Davey Martinez’s club was down to its last strike in the ninth, trailing Philadelphia’s Phillies, 6-5, when rookie outfielder Victor Robles sent a 2-2 slider from Edubray Ramos out to left-center in Citizens Bank Park for a game-tying home run that made it 6-6.
Robles’s blast capped off an improbable comeback from a 6-1 deficit in the second game of three in CBP.
An inning later, after Sean Doolittle struck Bryce Harper out with a runner on in the bottom of the ninth, and stranded two runners to keep it tied and send it to extras, Juan Soto came up with two on and no one out and hit a 1-0 slider from lefty Jose Alvarez some 432 feet to right field, high over the foul pole, for a three-run blast that made it 9-6 Nationals before an RBI double by Robles added to the lead.