The Nationals' 30-year-old rookie delivers their first walk-off win — in their 131st game of the season — providing a moment of joy in an otherwise tough campaign.
Meneses, their 30-year-old rookie and brightest spot since they traded their two best players a month ago, crushed a dreadful stat by lifting Norge Ruiz’s 2-2 breaking ball for a three-run homer. And once a 7-5 victory over Oakland was on the scoreboard, the remaining fans chanted Meneses’s first name, filling a mostly empty ballpark with little bits of joy.
To set up Meneses’s heroics, Keibert Ruiz singled in César Hernández and Lane Thomas walked with two down. The Nationals trailed by a run, meaning a single could have tied the game. But after falling behind on borderline pitches, Meneses got all of a slider at the bottom of the zone. Other supporting efforts for Washington on Thursday: Reliever Kyle Finnegan blanked the Athletics in the ninth; infielder Ildemaro Vargas poked a score-knotting single in the eighth; and Paolo Espino thrived for most of five innings, limiting Oakland with a steady diet of looping curves. But as has often been the case since the trade deadline, Meneses shined and the rest unfolded around him.
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