Washington Nationals’ starter Jon Lester allowed two earned runs or fewer in each of his past five starts going into last night’s outing against the Miami Marlins in loadDepot park, with a 2.55 ERA, seven walks, 17 strikeouts, and a .267/.315/.436 line against in 24 2⁄3 innings on the mound over that stretch.
The veteran lefty, in his 16th big league season, earned his first win of the 2021 campaign the last time out before taking on the Marlins, in a 6-2 win over the New York Mets in the nation’s capital in which he gave up a total of seven hits and two earned runs in six innings pitched.