Instead, he toughed it out, moved to second base in the ninth and used his bat to win the game one inning later.
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Washington Nationals’ Gio Gonzalez pitches against the Atlanta Braves during the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, in Atlanta.
Kemp’s two-base error, a muffed attempt on the warning track, was the first of several Atlanta miscues in the Braves’ 8-2 loss to the Washington Nationals on Thursday.
Freeman and the Atlanta Braves rallied from a three-run deficit to tie the game in the eighth before Clint Robinson’s tiebreaking single with two outs in the ninth lifted the Nationals to a 7-6 win on Friday night.
Rain delayed the game 1 hour, 4 minutes in the bottom of the eighth. He’s 2-0 with an 0.64 ERA in two starts against the Braves this season, allowing nine hits, one run and five walks with seven strikeouts in 14 innings.
“Sometimes you’ve got to let them grow up”, Washington manager Dusty Baker said. Washington’s Gio Gonzalez takes the mound in search of his 100th career victory – and a Nationals sweep – while Braves rookie Joel De La Cruz hopes to pick up his first major-league win.
Roark has received 5.0 support runs per nine innings pitched this season including just over 5.6 in his past 10 starts.
Anthony Recker scored from third in the sixth to cut the lead to 6-4 when second baseman Daniel Murphy threw errantly to first. An RBI groundout by Bryce Harper made it a one-run game in the top of the first inning.
Scherzer beat out an infield hit in the seventh to drive in another run.
Peterson, making his first career start in centre field, slammed his face and shoulder into the wall after making a twisting catch of Heisey’s liner to end the third.
“It’s a good game, but I got a little older, ” Baker said. “I couldn’t breathe. That was really it”.
“I didn’t feel anything and that’s a good thing”, Teheran said.
Rob Whalen (1-2) allowed three hits and one earned run in a career-best six innings. He struck out eight. He gave up three runs in the second inning.
Washington is 25-7 against Atlanta since the start of 2015.
After striking out almost a batter per inning as an 18- and 19-year-0ld with the Cardinals, Jenkins’ strikeouts have significantly regressed as he has gotten older, and the issue was exacerbated while up with the Braves, getting just 4.1 K/9 IP, even walking more batters (30) than he struck out (21). They haven’t had a starting pitcher work more than six innings since July 17, when Teheran pitched seven against Colorado.
There were three hits, a walk and a throwing error by Swanson in the inning, with the only RBI coming on Turner’s ground out.
Braves 1B Freddie Freeman had a cortisone shot in the middle finger of his right hand after Saturday’s game and didn’t play.
“It’s huge”, Turner said of Zimmerman’s return to the lineup.
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Over the course of his on-base streak, the 37-year-old outfielder has 43 hits and 32 walks and a.382 OBP. He’s the Nationals’ career leader in getting hit by a pitch and has been hit 19 times this year, second-most in the NL. RHP Jason Hursh was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett. Prior to the two bad outings, he had made three quality starts in a row, dropping his ERA to 3.92, but that number has since skyrocketed with his inability to get anyone in a Nationals uniform out over the past week.
