Washington’s offense struggled to score runs early again, trailing 1-0 after five and a half in the nation’s capital, but they put two runs up on the board in the bottom of the sixth, with Ryan Zimmerman doubling to left field, moving up on a groundout, and scoring on an RBI single by Starlin Castro for the first, 1-1.
Castro’s third hit of the game tied things up in the second of three with Philadelphia in D.C., and he scored the go-ahead run for the Nationals on a “triple” to right field by Alex Avila, when the Phillies’ center and right fielders, Odubel Herrera and Bryce Harper, ran into one another after letting the fly ball drop between them on the track, 2-1.