De La Rosa will make his 300th major league appearance and 235th start Monday.
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“In a ideal world we would have liked to have given him a little more time”, Hart said, “but I think this presented an opportunity for us”.
Harper finished 3-for-3 with two walks, and Jayson Werth added two hits for Washington, including a two-run homer.
Petit allowed one run on three hits in three innings. Offensively, DJ LeMahieu leads Colorado with 140 hits, Charlie Blackmon has 60 RBI and Carlos Gonzalez has 23 home runs.
Wednesday’s Say Hey, Baseball wants to you remind you that baseball is always ruder than you think it is. Arenado’s ground-out double play to third base in the seventh left two runners on.
Swanson was batting.261/.342/.402 with 13 doubles, five triples, eight home runs and 45 RBIs in 84 games at Mississippi. All three runners moved up on the sacrifice fly to center that made it 4-2, and Dahl’s two-out double gave the Rockies a four-run cushion. It’s Utley’s first series at Citizens Bank Park since being traded last season to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and fans gave him a 1 1/2-minute ovation before his first at-bat then pleaded for a curtain call after Utley homered in the fifth inning and again after he hit a grand slam in the seventh. And Mark Melancon threw four pitches, all strikes, while getting three ground outs in the ninth to earn his 34th save overall and fourth since joining the Nationals.
The Nationals are 9-1 in their last 10 during game 2 of a series and 1-6 in Gonzalezs last 7 road starts.
According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetDSI, the Nationals are -122 money line favorites versus the Rockies, who have odds of +112 to pull off the upset tonight at home.
Chris Rusin (3-4) took over for Bettis when play resumed and worked three scoreless innings.
The Atlanta Braves top prospect is leaving The Sip and heading to The Show.
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The Nationals are coming into this game after allowing two walks during their last outing. Last month, he was invited to San Diego during the majors’ All-Star weekend to play for the US team in the All-Star Futures Game. The greatest opponents of this deal did not believe that Miller was going to pitch himself out of the majors and back into minor-league ball. Nationals 1B Ryan Zimmerman (left wrist contusion) and C Jose Lobaton (left elbow tendinitis) began rehab assignments Monday with Triple-A Syracuse.
