August 5, 2015 – Diamondbacks 11, Nationals 4 – Nationals Park

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/141445316/d-backs-capitalize-take-off-to-rout-nationals?game_pk=415252

 

Attendance: 37,572

Game Time: 3:56

Weather: 87 degrees, clear

Wind: 5 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Gabe Morales, First Base - Tripp Gibson, Second Base - Brian Gorman, Third Base - Mark Carlson

Seventh-inning stretch song: It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones

 

Highlights – in the top of the first, Nats took maximum advantage of leadoff Escobar double and subsequent walks to Rendon and Harper, scoring 2 runs on sac flies by Zimmerman and Werth … Gio battled out of trouble throughout, fanning 7 and allowing the Diamondbacks to cross the plate only once before being lifted after yielding a leadoff single in the top of the sixth … Tyler Moore came in to face Paul Goldschmidt with one out in the ninth and got him out, then finished the inning without allowing a hit

 

Other – in short, one of the longest and ugliest games of the season … after taking the lead in the bottom of the first, Nats offense failed to score again until the bottom of the ninth, when they were 9 runs down … Aaron Barrett and Tanner Roark allowed the D-backs to take a 5-2 lead in the sixth after Gio’s departure, featuring a thrown-away bunt by the former and two consecutive walks to force in a run by the latter … Thornton and Rivero completed the bullpen meltdown by giving up 3 runs each in the 8^th and 9^th, respectively