WASHINGTON -- One swing from Ryan Zimmerman provided the Nationals with more offense Sunday night than they had through the first two games of this series with the Dodgers, as he launched a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning of a 7-1 victory Sunday night at Nationals Park.
Zimmerman added a solo shot in the eighth, his career-high-tying 33rd homer, as the Nats denied the Dodgers a three-game sweep in a potential National League Championship Series preview between the NL's top two teams, who split the season series, 3-3. For Washington, the club won with the formula it plans to use in the postseason.