Washington Nationals at Pittsburgh Pirates

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Washington Nationals

7-11, 2-7 Away

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Pittsburgh Pirates

7-12, 5-4 Home

Oneil Cruz hits his 1st career grand slam as the Pirates beat the Nationals 6-1

Benches clear between Nats-Pirates in 7th

Henry Davis also connected for Pittsburgh, which had dropped four of five. Isiah Kiner-Falefa had two hits and scored run.

Falter (1-2) allowed two hits in seven scoreless innings. It was the 10th time this season that a Pirates starter went six innings or more — tops in the majors.

Washington wasted a sharp performance by Mitchell Parker (2-1), who tossed six innings of one-run ball. The Nationals scored their only run on Alex Call's sacrifice fly in the ninth.

Pittsburgh jumped in front on Davis' first homer of the season — a solo shot off the foul pole in left in the fifth.

The Pirates made it 2-0 on a broken-bat groundout by Davis in the seventh, driving in Enmanuel Valdez. Third baseman Amed Rosario had to avoid Davis’ bat flying at him before he made a play to first.

The benches cleared in the seventh after a pitch by Jorge López went near Andrew McCutchen's head. López, who also hit Bryan Reynolds, was ejected.

Cruz's third homer of the season gave Pittsburgh a six-run lead.

Key moment There was a weird play in the bottom of the sixth. Tommy Pham hit a liner to left that was trapped by James Wood on a hop. Cruz went back to first not realizing what had happened, and Pham stopped running before reaching the base. Following a review, Cruz was safe and Pham was out.

Key stat Washington finished with three hits.

Up next Nationals right-hander Trevor Williams (1-1, 7.36 ERA) faces Pirates left-hander Andrew Heaney (0-1, 3.00 ERA) on Thursday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Wood lined out to third.
	9th Inning	Call hit sacrifice fly to center, Crews scored.
	9th Inning	Nuñez grounded out to shortstop, García Jr. to second, Crews to third.
	9th Inning	García Jr. walked, Crews to second.
	9th Inning	Crews singled to right.
	9th Inning	Shugart relieved Ferguson

Statistics

WSH		PIT
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
8	Ground Balls	11
3	Strikeouts	6
1	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
3	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	6
2	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
26	At Bats	32
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	1
5	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	15
1	Caught Stealing	0
109	Pitches	123
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
3	Total Bases	15
29	Plate Appearances	36
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
0	Extra Base Hits	3
-1.1	Runs Created	5.2
.115	Batting Average	.250
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.115	Slugging Percentage	.469
.038	Secondary Average	.281
.172	On Base Percentage	.333
.288	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.802
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
-1.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.9
7.0	Batter Rating	40.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	16.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.76	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.42
.000	Isolated Power	.219
0.67	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.069	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.056
-.077	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.031
2.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
61.0	MLB Rating	87.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0