Aaron Sanchez got a double play grounder out of Brandon Belt after Mike Yastrzemski got on via a shift-beating bunt single to start today’s game, but a walk to Darin Ruf, a single by Joc Pederson, and an RBI single by Brandon Crawford put the visiting San Francisco Giants up 1-0 in the first inning, in the second game of three in D.C., and in Sanchez’s debut with the Nationals, after signing in mid-March and starting at Triple-A Rochester in Washington’s system this season.
Sanchez picked Pederson off second base to end the top of the first, then proceeded to set nine-straight Giants’ batters down to keep it a 1-0 game through three and a half innings.