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The Nationals dropped to 4 1/2 games behind the Mets in the National League East race.

The Nationals acquired Turner in the three-team deal that sent Steven Sousa to the Tampa Bay Rays. Additionally, right-hander Aaron Barrett was transferred to the 60-day disabled list with a right elbow sprain.

Footnote. In Monday’s and Tuesday’s games against the Nationals, the Rockies walked 19 batters. He allowed one unearned run and two hits in seven innings with no walks and five strikeouts.

Colorado scored three runs in the first, two on right fielder Carlos Gonzalez’s 28th homer and a third on Desmond’s error.

Ryan Vogelsong pitched six innings of two-hit ball and ace Madison Bumgarner keyed a seventh-inning rally with his first career pinch hit, helping the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 on Tuesday night.

The Bumgarner’s all-around day is detailed in the game story, along with his matching a feat no San Francisco Giants pitcher had since Juan Marichal, who was in the stands Sunday. The Nationals received a scare Tuesday when star right fielder Bryce Harper sat out with a...

Yes, that was Bumgarner striking out the Washington star on three consecutive fastballs in the ninth inning of the Giants’ 5-0 win Sunday.

For the second time in a week, our bullpen got a day pass courtesy of our number one starter. Picking up the first hit of the ball game was Blanco with a hard ground ball to the right of the second baseman.

San Francisco’s bullpen has allowed three hits over 8 1/3 scoreless innings in the first two games of the series and might have an emerging star in rookie Josh Osich, who has yielded one earned run in his first 12 appearances.

He entered Tuesday night’s game against the Washington Nationals hitting.

The San Francisco Giants simply took care of what they needed to do on Thursday getting the win over the Nationals.

LOS ANGELES – Somebody asked Yasiel Puig if he remembers the last time he drove in five runs in a game.

The Dodgers did strike for three runs on a two-out, pinch-hit homer by Carl Crawford.

They just did not look like it against Washington starter Stephen Strasburg.

His three doubles tied a franchise record.