Washington Nationals at Los Angeles Angels

· Major League Baseball

Washington Nationals

34-49, 18-25 Away

Final
2 - 8

Los Angeles Angels

41-41, 20-19 Home

Trout hits tying homer and Newman adds 3-run shot in 7th as Angels beat Nationals

Washington Nationals vs. Los Angeles Angels: Game Highlights

Kyle Hendricks gave up one run in five innings and rookie Christian Moore delivered the go-ahead single with two outs in the seventh. Gustavo Campero also homered for the Angels.

CJ Abrams went deep for the Nationals, and Michael Soroka pitched six innings of two-hit ball.

Washington took a 2-1 lead in the seventh on Riley Adams’ RBI single off Ryan Zeferjahn (5-1). Trout connected against Zach Brzykcy (0-1) leading off the bottom half for his 13th home run.

Los Angeles then sent 11 more batters to the plate in the inning, with Taylor Ward (double), Jo Adell (single) and Moore contributing important hits. Newman, batting ninth, launched his first homer this season off Eduardo Salazar for a 6-2 lead.

Luis Rengifo’s double and Ward’s bases-loaded walk made it 7-2. Campero homered in the eighth.

The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the second when Ward was hit by a pitch and scored on Logan O’Hoppe’s double-play grounder. The Nationals tied it in the fifth on Abrams’ 12th homer.

Soroka struck out five and walked one in a no-decision.

Key moment Salazar struck out O’Hoppe and got Zach Neto to pop out with runners on first and third in the seventh and was one strike from escaping the jam when Moore hammered a 1-2 fastball above the zone for an RBI single and a 3-2 Angels lead.

Key stat Soroka entered with a 3.49 ERA through five innings and a 22.85 ERA in the sixth. But after giving up Newman’s leadoff single in the sixth, the right-hander started a 1-6-3 double play on Rengifo’s grounder and got Nolan Schanuel to pop out to preserve a 1-all tie.

Up next Nationals left-hander Mitchell Parker (5-8, 4.59 ERA) opposes Angels right-hander Jack Kochanowicz (3-8, 5.49) in Sunday’s series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Abrams lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Young grounded out to shortstop, Lile to third.
	9th Inning	Adams grounded out to third, Lile to second.
	9th Inning	Lile singled to right.
	9th Inning	Bachman relieved Detmers
	8th Inning	Newman grounded out to shortstop.

Statistics

WSH		LAA
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
9	Ground Balls	10
7	Strikeouts	6
2	Runs Batted In	7
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	9
1	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	8
1	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
19	Fly Balls	15
0	Caught Stealing	0
128	Pitches	156
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
13	Total Bases	20
37	Plate Appearances	36
162.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
2	Extra Base Hits	5
3.8	Runs Created	6.8
.257	Batting Average	.290
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.371	Slugging Percentage	.645
.200	Secondary Average	.484
.297	On Base Percentage	.389
.669	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.034
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
3.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.7
23.0	Batter Rating	52.0
35.0	At Bats Per Home Run	10.3
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.46	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.33
.114	Isolated Power	.355
0.29	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.054	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
-.057	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.194
4.0	Runs Produced	15.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
77.5	MLB Rating	97.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0