Nathaniel Lowe hit two of Washington’s five home runs and the Nationals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
James Wood, CJ Abrams and Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. also went deep for the Nationals, who won a road game for the first time this month. They are 2-12 in their past 14 games overall.<\/p>\n
Jake Irvin (6-3) worked around two homers and six hits in 5 1\/3 innings to win for the first time in four starts. He struck out seven.<\/p>\n
Three relievers held the Dodgers to one hit over the final 3 2\/3 innings. Keibert Ruiz went 3 for 3 with a sacrifice fly for Washington.<\/p>\n
Andy Pages, Will Smith and Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez homered for the Dodgers, who dropped to 9-4 since June 8. Dustin May (4-5) gave up three home runs in six innings.<\/p>\n
Wood and Garc\u00eda connected on May’s first two pitches in the fourth. Wood has a team-best 21 home runs, including four against the Dodgers in five games.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles pulled to 2-1 in the fifth on Pages\u2019 home run. Lowe went deep in the sixth and Smith homered in the bottom half to make it 3-2. Abrams launched a two-run drive off left-hander Jack Dreyer in the seventh for a 5-2 advantage.<\/p>\n
Lowe\u2019s solo shot in the eighth gave him his first multihomer game this season.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Smith’s homer pulled the Dodgers to 3-2 in the sixth, but Irvin rebounded to strike out Hern\u00e1ndez \u2014 the last batter he faced.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
The Nationals have eight home runs in two games after they entered the series with 72, which ranked in the bottom third of MLB clubs.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Dodgers RHP Shohei Ohtani (0-0, 9.00 ERA) starts against Washington RHP Michael Soroka (3-5, 5.06) on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Lowe hit two of Washington’s five home runs and the Nationals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,2502,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-4475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114725451472377590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","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=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}