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Washington Nationals drop nightcap to San Francisco Giants in extras, 2-1 final

Washington’s Nationals got four scoreless innings out of starte Jefry Rodríguez, in the right-hander’s first start in the majors since 2019, but they didn’t get much going offensively against San Francisco’s relief corps on a bullpen day for the visiting club in the nightcap of today’s doubleheader in Nationals Park.

It was a 0-0 game in D.C. through seven, so they went to extras, and the Giants drove their free runner in and added another run in a 2-1 win.

Rodriguez vs the Giants: Jefry Rodríguez, 27, signed with the Washington Nationals as an amateur free agent out of the Dominican Republic in 2012, debuted in the majors in 2018, and was traded to Cleveland in the Yan Gomes deal that winter, before re-signing in D.