WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. broke a fifth-inning tie with a two-run homer and the Washington Nationals defeated the Seattle Mariners 8-3 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
CJ Abrams had three hits and two RBIs for Washington (36-35), which improved to 13-21 at Nationals Park after losing its previous four home games. Abrams also scored twice.<\/p>\n
Colt Emerson homered for the second consecutive game for the AL West-leading Mariners, who are 4-5 on a 10-game trip to Detroit, Baltimore and Washington.<\/p>\n
With the score tied at 3 in the fifth, James Wood hit a sharp single to third that was originally ruled an error. Garc\u00eda then ripped Luis Castillo\u2019s changeup 408 feet to right-center for his ninth homer this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Abrams helped expand the lead in the seventh with an RBI single<\/a> before scoring when reliever Eduard Bazardo\u2019s pickoff attempt trickled off runner Dylan Crews into foul territory. Washington made it 8-3 when Crews scored from first<\/a> on Jos\u00e9 Tena\u2019s single to center.<\/p>\n Nationals starter Cade Cavalli (4-4) allowed three runs and struck out five in five innings.<\/p>\n Washington scored three unearned runs in the first against Castillo (2-6). Garc\u00eda reached on first baseman Josh Naylor\u2019s error, then scored on Abrams\u2019 two-out single. Daylen Lile followed with a triple to right before coming home on Crews\u2019 single.<\/p>\n Castillo yielded five runs in 5 2\/3 innings while striking out four.<\/p>\n Washington RHP Miles Mikolas (1-5, 5.90 ERA) and Seattle RHP Emerson Hancock (5-2, 2.74) are scheduled to start Sunday in the finale of the three-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. broke a fifth-inning tie with a two-run homer and the Washington Nationals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,3573,497,566,18522,565,3539,94,331,2098,17830,12344,4,415,9500,9501,9496,9497,39139,39140,22860,83366,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-725480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-cj-abrams","tag-dylan-crews","tag-eduard-bazardo","tag-james-wood","tag-jose-tena","tag-josh-naylor","tag-luis-castillo","tag-luis-garcia","tag-mariners-nationals-score","tag-mitch-garver","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","tag-product-40818-ap-virginia-sports-only","tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725480","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=725480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}