With two on and two out and the Washington Nationals trailing 5-2 in the seventh inning of last night’s series opener in Atlanta, Yadiel Hernández stepped in against Braves’ left-hander Tyler Matzek, and hit a 95 MPH first-pitch fastball out to left field for game-tying, three-run, opposite field home run, his eighth of the season, and the seventh opposite field shot for the left-handed hitting slugger.
Hernández went 1 for 3 with a double off Braves’ starter Max Fried, another lefty, before he hit the home run off Matzek, and he finished the night 18 for 56 (.