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Washington snapped a two-game losing streak by
out-hitting Chicago 10-8 and overcoming three errors.
The Nationals broke the game open with a three-run eighth behind
three hits, one walk, a sacrifice fly and a stolen base.
Four Nationals relievers combined on four scoreless innings.
Kyle Finnegan sidestepped two singles in the ninth for his major
league-leading 13th save.
Both starting pitchers took no-decisions.
Washington's Trevor Williams allowed three runs (one earned) in
five innings while walking one and striking out two. Chicago
counterpart Chris Flexen gave up three runs and seven hits in 4
2/3 innings with one walk and five strikeouts.
Derek Law (3-1) pitched a scoreless seventh for the win. John
Brebbia (0-2) took the loss, allowing three runs in 1 1/3
innings.
The White Sox scored first, as Eloy Jimenez connected for a solo
home run against Williams to lead off the second inning. It was
his fifth homer of the season and first since May 5.
Washington grabbed the advantage with a three-run fifth,
capitalizing on a series of hits, alert baserunning and a White
Sox defensive miscue.
With two outs, Eddie Rosario hit an RBI single to right field to
score Trey Lipscomb, who singled to start the inning and was
sacrificed to second base. Chicago's Gavin Sheets missed the
cutoff man on Rosario's, allowing Rosario to advance to second
base and send CJ Abrams to third.
Meneses followed with a two-run single to left.
Chicago responded in the bottom half, benefiting from three
errors to score twice -- on Braden Shewmake's sacrifice fly and
Tommy Pham's run-scoring single. The Nationals have committed 13
errors in the past seven games.
Lipscomb went 3-for-3 and Rosario extended his hitting streak to
eight games for Washington. Pham had two hits for Chicago.
White Sox third baseman Bryan Ramos left the game in the seventh
inning with tightness in his left quadriceps. Zach Remillard
entered as a defensive replacement.
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