Weather: 95 degrees, Partly Cloudy.
Wind: 5 mph, R To L.
Umpires: HP--Ripperger, 1B--Hoye, 2B--Danley, 3B--Wolcott.
Time: 3:24
Attendance: 30,571
Had Joe Ross hit one out of the park in his 14th-inning
pinch-hitting appearance Saturday night, the Nats would have scored 16 runs and
won the game by 1. They sort of made up for that Sunday afternoon, although
this time 16 runs proved to be major overkill.
On a day that was hot enough to draw folks in droves to the designated cooling
area in the Kennedy Room, the Nats hit 8 dingers to tie a team record first set
in 2017, also against the Brewers. The only starters who failed to join the
parade were pitcher Erick Fedde (who did lay down two nice sacrifice bunts),
plus Turner and Gomes, each of whom reached base 3 times. Juan Soto and Brian
Dozier each went yard twice, although Dozier’s second blast should get an
asterisk, since it came in the bottom of the 8th against Milwaukee
utility man Hernan Perez.
Fedde pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the first, then put up
zeroes the next two frames. By the time he took the mound in the 4th,
Washington had scored 4 in the 1st, 2 in the 2nd, and 7
in the 3rd. Milwaukee starting pitcher Chase Anderson gave up 10 of
the runs while recording only 7 outs. With the 13-run cushion, no one
particularly cared that Fedde was touched for a run in the 4th and 3
in the 5th, or that the visitors added 4 more meaningless tallies
against Kyle McGowin in the top of the 9th.
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