Robbie Ray continues success as Giants clip Nationals
May 25 - Robbie Ray continued his strong season with six solid innings and the visiting San Francisco Giants earned a 3-2 victory over the Washington Nationals 3-2 in the deciding game of a three-game series.
Ray (7-0) allowed a run on three hits and struck out seven without a walk. The left-hander is 4-0 with a 1.13 ERA and 36 strikeouts in 32 innings in May.
The Giants have gone 10-1 in Ray's starts this season.
CJ Abrams and James Wood doubled in the ninth to pull the Nationals within 3-2 with one out but Ryan Walker retired Nathaniel Lowe on a strikeout and Alex Call on a fly out to complete his 10th save.
Sam Huff homered for the Giants and Mike Yastrzemski tripled and scored a run.
Washington starter Michael Soroka (1-2) went six innings in his fifth start of the season, allowing three runs on five hits. He struck out two and walked one.
Wilmer Flores was hit by a pitch leading off the San Francisco second inning and Matt Chapman singled him to third. Willy Adames was retired on a dribbler up the first-base line as Flores scored the game's first run.
Lowe doubled to open the Nationals half of the second inning but he was unable to advance as Ray retired the next three batters.
Huff led off the third with a shot to left that bounced off the top of the wall and into the Giants' bullpen for a home run. Yastrzemski followed with a triple off the wall in center and scored when Heliot Ramos grounded to short to make it 3-0.
The Nationals' Nasim Nunez opened the bottom of the third with a single, went to second on a ground out, stole third and scored on a wild pitch to pull the Nationals within 3-1.
The Giants' Jung Hoo Lee led off the sixth with a single but Flores grounded into a double play. The Nationals' Amed Rosario doubled with two outs in the sixth, but Ray struck out Wood.
Tyler Fitzgerald walked and stole second with one out in the seventh. With two outs, he went to third when Yastrzemski reached on an error, but Ramos struck out.
--Field Level Media
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