Washington came back from a late two-run deficit to take the opener of a series in Minnesota.
On Friday night, the Nationals finally capitalized. With Washington trailing the Minnesota Twins by a run in the eighth inning, Lane Thomas hit a two-out single that scored CJ Abrams to tie the game. Keibert Ruiz — who was moved up to second in the team’s lineup Friday — followed with a go-ahead RBI single to give the Nationals a“They were trying to stay on the ball and put the ball in play,” Manager Dave Martinez said about the at-bats. “Both came up with big hits.
Later in the third, Ryan Jeffers hit a line drive into the right-center field gap that Thomas or Victor Robles could have caught. But both stopped running, thinking the other would get to the ball, and it dropped in for a double. Former National Michael A. Taylor bunted Jeffers over to third. Then Max Kepler showed patience in a seven-pitch at-bat, waiting for a pitch from Trevor Williams in the zone that he popped up to right field for a sacrifice fly.
The Nationals had only two hits until Abrams hit a 49.9-mph double that got through the infield because of a shift. Thomas stepped to the plate with the team’s first opportunity to hit with a runner in scoring position. He laid off a pair of sweepers in the dirt from Griffin Jax, worked a 3-1 count and poked a single between the shortstop and third baseman to tie the score.
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