After a thrilling win on Saturday night, the Nationals wrapped up their first half of the season with one more game in Baltimore against the Orioles. In front of another sellout crowd, with great crowds all weekend, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Max Scherzer would take the mound for Washington. Like has been all season long, Scherzer was brilliant this afternoon.
The O's got on the scoreboard first as Adam Jones hit a home run, the only early miscue Scherzer made all afternoon. In the top of the fourth the Nats bats woke up. Yunel Escobar and Clint Robinson got on base and Dan Uggla singled on a line drive to centerfield to score Escobar. Then Tyler Moore smacked a double to right-center field to score Robinson and Uggla to take the lead 3-1. That would be all the Nats needed as they won 3-2.
The birds got that second run on another home run by Adam Jones with two outs in the ninth inning off of Scherzer that ultimately took him out of the game. Other than that, Scherzer pitched another great game going 8.2 innings and seven strikeouts.
Bryce Harper will represent the Nats on Tuesday night in the All Star Game at Cincinnati. Scherzer would have joined him but due to his start this afternoon he couldn't pitch in the ASG. After the All Star break the Nats will return to DC with a weekend series beginning Friday night against the Dodgers.
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