Lane Thomas doubled, and Joey Meneses, naturally, drove him in with an RBI single in the home-half of the first in the Nationals’ series finale with the A’s yesterday, but Washington’s Nationals failed to add any runs in bottom of the inning, stranding two, and they stranded a leadoff triple (by Alex Call) in the second, then put two runners in scoring position with one out in the third, and loaded the bases with two outs before leaving them loaded to keep it 1-0 after three.
Paolo Espino made the one-run lead hold up through four, however, allowing just two hits, and striking out 6 of 14 batters faced to that point, but the veteran hurler gave up a game-tying solo home run by A’s catcher Shea Langeliers on a 1-2 curveball up in the zone in the top of the fifth, 1-1.