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Ethier leads the majors with 24 RBIs, one more than Kemp, who stranded two runners in scoring position when he grounded out against Ryan Mattheus to end the seventh.
"I'm going to try to keep pace with Kemp any way I can," Ethier said. "Obviously, that's what's expected of us and what we expect of ourselves. That's why Kemp and I are sitting 3-4 in the middle of the lineup, to be productive and get runs across. Other guys will pick each other up as the season goes on, but I think they're doing a good enough job themselves to get on base and score runs."
Kemp and Ethier opened the fourth with singles and both runners advanced on Kershaw's sacrifice bunt before Juan Uribe beat out a single to deep shortstop to make it 3-0. But the Nationals broke through against Kershaw in the sixth with a leadoff walk to Jayson Werth and Adam LaRoche's home run into the right-field bullpen on an 0-2 pitch.
"They're a little bit depleted in their offense because of injuries, but they put some good at-bats together," Kershaw said. "I just hung a slider to LaRoche and he did what he was supposed to do with it."
NOTES: A moment of silence was observed in memory of former Dodger Bill "Moose" Skowron, who died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 81. ... The Dodgers recalled RHP Nathan Eovaldi from Double-A Chattanooga and optioned LHP Michael Antonini to Triple-A Albuquerque. ... Washington's three starting pitchers in this series -- Detwiler, Stephen Strasburg and Gio Gonzalez -- all came in with 2-0 records and ERAs under 1.53. ... Before LaRoche's third homer of the season, no one on the Nationals' roster had hit more than two home runs -- making them the only team with that dubious distinction. ... Ethier's homer was his first off a left-handed pitcher in 75 at-bats since his solo shot against San Diego's Josh Spence on July 10, 2011, at Dodger Stadium.
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