Washington Nationals’ Drew Millas hits an RBI single during the second inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.)
Washington Nationals pitcher Mitchell Parker throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.)
San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish throws during the second inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.)
San Diego Padres center fielder Jackson Merrill leaps in vain for a home run hit by Washington Nationals’ Nathaniel Lowe during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
San Diego Padres’ Jose Iglesias celebrates with San Diego Padres’ Manny Machado after scoring a run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.)
Lowe homers as Nationals defeat Padres 4-2 to snap 5-game skid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nathaniel Lowe homered and the Washington Nationals snapped a five-game losing streak Saturday with a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.
Washington Nationals’ Drew Millas hits an RBI single during the second inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nathaniel Lowe homered and the Washington Nationals snapped a five-game losing streak Saturday with a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.
Mitchell Parker earned his first win at home since May 20 for Washington, which had dropped nine of 10.
MartÃn Maldonado and Luis Arraez each drove in a run for San Diego (53-45).
off reliever Yuki Matsui in the sixth inning for his 15th homer — one shy of his total last year with Texas.
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Parker (6-10) allowed two runs in six innings while striking out four. The left-hander had lost seven of his last nine starts, with the only victory in that span coming June 23 at San Diego.
Kyle Finnegan worked the ninth for his 19th save.
Washington went up 2-0 on Drew Millas’ two-run single in the second.
The Padres evened it in the third when Maldonado’s double to deep left-center glanced off Jacob Young’s glove to bring in Jose Iglesias. Two batters later, Maldonado scored on Arraez’s single.
CJ Abrams’ run-scoring grounder in the fifth put the Nationals ahead 3-2.
Yu Darvish (0-2) allowed three runs in five innings, the longest of his three outings since missing the first three months of the season with elbow inflammation.
The threat of rain delayed the start of the game by 65 minutes.
Key moment
With one out in the eighth, Nationals reliever Jose A. Ferrer fielded Gavin Sheets’ comebacker and threw home to trap Fernando Tatis Jr. in a rundown. Tatis was initially ruled safe back at third, but the call was overturned and Ferrer then got Xander Bogaerts to fly out on the first pitch to end the threat.
Key stat
Finnegan ended the Nationals’ streak of 34 games without a save. Finnegan recorded Washington’s previous save June 6 against Texas.
Up next
San Diego RHP Nick Pivetta (9-2, 2.88 ERA), who threw seven shutout innings June 25 against Washington, faces LHP MacKenzie Gore (4-8, 3.02) when the three-game series concludes Sunday.
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