GAME IN A NUTSHELL: Well, if you had to condense it down to one word, it would be: Weird. The opener of this series between NL powers began Friday evening under normal circumstances, with the Dodgers taking a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning on Adrian Gonzalez’s homer off Jordan Zimmermann. And that’s when this became anything but a normal ballgame.
Three separate power outages at Nationals Park forced the suspension of the game in the top of the sixth, with the Nats leading 3-2 at that point thanks to Yunel Escobar’s 2-run homer. It resumed Saturday afternoon, with Tanner Roark taking the mound for what technically was his second inning of relief, and quickly turned into a tie game when Gonzalez homered to left field.