Howie Kendrick’s 10th inning grand slam understandably got most of the attention after the Washington Nationals’ 7-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, last night, but it was the back-to-back home runs by Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto in the eighth inning that started their comeback and set the Nats’ 36-year-old outfielder up for his extra-innings blast.
Rendon went down for a 1-0 fastball and sent it out to left, and Soto stepped in next and hit a first-pitch slider up and in out to right-center, both off Clayton Kershaw, tying things up at 3-3 two innings after the Nationals’ 3-4 hitters got them on the board with a double and RBI single, respectively, off of starter Walker Buehler after the Dodgers scored three runs on two homers off starter Stephen Strasburg in the first two innings of Game 5 of the NLDS.