Oakland’s victory came before a crowd of 8,637 on a Little League day, the A’s second-best attendance figure of the season behind 13,522 on Opening Night.

In the sixth, the A’s trailed 6-1 when Abraham Toro opened with a walk and after Zack Gelof struck out, J.J. Bleday doubled him to third. Law came in and struck out Seth Brown for the second out, and then things got interesting.

Third baseman Tyler Nevin singled to drive in a run, and Butler singled to right to drive in another and make it 6-3. Nevin scored on a wild pitch by Law, Shea Langeliers walked and so did Ryan Noda. Jordan Weems replaced Law and Darell Hernaiz walked to force in a run.

Toro, who opened the inning, then hit a single in front of a diving Jesse Winker in left to bring in two more runs and put the A’s up 7-6.

“Those are the at-bats we were looking for,” Kotsay said. “It was a good game for us as a team to build on. they took the at-bats professionally, didn’t try and do too much and took the walks when they were there.”

Lane Thomas homered for Washington, his second, in the fifth inning. It was a no-doubter against Wood that carried 429 feet and left the bat at 106.1 miles per hour.

Wood gave up four earned runs in 4 1/3 innings, but was more upset about his lack of command (57 strikes out of 100 pitches) than the long ball.

“I threw terrible,” Wood said. “I’ve definitely had worse lines but the lack of strikes was super uncharacteristic for me. You’re not going to win many games doing that.

The Nationals scored once in the fourth on an RBI double by Jacob Young, and twice in the third when Young, who was hit by a pitch, scored on a fielder’s choice, with Thomas plating another run with a run-scoring single.

The Athletics broke through against Williams in the fifth, with Butler hitting a double off the top of the fence in right and scoring on a single up up the middle by Shea Langeliers.

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