{"id":189412,"date":"2025-07-20T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/189412\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:22:15","slug":"lowe-homers-as-nationals-defeat-padres-4-2-to-snap-5-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/189412\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowe homers as Nationals defeat Padres 4-2 to snap 5-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Lowe homered and the Washington Nationals snapped a five-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AP25201026855724-480x320.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                            Washington Nationals pitcher Mitchell Parker throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Daniel Kucin Jr.)(AP\/Daniel Kucin Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AP25201026855724-780x520.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                                Washington Nationals pitcher Mitchell Parker throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Daniel Kucin Jr.)(AP\/Daniel Kucin Jr.)<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nathaniel Lowe homered and the Washington Nationals snapped a five-game losing streak Saturday with a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Parker earned his first win at home since May 20 for Washington, which had dropped nine of 10.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00edn Maldonado and Luis Arraez each drove in a run for San Diego (53-45).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nationals\/status\/1946744899132330275\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lowe ripped a fastball to center field<\/a> off reliever Yuki Matsui in the sixth inning for his 15th homer \u2014 one shy of his total last year with Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Parker (6-10) allowed two runs in six innings while striking out four. The left-hander had lost seven of his last nine starts, with the only victory in that span coming June 23 at San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Finnegan worked the ninth for his 19th save.<\/p>\n<p>Washington went up 2-0 on Drew Millas\u2019 two-run single in the second.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres evened it in the third when Maldonado\u2019s double to deep left-center glanced off Jacob Young\u2019s glove to bring in Jose Iglesias. Two batters later, Maldonado scored on Arraez\u2019s single.<\/p>\n<p>CJ Abrams\u2019 run-scoring grounder in the fifth put the Nationals ahead 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Darvish (0-2) allowed three runs in five innings, the longest of his three outings since missing the first three months of the season with elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of rain delayed the start of the game by 65 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>With one out in the eighth, Nationals reliever Jose A. Ferrer fielded Gavin Sheets\u2019 comebacker and threw home to trap Fernando Tatis Jr. in a rundown. Tatis was initially ruled safe back at third, but the call was overturned and Ferrer then got Xander Bogaerts to fly out on the first pitch to end the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Finnegan ended the Nationals\u2019 streak of 34 games without a save. Finnegan recorded Washington\u2019s previous save June 6 against Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>San Diego RHP Nick Pivetta (9-2, 2.88 ERA), who threw seven shutout innings June 25 against Washington, faces LHP MacKenzie Gore (4-8, 3.02) when the three-game series concludes Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Lowe homered and the Washington Nationals snapped a five-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,495,43,137,18,4339,4338,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-189412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nathaniel-lowe","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sandiegopadres","16":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114883890079528605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}