Nats power up, speed up to down Dodgers

Bryce Harper hammers a two-run home run to the third deck in right field, giving the Nationals a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st inningNationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez got off to a slow start. By the second inning, he had thrown 42 pitches, and Los Angeles took advantage, scoring its only run in that inning when Scott Van Slyke scored on a single by Charlie Culberson to cut the lead in half. Gonzalez went on to pitch six innings and allow the one run on three hits.

It was all Nats after that. Norris was on the mound in the fifth inning when Ben Revere and Jayson Werth hit back-to-back home runs to make it a 4-1 game. This is the 12th time this season the Nationals have hit back-to-back…