Overview
- Washington won 2-0 on a combined one-hitter as relievers Brad Lord and Richard Lovelady finished what Jake Irvin started.
- Jake Irvin threw five hitless innings and struck out seven before grimacing after the fifth and being removed with an injury whose nature remains unknown.
- Starter Grant Holmes struck out 10 over five innings but took the loss after Dylan Crews and Jorbit Vivas homered for the Nationals' only runs.
- Brad Lord worked the sixth through eighth and Michael Harris supplied the Braves' lone hit with a seventh-inning single, while Lovelady closed a perfect ninth for his fourth save.
- A 41-minute rain delay and a replay review that upheld an overturned call altered late-inning chances, and Atlanta will try to regroup as the series finishes Sunday.