What lead the Nationals to a 10-6 victory over the first-place Dodgers: power. Keibert Ruiz blasts two home runs against his former team and the visitors hit five total in a 10-6 win over L.A. to finish their trip west 3-3.
That’s not an exhaustive list, either. But what did lead the Nationals to a 10-6 victory over the first-place Dodgers: power. Lots and lots of power.
The Dodgers, meanwhile, greeted Patrick Corbin with two homers in their first three at-bats . Betts lifted his second off Finnegan to begin the eighth. But in the end, the Nationals were on the right side of a full-on slugfest, using homers to paper over those mistakes and a rocky fifth inning for Corbin. And while that was certainly a sharp change of pace for Washington, it was“Home runs are going to come,” Candelario said.
“I’ve been hitting the ball hard, and I wasn’t getting the results that I wanted,” Ruiz said. “But I just got to keep doing what I’m doing, control what I can control, keep working hard in the gym, on my routine, and the results are going to be there.”Batting right-handed Tuesday, Ruiz ripped a high fastball inside the left field foul pole. Batting left-handed Wednesday, he knocked three hits and unlocked his power swing. He entered the game with a batting average on balls in play of .
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