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Washington Nationals 9-7 in extras to earn split of two-game set with Tampa Bay Rays

Juan Soto hit a two-run shot to center in the first. Ryan Zimmerman hit a solo shot in the top of the third, sending an opposite field home run to right, then hit a second homer with Soto on in the fifth, this time to left-center.

Washington Nationals were up 5-3 after five innings in Tropicana Field, but the Tampa Bay Rays rallied with solo home runs by both Taylor Walls and Joey Wendle, in the 7th and 8th, respectively, which tied it up at 5-5.

It stayed that way until extras, when Yan Gomes drove in a run with a one-out single to right field to put the Nationals up 6-5, and a sac fly by Kyle Schwarber made it a 7-5 game, but a rally by the Rays in the bottom of the tenth tied it back up at 7-7, before the visiting team put up two in the top of the eleventh and held on for a 9-7 win.