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Los Angeles Angels at Washington Nationals

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Nationals Park81°, Partly Cloudy17,061

Recap

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The Nationals snapped a seven-game losing skid on Friday with an eighth-inning rally that put them on top of the Angels -- one at-bat at a time. “You’ve got to be able to win games in different ways,” manager Blake Butera said after the 4-3 victory at Nationals Park. “And I think we did a good job of that tonight, playing really good baseball.” The Nationals came into the game with a 1-61 record when behind after seven innings. They trailed, 2-1, entering the eighth against the Angels.  The Nats’ first plate appearance of the inning wasn’t a home run or a speedy extra-base hit. It was a full-count walk by Brady House against Samy Natera Jr.  And that was just what Butera wanted to see to get a rally going. “Brady’s leadoff walk, that was an unbelievable at-bat,” Butera said. “It’s something that we’ve worked a ton with Brady on. … To be able to have that at-bat in that spot and set the tone for us and get on base there, that really started that inning, obviously. And then the rest of the guys followed suit.”  CJ Abrams got on base with a line-drive single. Dylan Crews put a season-long batting emphasis into motion and laid down a soft bunt to load the bases with no outs. “He \[hasn't been\

Team stats

4Hits6
1Home runs0
3Walks5
11Strikeouts9
1Stolen bases3
153Pitches thrown142
9Pitching strikeouts11

Box score

BattersABRHRBIHRBBSO
Kyren ParisPH1000000
Jose SiriPH1000000
Adam FrazierDH3010001
Vaughn Grissom1B3100010
Oswald PerazaPH0100010
Josh LoweRF2000002
Christian Moore2B4022001
Wade MecklerLF3000001
Denzer Guzman3B3000001
Zach NetoSS4000002
Moises BallesterosC2000011
Mike TroutCF3111102
Totals293431311
PitchersIPHRERBBSOHR
Ryan WatsonP1.0000020
Jose FerminP1.0000010
Luke MurphyP1.0000000
Samy Natera Jr.P1.0333110
Yusei KikuchiP4.0311450