Weather: 81 degrees, Sunny.
Wind: 5 mph, In From LF.
Umpires: HP--Welke, 1B--Muchlinski, 2B--Drake, 3B--Timmons.
Time: 3:03
Attendance: 29,350
After being outscored 15-1 in the first two games of the weekend
series, pretty much extinguishing any faint hope the Nationals had of catching
the first-place Braves, Washington got a small measure of revenge Sunday
afternoon and kept pace in the standings with their Wild Card challengers.
Former Brave Anibal Sanchez was brilliant, going 7 innings and not allowing an
Atlanta runner to reach second base other than Freddie Freeman, who doubled
with two outs in the first. Hunter Strickland handled the 8th, while
Doolittle pitched a 1-2-3 9th, albeit with all 3 outs coming on long
fly balls.
Atlanta lefty Max Fried had owned the Nats 10 days earlier, allowing
only one baserunner in his 7 scoreless innings. This Sunday, however, the
tables were turned. The onslaught started in the second, when Kendrick singled,
Robles doubled, and Yan Gomes got a ground ball through the infield to score
both. Fried would be gone an inning later, after Kendrick’s two-run single with
the bases loaded and a walk to Brian Dozier. Reliever Jeremy Walker then walked
Robles on 5 pitches to force in Washington’s 5th run. Kendrick
continued his big day with a solo homer two innings later, and Robles scored on
an odd inning-ending double play in the 6th to finish the scoring.
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