Scherzer started the game strong with strikeouts. He gave up a leadoff home run, struck out a pair surrounding a one-out single for Martinez, and then ended the game with a ground out to third base. There were a handful of people around, a couple photographers, a few reporters, the rest still inside the Nationals clubhouse, gathering quote after quote from his current teammates about the domination he displayed against his former teammates in a complete game win over the Detroit Tigers. McCann, however, grounded an 0-1 pitch to third baseman Anthony Rendon, who threw to second for the forceout. He immediately started thinking about what might follow strike two, if he could get it – high fastballs, sliders away, or any of the wide variety pitches he threw brilliantly as he made history Wednesday night.
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J.D. Martinez homered on the first pitch of the inning.
Scherzer wasn’t the only pitcher to enter the record books Wednesday. Houston sent out seven relievers. He struck him out on three pitches in the third: curveball, fastball, fastball.
He struck out the side in the eighth inning to a standing ovation.
Norichika Aoki went 2-for-4 with a run and a walk for the Mariners.
San Diego swept a day-night doubleheader from the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
The Padres beat the Cubs 7-4 in Wednesday’s early game of the split twin bill. Really the homer to Espinosa cost us the game. He also picked up the save in Game 1.
The Nationals gave Scherzer three runs of support. But he left the game in the bottom of that inning when he cut his lower lip and needed five stitches after falling hard face-first into one of the arm rests attached to the seats in the first row. Zimmerman hit two hom…
In Minneapolis, Baltimore’s Mark Trumbo belted two homers in a rout of the Twins.
Oakland has lost a season-high five straight.
Zimmermann won 70 games for the Nationals.
ATLANTA – Williams Perez was masterful in this return from the minors and struggling Atlanta got to celebrate an ultra-rare home victory. He fanned eight of his first 11 batters through the first three innings.
By the time it was all said and done, there were so many K’s on the stadium LED display, it looked as if the scoreboard operator had fallen asleep with his forehead on the “K” key.
He got the win, all right.
Buster Posey, mired in a 1-for-24 slump, didn’t even have to swing the bat to knock in the winning run. Chicago begins a three-game series in the Bronx against the New York Yankees tomorrow evening.
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“First base was open [in the seventh]”. He struck out every Tigers batter at least once, except for designated hitter Victor Martinez. The Tigers’ lone run came on a Jose Iglesias solo home run. Luckily for the Indians they have Thursday off. The Astros on the other hand will be relying heavily on their struggling Cy Young Award victor Dallas Keuchel to outpitch the Boston Red Sox struggling former Cy Young Award victor David Price.
