Washington Nationals at Detroit Tigers

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Washington Nationals

32-36, 19-19 Away

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Detroit Tigers

33-35, 16-19 Home

Tigers rally in 7th inning to end Nationals' 5-game win streak with 7-2 victory

After striking out with the bases loaded in the third inning, Malloy was hitting .143 in the first 10 days of his big-league career.

“There's no lack of confidence with him — ever,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “But you still have to do it. It's great for him to have this first breakout game — now he can relax his shoulders a little bit.”

Malloy hit his second career homer in the sixth and added a two-run double in the seventh.

“It's always nice to avoid getting swept and take a win into a road trip,” said Malloy, who replaced Spencer Torkelson in the lineup. “I was able to go out there and put a nice swing on a couple balls.”

The Tigers had lost five of six while the Nationals were trying for their longest winning streak since an eight-game run from Sept. 23-29, 2019, — the season they won the World Series.

Detroit's Casey Mize allowed one run and four hits in six innings, while Patrick Corbin gave up a run in 5 1/3 innings.

Shelby Miller (4-4) picked up the win, allowing one run in 1 1/3 relief innings.

The Tigers took a 1-0 lead on Mark Canha's RBI single in the third inning, but Washington tied the score on Ildemaro Vargas' sacrifice fly in the fourth.

Malloy gave the Tigers a 2-1 lead in the sixth with a homer off Derek Law (3-2), but Vargas made it 2-2 in the seventh with another sacrifice fly. It was Washington's sixth sacrifice fly in the three-game series, including three from Vargas.

“We've started understanding how to drive in runners from third with less than two outs,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “We've struggled before, but if we keep doing that, some of them will turn into doubles.”

Detroit scored five runs in the seventh. With one out, Ryan Kreidler and Matt Vierling looped singles into center field. Andy Ibanez hit an RBI double before Canha made it 4-2 with a sacrifice fly.

Robert Garcia replaced Law, but Riley Greene hit a ground single up the middle, scoring Ibanez. Malloy added a two-run double later in the inning.

“We were leaving guys on base — it was ‘bend but not break’ from Corbin — but we were able to get through it in the seventh with a lot of quality at-bats,” Hinch said.

Washington's best relievers weren't available after pitching key innings in wins on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“We've relied on (Law and Garcia) throughout the whole year and they've done really well,” Martinez said. “It just didn't happen today.”

Lane Thomas was ejected by home plate umpire Emil Jimenez after arguing a called third strike in the sixth inning.

Nationals: Washington returns home for a three-game series with the Miami Marlins. Left-hander MacKenzie Gore (5-5, 3.57) will start on Friday.

Tigers: Travel to Houston for a weekend series. Tigers ace Tarik Skubal (8-1, 1.92) will face Hunter Brown (2-5, 5.58).

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Matchup Prediction

Tigers: 62.3%

Nationals: 37.7%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	L. García Jr. struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Meneses struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Lipscomb struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Chafin relieved Holton
	9th Inning	Lipscomb hit for Rosario
	8th Inning	Vierling grounded out to second.

Statistics

WSH		DET
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
8	Ground Balls	12
8	Strikeouts	6
2	Runs Batted In	7
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	10
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	7
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
2	Sacrifice Flies	1
29	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
7	Runners Left On Base	13
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	2
15	Fly Balls	14
1	Caught Stealing	0
133	Pitches	155
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
7	Total Bases	15
33	Plate Appearances	37
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
1.1	Runs Created	5.9
.172	Batting Average	.323
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.241	Slugging Percentage	.484
.103	Secondary Average	.290
.212	On Base Percentage	.405
.454	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.889
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
1.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.7
17.0	Batter Rating	46.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.03	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.19
.069	Isolated Power	.161
0.25	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.061	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.081
-.069	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.032
4.0	Runs Produced	14.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
67.8	MLB Rating	93.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0