Pittsburgh Pirates at Washington Nationals

· Major League Baseball

Pittsburgh Pirates

44-45, 21-23 Away

Final
5 - 9

Washington Nationals

46-43, 18-25 Home

García and Lile each homer twice as the Nationals rout the Pirates 9-5

Foster Griffin (9-2) allowed a run and four hits in five innings, lowering his ERA to 2.87 for the Nationals. Washington has won five of six.

Bryan Reynolds homered for Pittsburgh. Mitch Keller (6-6) allowed five runs and eight hits in six innings.

The temperature at game time was 100 degrees, and the ball was certainly carrying. García opened the scoring in the first with his 17th homer of the season, a solo shot to right. An inning later, Lile hit a 417-foot drive to center to make it 2-0.

Reynolds' solo homer to center in the third went 426 feet to get the Pirates on the board, but after James Wood led off the bottom half with a triple, Tena hit a two-run shot — also to center — that went 434 feet.

Lile's RBI double later that inning made it 5-1.

García connected again in the seventh, hitting a two-run shot off reliever Isaac Mattson. Lile's second homer was a two-run drive in the eighth.

Brandon Lowe, Reynolds and Esmerlyn Valdez hit consecutive RBI doubles in the ninth for the Pirates, and Nick Gonzales added another one an out later.

Griffin improved to 5-0 in his last nine starts, with the Nationals going 8-1 in those games. He's allowed one run or fewer in six straight outings, although he had only two strikeouts Friday, his fewest since April 11.

Up next Zack Littell (7-6, 5.29 ERA) starts for Washington against Pittsburgh's Braxton Ashcraft (8-3, 3.33) on Saturday in a July 4 game set to start at 11:05 a.m.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Mangum popped out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Gonzales doubled to right, Valdez scored.
	9th Inning	O'Hearn grounded out to pitcher, Valdez to third.
	9th Inning	Valdez doubled to right, Reynolds scored.
	9th Inning	Reynolds doubled to center, Lowe scored.
	9th Inning	Lowe doubled to right, Triolo scored.

Statistics

PIT		WSH
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	8
7	Strikeouts	2
5	Runs Batted In	9
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
13	Hits	12
4	Stolen Bases	1
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	9
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
40	At Bats	36
1	Home Runs	5
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
6	Doubles	2
19	Fly Balls	26
0	Caught Stealing	0
176	Pitches	141
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	1
22	Total Bases	31
43	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	810.0
7	Extra Base Hits	8
8.4	Runs Created	11.1
.325	Batting Average	.333
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.550	Slugging Percentage	.861
.400	Secondary Average	.639
.372	On Base Percentage	.385
.922	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.246
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.3
8.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	12.5
52.0	Batter Rating	70.5
40.0	At Bats Per Home Run	7.2
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.62
.225	Isolated Power	.528
0.43	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.50
.070	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.077
.075	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.306
10.0	Runs Produced	18.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.9
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.2
97.3	MLB Rating	114.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0