They ended up losing the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader with the New York Mets, by a final score of 11-9 in extras, but the Washington Nationals battled back from 9-0 to tie it up in the bottom of the seventh when Andrew Stevenson capped off the comeback with a two-out, two-run, game-tying home run.
Stevenson’s fourth of 2021 was a 345-foot shot to right field on a 1-1 changeup from Mets’ right-hander Seth Lugo.
“Yeah, you know early on tried to flip me in an offspeed [pitch] and I ended up taking it for strike one,” Stevenson said when he spoke via Zoom after the loss, “.