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The Nationals put together a complete performance tonight en route to their first division win at home thus far in the 2026 season. Foster Griffin gave them six solid innings on the way to his third win of the campaign, and the offense was stout, getting contributions from top to bottom throughout the night. It also helped that the Nationals were able to get to the Atlanta bullpen, allowing their starter, Reynaldo Lopez, to record only three outs before being lifted from the game. All in all, this was a great bounce-back victory for the boys after dropping game one of the series on Monday night.

Tonight felt like a story we’ve seen many times in recent trips to DC by the Atlanta Braves. Nationals Park has served as a fountain of wealth for Braves’ hitters for years, and tonight was no different, as the Atlanta offense amassed nine runs in their 9-4 win in game one of this four-game series. The great news? There’s always tomorrow.

The Nationals pulled off a 3-0 win this afternoon in the final tilt of this weekend’s three-game series against San Francisco, and they did it behind a shutout performance from a three-man pitching combo that I promise you nobody could’ve predicted. PJ Poulin, Miles Mikolas, and Andrew Alvarez, freshly up from Triple-A Rochester, combined for an eight-hit shutout to salvage a win for the Nationals in this series. The offense came all in the bottom half of the fifth against Robbie Ray, and that three-run frame would be the only scoring we saw at Nationals Park today.