Jimenez gets 100th career victory, Orioles beat Nationals

Not only did the veteran right-hander keep Baltimore alive in a longshot bid to make the playoffs, but Jimenez became just the 11th Dominican-born pitcher to win 100 games in the majors as Baltimore beat the Washington Nationals 4-1.

After last night’s postponement, the Orioles will again attempt to begin a three-game series with the Nationals in the nation’s capital, which means the paid attendance and viewers get to watch pitchers pretend to be hitters.

“I’m human, though”, Jones said.

The Nationals remained 6 1-2 games behind the first-place Mets, who lost to Atlanta 6-2, in the NL East.

Jimenez walked five, but allowed just an unearned run on three hits while also striking out five.

Time is rapidly running out on the faint postseason aspirations of both the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles. “That’s a little bit more than you want to”. It was the second hit of the season in six at-bats for Jimenez, who entered this season with a lifetime batting average of.113 in 274 at-bats. “Not even thinking about that”, he said through a translator.

Monday’s opener was postponed by rain.

Jimenez pitched six gritty innings to earn his 100th career win and added an RBI single.

Chris Tillman will start Wednesday and Tyler Wilson will start Thursday for Baltimore.

Harper got three free passes that upped his season total to 118, passing Adam Dunn’s mark of 116 in 2009.

Michael Taylor had two hits for Washington, which had won seven of eight.

Diamondbacks 8, Dodgers 0 – Robbie Ray pitched six innings of three-hit ball, A.J. Pollock and Paul Goldschmidt hit back-to-back homers in the seventh, and Arizona won in Los Angeles. “We will do that tonight”.

Gio Gonzalez served up four runs over 4 2/3 innings, taking the loss on Tuesday versus the Orioles.

Bird connected off reliever Mark Lowe for the rookie’s 10th home run in 34 games and third in the past three nights. Jimenez’s line: 6 IP, 3 H, 1 R (0 earned), 5 BB, 5 K. Regarding those walks, some of them were well-earned on Jimenez’s part.

Lake was charged with an error when he dropped a liner off the bat of Clint Robinson in the fourth. Danny Espinosa (right hamstring strain) will have an MRI Tuesday.

“Given the rainout, we can look at some things (with the rotation)”, said Williams, declining to be very specific. RHP Jordan Zimmermann could have been moved ahead of RHP Tanner Roark to pitch Thursday’s makeup game with Baltimore on normal rest, but has a stiff neck and will pitch Friday as planned. The last was one of his best, as the left-hander matched a career high with 12 strikeouts over seven innings in Wednesday’s 12-2 win at Philadelphia.