WASHINGTON, D.C.: Washington Nationals’ starter Stephen Strasburg took a no-hit bid into the sixth, and still had it going through 5 2⁄3 innings in the NLDS opener with the Chicago Cubs in the nation’s capital.
An error by Anthony Rendon in the first at bat of the sixth gave the Cubs a baserunner, however, and Javier Baez, who’d reached on Rendon’s E:5, moved up a sac bunt by Cubs’ starter Kyle Hendricks, and came around to score on a two-out RBI single to right by Kris Bryant, who took second base on the throw home on the first hit off Strasburg, then scored on an RBI single to right by Anthony Rizzo that put the Cubbies up 2-0 in what ended up a 3-0 win.