CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Daylen Lile hit a tiebreaking home run in the fourth inning and rookie Brad Lord struck out a season-best seven to help the Washington Nationals beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Lile\u2019s solo shot off Matthew Boyd (12-8) gave the Nationals the lead for good.<\/p>\n
Lord (5-8) struck out the side in the third and fourth and allowed two hits, an earned run and four walks in the first 5 2\/3 innings as the Nationals won for the fourth time in five tries. Cole Henry, the fourth Washington reliever, worked the ninth and earned his second save.<\/p>\n
Chicago batters drew seven walks but weren\u2019t able to capitalize. The Cubs’ lone run came in the second when Carson Kelly knocked in Pete Crow-Armstrong on a ground-out.<\/p>\n
Boyd worked the first seven innings and allowed seven hits and both runs while striking out three.<\/p>\n
The Nationals started the game with three straight hits, including Jorge Alfaro\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n
Crow-Armstrong needed help from the training staff after fouling a ball off his right leg during a sixth-inning at-bat, and did not return to the field due to what the club called a right knee contusion.<\/p>\n
Chicago manager Craig Counsell said before the game that All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker (calf) would not need a spell on the injured list. He missed a third straight game with the injury.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Lile, who tripled twice a day earlier, barely cleared the right-field basket leading off the fourth. But that was all the offense Washington\u2019s pitchers would need in the game.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Boyd had a pair of successful pickoffs, including getting Abrams in the fifth inning, for his 10th of the season, setting a club season record mark and moving past the record set in 1913 by Charlie Smith. The left-hander also caught Brady House in a second-inning rundown.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Washington sends LHP Andrew Alvarez (1-0. 0.00 ERA) to the mound for Sunday\u2019s series finale. The Cubs have not named a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Daylen Lile hit a tiebreaking home run in the fourth inning and rookie Brad Lord…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[113641,960,20167,5949,5386,1818,113640,5368,92782,2030],"class_list":{"0":"post-206662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-boyd","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-cubs","11":"tag-home-run","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-lile","15":"tag-nationals","16":"tag-strikeouts","17":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115160965776073099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}