Devon Travis homered for Toronto, which moved back to the AL East summit for the first time since they won the opening two games of the season.
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Melancon, however, isn’t joining the Nationals until Sunday. “Then Tony was jumping up and down with a smile on his face so I just tossed the ball over to him”. Eduardo Nunez followed with a double to right-center that felt like the first second-half hit with a runner in scoring position.
After snaring Crawford s liner, Zimmerman ran to the first base bag for the second out against advancing runner Buster Posey, then threw to third base to nail Denard Span, who had broken for home on Crawford s shot. Lopez lost in his major league debut against the Dodgers on July 19. It caught too much of the plate, and the Dodgers pounced. Pedro Severino was called up from Triple-A Syracuse. Through two innings, 14 of his 40 pitches were off-speed variants to compliment a fastball that occasionally brushed 98 miles per hour. He walked one and struck out seven. On Saturday, he walked five, tying a season high he set twice in May with Class AA Harrisburg. Nats starter Reynaldo Lopez gave up three runs on four hits and four BB over four frames with Yusmeiro Petit allowing two runs to get the loss. The right-hander had navigated out of a bases-loaded jam in the second inning, but his pitch count was skyrocketing and trouble found him in the fourth.
Nunez, picked up Thursday in a trade with Minnesota, notched his first Giants hit leading off the bottom of the first and stole his 28th base of the season. The Giants then tied the game at 3-3 on an RBI groundout off the bat of Angel Pagan. It was his final pitch of the day.
NOTES: The Nationals made a change at closer Saturday, acquiring RHP Mark Melancon from the Pittsburgh Pirates for LHP Felipe Rivero and LHP Taylor Hearn, despite the fact that they began the day with the lowest bullpen ERA in the National League (3.05) and the second-highest save percentage (75.7). Washington 2B Daniel Murphy (leg) was out of the lineup on Saturday and is day-to-day.3.
It ll have to turn around for the starting pitching first.
Trea Turner had two hits for the Nationals, who had a three-game winning streak snapped. “He’ll be ready to pinch-hit if possible in a situation where he won’t have to run”. They left runners on in the first and third, and in between they left the bases loaded and wasted a leadoff double by Hunter Pence. Makes you wonder what Bryce Harper was thinking. He gave up three hits, walked three and allowed a home run to David Ross.
The game was interrupted in the top of the seventh inning when a fan ran onto the field.
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An inning later, the Nationals added to their lead on an RBI double off the bat of Danny Espinosa. Unlike Washington, the Giants’ bullpen, which used six relievers, put five straight zeroes on the scoreboard.
