to stutter-step.

The Diamondbacks have homered in each of their first eight games of a season for the fourth time in franchise history. The 2001 team homered in 12 straight to begin the season.

Arizona LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (0-0, 5.06) faces Washington LHP Mitchell Parker (1-0, 0.00) on Saturday.

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Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Garrett Hampson throws to first base on a single hit by Washington Nationals' James Wood during the third inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Washington Nationals pitcher Jake Irvin throws during the third inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Garrett Hampson breaks his bat during the third inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Garrett Hampson (8) steals second base and beats a tag by Washington Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams during the third inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Washington Nationals pitcher Jake Irvin throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks Garrett Hampson runs on his way to scoring on a single by Josh Naylor against Washington Nationals pitcher Jake Irvin during the first inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Washington Nationals' CJ Abrams, left, is greeted by James Wood,right, after hitting a solo home run off Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt during the first inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Washington Nationals' Luis García Jr., left, gestures and is greeted by third base coach Ricky Gutierrez (12) after hitting a two-run home run off Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt during the first inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Washington Nationals' Luis García Jr. (2) is greeted by Nathaniel Lowe, right, after hitting a two-run home run against Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt during the first inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Garrett Hampson (8) catches a line drive hit by Washington Nationals' Keibert Ruiz during the first inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon Pfaadt throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Randal Grichuk hits a two-run double off Washington Nationals pitcher Jose A. Ferrer during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Randal Grichuk gestures after hitting a two-run double off Washington Nationals pitcher Jose A. Ferrer during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Corbin Carroll (7) is greeted by third base/infield coach Shaun Larkin (88) after hitting a solo home run off Washington Nationals pitcher Jake Irvin during the third inning of a baseball game in Washington, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)

KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (AP) — Anger and outrage gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground.

More than 70 were wounded in the attack last Friday evening on Kryvyi Rih. The children were playing on swings and in a sandbox in a tree-lined park at the time. Bodies were strewn across the grass.

“We are not asking for pity,” Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the city administration, wrote on Telegram as Kryvyi Rih mourned. “We demand the world’s outrage.”

The U.N. Human Rights Office in Ukraine said it was the deadliest single verified strike harming children since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. It was also one of the deadliest attacks so far this year.

Ukraine has consented to a ceasefire proposed weeks ago by Washington. But Russia is still negotiating with the United States its terms for accepting a truce in the more than three-year war.

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced frustration at the continued fighting, and Ukrainian officials want him to compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop. Trump vowed during his election campaign last year to bring a swift end to the war.

“We’re talking to Russia. We’d like them to stop,” Trump told reporters Sunday. “I don’t like the bombing.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed Monday that Putin supports a ceasefire proposed by Trump but wants Russian conditions to be met.

“President Putin indeed backs the ceasefire idea, but it’s necessary to first answer quite a few questions,” Peskov said.

In Kryvyi Rih, teacher Iryna Kholod, 59, remembered Arina and Radyslav, both 7 years old and killed in Friday's strike, as being “like little suns in the classroom.”

Radyslav, she said, was proud to be part of a school campaign collecting pet food for stray animals. “He held the bag like it was treasure. He wanted to help,” she told The Associated Press.

After Friday evening, "two desks in my classroom were empty forever,” Kholod said, adding that she still has unopened birthday gifts for them.

“How do I tell parents to return their textbooks? How do I teach without them?” she asked.

Russian missile and drone tactics continue to evolve, making it harder to shoot them down, Yurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force command, said on national television.

Russia's Shahed drones have undergone significant upgrades, while Moscow is also modernizing its ballistic missiles, he said.

Only the U.S. Patriot missile defense system can help prevent attacks like the one in Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy said late Sunday.

He said he had instructed his defense and foreign affairs ministers to "work bilaterally on air defense, especially with the United States, which has sufficient potential to help stop any terror.”

Ukraine will send a team to Washington this week to begin negotiations on a new draft of a deal that would give the U.S. access to Ukraine’s valuable mineral resources, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko told The Associated Press.

Failure to conclude a mineral deal has hamstrung Ukrainian efforts to secure pledges of continuing U.S. military support.

Britain's Ministry of Defense and the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, a think tank, say Russia's battlefield progress on the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line has slowed since November. But on Saturday night, Russia launched its biggest aerial attack on Ukraine in nearly a month.

Both sides are thought to be preparing for a renewed spring-summer military campaign.

In Kryvyi Rih on Monday, Nataliia Slobodeniuk recalled her student Danylo Nikitskyi, 15, as “a spark” who energized the classroom and helped organize school trips and other occasions.

“If Danylo was going, half the class went too,” the 55-year-old teacher said. “That’s how loved he was.”

She choked up as she spoke of her feeling of powerlessness after the attack.

“You live through their joy, their sadness,” she told AP. “And now, this pain, it tears you apart. And you realize there’s nothing you can do. Nothing to fix it. You just carry the pain forever.”

An air raid alert interrupted a planned memorial ceremony in the city — a reminder of the continuing threat for civilians.

The frustration hit home for Nataliia Freylikh, the schoolteacher of 9-year-old Herman Tripolets, who was killed in last Friday's attack.

“Even mourning him properly is impossible,” Freylikh said.

Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.

Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, dead bodies lie on the ground after a Russian missile hit apartment houses and a playground, killing 14 civilians including six children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, dead bodies lie on the ground after a Russian missile hit apartment houses and a playground, killing 14 civilians including six children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, dead bodies lie on the ground after a Russian missile hit apartment houses and a playground, killing 14 civilians including six children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Flowers and toys left in the play area to commemorate victims killed in Russia's missile attack on Friday, near apartment buildings, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo)

Flowers and toys left on a swing seat to commemorate victims killed in Russia's missile attack on Friday, at a children play area near the damaged apartment buildings, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo)