Cincinnati Reds' right-hander Dan Straily held the Washington Nationals to one hit and one run through seven, but the Nats rallied to tie it at 4-4 in the eighth before losing 9-4 in extras to snap their six-game win streak.
Washington's walk-off win last night gave them six straight victories, one shy of their previous season-high of seven wins in a row set between April 10-16.
The current win streak followed a seven-game losing streak, of course, which, as Nationals' skipper Dusty Baker noted after last night's 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds, is just how things go sometimes in baseball.