Nationals left-hander Gio Gonzalez got off to a slow start. By the second inning, he had thrown 42 pitches, and Los Angeles took advantage, scoring its only run in that inning when Scott Van Slyke scored on a single by Charlie Culberson to cut the lead in half. Gonzalez went on to pitch six innings and allow the one run on three hits.
It was all Nats after that. Norris was on the mound in the fifth inning when Ben Revere and Jayson Werth hit back-to-back home runs to make it a 4-1 game.