Hopes for the season’s first sweep were dashed this afternoon as the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 at Nationals Park in Washington DC.
Left-handed pitcher McKenzie Gore, who came to the Nationals from San Diego in August of 2022 as part of the Juan Soto trade, struck out six and kept the Phillies to two runs.
Christopher Sanchez, on the mound for the Phillies, ran up his pitch count early, often got behind in the count early, and several times wound up with full counts that failed to end in strikeouts.
Absent from the lineup today was Johan Rojas.