Nationals fail to bunch hits in 5-3 loss to the Padres

Mark Trumbo hit a three-run homer, Manny Machado added a solo shot and the Orioles gave rookie Dylan Bundy his first major league victory as a starter.

“This” is a streak of 20 games in a row with a homer – the longest in the National League this season.

“I don’t know if I have an advantage or disadvantage”, Jackson said of facing his former team.

Perdomo (4-4) gave up two first-inning runs, then limited the Nationals to two hits over the final six innings of his longest outing.

“It is always fun to come back, especially after that run we had in 2012” with a division title, he said.

The skipper cited a single hitter in each of the past two games that destroyed the Nationals: Justin Turner, who went 2 for 3 with 2 home runs and 5 RBIs in the Dodgers’ 6-3 win on Thursday, and Matt Kemp, who went 2 for 4 with 2 home runs and 4 RBIs in the Padres’ 5-3 win on Friday. “But you need some timely two-out hits or two or three consecutive hits, which we aren’t getting”.

The losing pitcher was Roark (9-6), who had his worst outing since allowing five runs in three innings on June 5 at Cincinnati.

Perdomo entered the game – his first ever against Washington – with a 7.36 ERA but allowed just four hits in the first five innings.

“He has good stuff. good slider, good change”, Kemp said of Roark.

Both teams were warned after Washington’s Oliver Perez hit Brett Wallace with a pitch to open the ninth. Wilson Ramos had three singles for the Nationals.

The Nationals were not done as Bryce Harper had a two-out single, stole second and scored on an RBI single by Ramos to make it 2-1. After Ryan Schimpf walked, Kemp homered to centre off a 2-1 Roark fastball for his 22nd of the season.

Brad Hand entered to start the eighth for the Padres and gave up a one-out solo homer to Daniel Murphy, which cut the lead to 5-3.

Kemp made it 1-0 when he deposited Roark’s 3-1 pitch into the Padres’ bullpen.

“He left a couple of (fastballs) up there in the zone”, Kemp said of his home runs.

Werth tied it in the bottom of the first with a line shot to centre. 1B Ryan Zimmerman (left ribcage strain) went 1 for 5 with a two-run single and four strikeouts Friday night in his second rehab game with Potomac. The Padres signed Cuban outfielder Jorge Ona, 19, for a reported signing bonus of $7 million, according to MLB.com. Ona, 19, was ranked by MLB.com as the No. 8 worldwide prospect in the 2016 class and ranked by Baseball America as the fourth-best Cuban player available earlier this year. Over his nine appearances (one start) and 1-1 record, Jackson holds a 4.76 ERA with a 1.47 WHIP in 17 innings of work.

In his last start on Sunday, Scherzer allowed one run and did not figure in the decision as the Nationals lost 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 18 innings.