MILWAUKEE -- Right-hander Tanner Roark delivered a vintage performance in Friday's 1-0 loss to the Brewers, the kind the Nationals were so accustomed to seeing last season. He flummoxed Milwaukee's offense with a nasty two-seam fastball that dived in and out of the strike zone en route to 10 strikeouts in seven innings.
He hung a breaking ball in the first inning that Neil Walker deposited into the seats for a solo homer. That was the lone blemish on an otherwise encouraging outing.
Roark got 21 called strikes on his two-seam fastball, the most on his two-seamer all season.