WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Revere doubled in the winning run with two outs in the 14th inning, and the Washington Nationals outlasted the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on Friday night for their sixth straight victory.
Revere’s liner off the wall in right-center off Ross Ohlendorf (5-6) scored Danny Espinosa, who was hit by a pitch to start the inning.
Yusmeiro Petit (3-1), the sixth Washington pitcher, worked two innings for the win.
The last-place Reds have lost five straight and nine of 10. They battled for 4 hours, 30 minutes before falling in this one.
Bryce Harper had two singles for Washington, but one of them probably should have been at least a double. Leading off the fourth, the reigning NL MVP hit a liner that appeared headed for the seats but instead struck the top of the wall in center field. Harper admired the drive too long, and was barely past first base by the time the ball was returned to the infield.
Nationals starter Tanner Roark allowed two runs and eight hits over seven innings. He struck out four and walked two.
Cincinnati’s Anthony DeSclafani gave up two runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings, striking out eight.
DeSclafani left after Washington put runners on the corners with two outs in the seventh and the scored tied at 2. Raisel Iglesias entered and retired Jayson Werth on a hard-hit grounder.
DeSclafani, who began the season on the disabled list with a strained left oblique, is 2-0 with a 1.78 ERA in five starts since his return on June 10.
Two singles and a sacrifice fly by Daniel Murphy put Washington up 1-0 in the first and ended DeSclafani’s scoreless streak at 13 innings.
Tucker Barnhart tied it for the Reds with an RBI single in the second.
Cincinnati went up 2-1 in the sixth on a run-scoring single by Adam Duvall, but a two-out double by Murphy tied it in the bottom half.
Tigers 10, Rays 2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Michael Fulmer continued his historic rookie pitching run for the Detroit Tigers, and Victor Martinez contributed three-run home runs from both sides of the plate in a 10-2 romp over the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night.
Fulmer (8-2) gave up two hits in seven shutout innings as the Tigers won their fourth straight. Fulmer became the first Detroit pitcher since 1913 to give up one run or fewer in eight straight starts.
“Every night he pitches he’s been giving us a really good chance to win ballgames,” Martinez said. “That’s what you ask for.”
Fulmer struck out 10 and walked one, giving up singles to Cory Dickerson in the second inning and Logan Morrison in the seventh.
“It’s pretty cool,” Fulmer said of his eight-game streak, during which he is 6-1 with a 0.53 ERA. “My mind is just to a win a ball game anyway I can so if I can throw up zeroes, that’s just a bonus. It’s a team game, and the way we’re playing right now, with the offense putting up 10 runs a night, it makes everybody else just relax and have fun playing this game.”
In two wins against the Rays, Fulmer has struck out 21 of the 49 batters he has faced.
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