Washington Nationals at Boston Red Sox

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Washington Nationals

43-43, 26-18 Away

Final
3 - 6

Boston Red Sox

37-46, 17-25 Home

Contreras and Durbin homer as Red Sox extend win streak to 5 games with 6-3 win over Nationals

Willson Contreras ejected after tapping his helmet

Contreras opened the scoring for Boston with his 18th homer of the year to jump out to a 3-1 lead before Durbin followed with a solo shot to left two batters later. Contreras had his night cut early, however, after being ejected in the third inning for mocking the ABS challenge helmet tap on a checked swing strikeout.

Wilyer Abreu plated Tsung-Che Cheng with a sacrifice fly in the second, and Carlos Narváez added a sac-fly of his own in the third to complete the scoring.

Ranger Suarez (4-3) pitched six innings and struck out eight while giving up three runs on five hits. The team has had 12 consecutive quality starts, two shy of the franchise record of 14 set in 1988. Boston starters are 6-1 with a 1.75 ERA over the last 12 games.

James Wood hit his 21st homer of the year, a 441-foot solo shot to right in the first inning, and CJ Abrams tacked on a bases-loaded, two-run double in the sixth to break an 0-for-15 slump.

Miles Mikolas (2-7) surrendered six runs on nine hits in seven innings while striking out three for the Nationals.

The Red Sox have won 8 of their last 11.

Up next Washington RHP Cade Cavalli (4-4, 4.00 ERA) squares off against Boston LHP Connelly Early (7-5, 3.59) in game two of the series on Tuesday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Vivas struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Vivas hit for Nuñez
	9th Inning	García Jr. singled to right.
	9th Inning	Lile fouled out to third.
	9th Inning	Lile hit for Young
	9th Inning	Crews struck out swinging.

Statistics

WSH		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	10
12	Strikeouts	4
3	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	2
33	At Bats	30
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	5
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
8	Fly Balls	18
0	Caught Stealing	0
140	Pitches	116
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	16
35	Plate Appearances	33
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
2.4	Runs Created	5.4
.212	Batting Average	.300
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.333	Slugging Percentage	.533
.182	Secondary Average	.300
.257	On Base Percentage	.303
.590	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.836
1.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
2.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.3
24.0	Batter Rating	42.0
33.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.00	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.52
.121	Isolated Power	.233
0.17	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.25
.057	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.030
-.030	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
6.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
74.0	MLB Rating	90.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0