Nationals’ rookie Trey Lipscomb homered for the first time in the majors to break up a 3-3 tie in the top of the seventh inning in Washington’s series finale with Cincinnati’s Reds on Sunday afternoon in Great American Ballpark.
Then Lane Thomas hit a sac fly to make it a two-run lead in the top of the eighth, and the visiting team handed the ball to closer Kyle Finnegan in the bottom of the ninth.
Finnegan got two outs on nine pitches, but Reds’ infielder Jonathan India battled in a 10-pitch at-bat and kept hope alive for the home team with a double on a 96.