{"id":797134,"date":"2026-09-05T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/797134\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:51:38","slug":"snell-throws-6-shutout-innings-and-tucker-ends-home-run-drought-as-dodgers-beat-nationals-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/797134\/","title":{"rendered":"Snell throws 6 shutout innings and Tucker ends home run drought as Dodgers beat Nationals 5-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES &#8212; Blake Snell tossed six scoreless innings, Kyle Tucker homered for the first time since Aug. 8 and the Los Angeles Dodgers held off the Washington Nationals 5-3 on Friday night in their series opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The NL West-leading Dodgers won their fifth in a row against the Nationals dating to June 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Snell (3-1) allowed five hits and struck out seven. Leading 4-0, he gave up back-to-back hits to open the sixth but retired the next three batters to end the threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tucker&#8217;s 12th homer of the season and first at home since mid-June off reliever Luis Perales made it 5-0 in the sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Dodgers opened a four-run cushion when Alex Call, the designated hitter in <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-f29371550e3eb6749edb0d2ed568d0db\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s absence<\/a>, doubled and scored from third on an error by shortstop Nasim Nu\u00f1ez, who dropped a ball hit by Tommy Edman, who was safe at first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Los Angeles took a 3-0 lead on Mookie Betts&#8217; RBI single and Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s two-run double off Nationals starter Jackson Kent (1-3) in the third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Washington got three straight hits off reliever Seth Halvorsen to open the ninth. Brady House doubled and scored on pinch-hitter Abimelec Ortiz&#8217;s single. Ortiz moved to third on pinch-hitter Jos\u00e9 Tena&#8217;s single. Jack Dreyer came on and Ortiz scored on Jorbit Vivas&#8217; groundout to second. James Wood&#8217;s RBI double scored Tena, making it 5-3, before Dreyer secured his sixth career save and second this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kent gave up four runs and four hits in five innings, striking out four and walking four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nationals RHP Cade Cavalli (12-5, 3.12 ERA) starts Saturday against Dodgers RHP Tyler Glasnow (4-0, 2.79).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here\" rel=\"nofollow\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8212; Blake Snell tossed six scoreless innings, Kyle Tucker homered for the first time since Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4,256,185],"class_list":["post-797134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117217583716702940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797134","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=797134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}