Toronto Blue Jays at Washington Nationals

· Major League Baseball

Toronto Blue Jays

49-58, 23-28 Away

Final
3 - 2

Washington Nationals

54-53, 22-33 Home

Urías homers and Blue Jays beat Nationals 3-2 in Scherzer's return to Washington

Toronto Blue Jays vs. Washington Nationals: Game Highlights

Scherzer came off the injured list to start on his 42nd birthday. In his first appearance since June 10, he gave up a run on four hits over 2 2/3 innings, throwing 75 pitches.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner's night ended after he struck out Daylen Lile to end a 12-pitch at-bat and looked to the Toronto bench.

Scherzer, who spent about 6 1/2 seasons with the Nationals and helped them win the 2019 World Series, left to a standing ovation and waved as he neared the Blue Jays dugout after his 100th career start at Nationals Park.

Mason Fluharty (5-1) got the win as six Toronto relievers combined to allow one run in 6 1/3 innings. Louis Varland pitched the ninth for his 22 save, giving up a two-out single and a walk before striking out Luis García Jr.

The Blue Jays had lost seven of 10 since the All-Star break.

Andrés Chaparro homered for the Nationals, and García had an RBI double.

A solo homer by Urias and back-to-back doubles by Straw and Ernie Clement gave Toronto a 2-1 lead in the third. Straw added an RBI sngle in the fourth.

Chaparro's homer in the fifth pulled Washington to 3-2.

Nationals opener Eddy Yean (0-1) gave up two runs and three hits in 2 1/3 innings.

Up next Toronto RHP Shane Bieber (2-1, 4.70 ERA) opposes RHP Cade Cavalli (7-4, 3.58) in the middle game of the series Tuesday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	García Jr. struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Wood walked, Nuñez to second.
	9th Inning	Nuñez singled to center.
	9th Inning	Vivas struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Ruiz popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Varland relieved Hoffman

Statistics

TOR		WSH
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	10
3	Strikeouts	13
3	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	8
2	Stolen Bases	4
4	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
33	At Bats	34
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	2
17	Fly Balls	11
1	Caught Stealing	0
128	Pitches	152
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
13	Total Bases	13
37	Plate Appearances	38
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	3
4.2	Runs Created	5.1
.212	Batting Average	.235
.000	Pinch Hit Average	1.000
.394	Slugging Percentage	.382
.333	Secondary Average	.382
.297	On Base Percentage	.316
.691	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.698
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
4.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.3
30.0	Batter Rating	27.0
33.0	At Bats Per Home Run	34.0
0.67	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.46	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.00
.182	Isolated Power	.147
1.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.31
.108	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.105
.121	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.147
6.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
79.0	MLB Rating	76.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0