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The Washington Nationals had a 3-0 lead that they blew, and then fell behind in this game by a score of 4-3. In the 8th inning, CJ Abrams pounded a clutch 2-run homer to notch the win in this series against the Mets.
The team got 5.0 innings of 1-run baseball from the bullpen, and the starter, Miles Mikolas, received some great defense like a James Wood‘s home run robbery off of Juan Soto‘s bat. Later in the game, Wood would dive to rob another ball.
To finish off the game, it was Gus Varland with the save going 1⅓ innings in relief of Richard Lovelady who earned the hold. Mitchell Parker got the win in his 3.0 innings of relief. Mikolas was good for 2 2/3 innings before he put two runners on-base with two outs and surrendered a 3-run homer.
For the Nats runs, Abrams drove in three of the four runs, and Jacob Young drove in the other with an oppo single. The Nats only had seven hits in the game, and Luis Garcia Jr. and Abrams had two each.
“Such a big spot there for [CJ Abrams]. Huge for CJ. Huge for the team. He’s such a leader.”
— manager Blake Butera said in the postgame
As we have seen with this Nats team, they don’t give up in close games. They collared Luke Weaver with a blown save and a loss. The Nats head back to Washington, D.C. with a 15-17 record and another winning road trip. With today’s win, the Nats have won back-to-back series at CitiField for the first time since Sept. 22-24, 2017 and April 16-18, 2018. The Nats are now an impressive 12-7 on the road.
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