WASHINGTON -- After scoring a combined one run in their past two games this series, the Padres matched a season high with 14 hits on Sunday to defeat the Nationals, 5-3, for their lone win of the three-game set.
San Diego's offense, which entered the game with the worst batting average in baseball, picked up a bullpen that threw 4 2/3 scoreless innings against the talented Nationals offense, after starter Jhoulys Chacin allowed three runs in 4 1/3 innings. Ryan Schimpf hit his second home run of the series in the first inning, and after Chacin knocked an RBI single the following frame, Chase d'Arnaud drove in two runs in the fifth.