Tanner Roark and Aaron Nola matched one another with seven scoreless each to start the series finale in Nationals Park, but the Philadelphia Phillies struck first in the ninth scoring three runs and beating the Washington Nationals, 3-0 for a sweep of the three-game set.
Tanner Roark struck out fifteen Minnesota Twins' batters in seven scoreless innings last time out on the mound before today's start in the series finale with the Philadelphia Phillies.
This afternoon in the nation's capital, the Washington Nationals' 29-year-old right-hander and Philly righty Aaron Nola went at it in another pitchers' duel, with Roark running two-seamers back in on unsuspecting hitters and Nola dropping his well-nigh unhittable curve on the Nationals' batters.