The Nationals did load the bases later in the inning, but Clint Robinson, who was pinch-hitting for Gio Gonzalez grounded out to end the frame.
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RED SOX 9, RAYS 4: Rick Porcello became the majors’ first 18-game victor and the first Red Sox pitcher in 70 years to open a season 13-0 in Fenway Park, going seven solid innings in Boston’s 9-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Yoenis Cespedes homered with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the New York Mets a 2-1 victory over the Miami Marlins in the first game of a pivotal series between National League playoff contenders Monday night.
“The performance he had tonight was outstanding”, manager Pete Mackanin said. “That was a big hit, big RBI, big at-bat”.
The defeat secured the Phillies their eighth straight loss to the Nationals, which ties a franchise record previous set four times, the last being June 2, 1989 to July 5, 1989. Justin Upton also went deep for the Tigers, who pulled within a game of Baltimore for the American League’s second wild card.
He added a 20-strikeout game against the Tigers on May 11 of this season. Washington is idle Thursday for its first day off since August 11.
Each night in the 2016 baseball season, we’ll run down the top news, facts and highlights from action around Major League Baseball. “They gave me all they had”. They have been outscored by a 47-19 margin in those nine games dating back to the final game of a three-game sweep at Washington back on April 28. Hendricks allowed just three hits and struck out four batters to improve to 13-7 with a 2.09 ERA.
Roark didn’t need much support. Two nights after coming up with a whopping four hits against Tanner Roark and company, and one night after scrapping together three hits off Max Scherzer, the Phillies all but handed the brooms over to the guys in the visiting dugout before they departed town.
“He kept the ball down”, Baker said. Marc Rzepczynski tossed a ideal eighth and Mark Melancon finished off the four-hitter. Ramos brought Harper home with an RBI single to put the Nats ahead 2-0. “When I’m able to throw all my pitches for strikes it really allows (catcher Wilson Ramos) to do his job back there and come up with the right sequence”.
Mookie Betts hit his 30th homer, a solo shot, and drove in two runs for the Red Sox, who hold the AL’s first wild-card spot but had lost four of five. He retired 13 straight at one point and produced nine groundball outs.
But Scherzer closed the door from there, striking out three more in the seventh and eighth en route to his 15th win of the season.
Afterwards, Mackanin admitted that “he didn’t think he had to bowl him over”, but Howard laughed that Rupp probably “liked it” and “that’s baseball”.
“It was fun”, Morgan said. “That just goes to show how hard he works and how he goes about it”.
The Nationals have outscored the Phillies 45-18 over the course of their eight-game winning streak, holding Philly hitters to a.176/.229/.302 line against over those eight games.
Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park was labeled “Zombie Night”- apparently in honor of the Phillies lineup.
Howard, late on Max Scherzer his first two times he stalked to the plate (also typical), was on time for a Scherzer fast ball in the seventh inning, sending it into the left-center field seats for a two-run homer.
Nationals: Baker gave rookie OF Trea Turner the day off to rest. Phillies 3B Maikel Franco is 0-for-8 in the series and 8-for-49 versus the Nationals this season.3.
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Thompson pitched well after a shaky start, but Jayson Werth hit a solo homer and the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0 on Monday night.
