“Let’s try to score some runs today and leave the break with a curly-W,” Davey Martinez said before the Nationals’ win in the first-half finale last Sunday, which snapped a nine-game losing streak. “That’s the goal. So like I said, we put some good at-bats together, we hit the ball hard, we’ve got to start doing it though with guys on base, guys in scoring position.”
Early in the fourth game of four with the Atlanta Braves in D.C., Ehire Adrianza hit a two-out, two-run single to give the home team an early 2-0 lead, and Victor Robles followed up with a two-run home run to put the Nationals up 4-0 in what ended up a 7-3 win, with Adrianza driving in a run with a groundout, Maikel Franco hitting an RBI single, and Juan Soto homering to cap it off (and extend a 26-game on-base streak).