国家のs host struggling マカジキs, 捜し出す a 勢い 上げる
The Washington 国家のs hope to ride the 勢い of a walk-off victory into the opener of a three-game series against the Miami マカジキs on Monday.
The 国家のs have every 推論する／理由 to celebrate after Alcides Escobar's 打点 選び出す／独身 in the ninth inning gave them an 8-7 victory in their series finale against the San Diego Padres. Washington had 降伏するd 34 runs in its previous two contests and dropped six in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 全体にわたる.
The 勝利，勝つ on Sunday （機の）カム one day after an emotionally draining experience in which a 狙撃 from outside 国家のs Park put the game of baseball in its proper 視野.
"特に to be able to give the fans that 広大な／多数の／重要な 勝利，勝つ today after having that unfortunate 出来事/事件 yesterday, where most of us felt a little bit of a moment of 恐れる of what happened," Escobar said 経由で 翻訳家 Octavio Martinez in a postgame Zoom 開会／開廷／会期. "Luckily everything worked out and we were able to 勝利，勝つ today's game."
Juan Soto followed up his Home Run Derby 外見 last week with a pair of 爆破s on Friday in his first game 支援する from the All-星／主役にする break. He 追加するd a two-run ホームラン in the eighth inning on Sunday.
"We all 肉親，親類d of joked, we thought the Home Run Derby was going to get him going. Hopefully that's 権利," エース 投手 Max Scherzer said of Soto. "If we get him hot, that just changes everything. When he's hot, he can 絶対 carry us."
Josh Harrison collected three 攻撃する，衝突するs for the second straight game for the 国家のs. He is 12-for-25 with a pair of （テニスなどの）ダブルス, two 打点s and three runs 得点する／非難する／２０d against Miami this season.
Left-hander Jon Lester (2-4, 5.54 ERA) is 推定する／予想するd to take the 塚 on Monday. The 37-year-old will look for a better 業績／成果 than his last one on July 10, when he 許すd eight runs (three earned) on nine 攻撃する，衝突するs in 2 2/3 innings of a 10-4 loss against the San Francisco 巨大（な）s.
Lester also was taken to 仕事 by the マカジキs on June 25, permitting seven runs on five 攻撃する，衝突するs in 2 1/3 innings of an 11-2 後退. He owns a 1-3 記録，記録的な／記録する with a 4.93 ERA in nine career starts against Miami.
The マカジキs enter the series opener having lost six of their past eight games 全体にわたる to 落ちる a season-worst 13 games below .500.
Miami dropped a 4-2 決定／判定勝ち（する） to Philadelphia in the 完成 of a 一時停止するd game on Sunday afternoon before 落ちるing 7-4 in the 定期的に scheduled contest.
追加するing 傷害 to 侮辱 were the 出発s of 新人 second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. and first baseman Garrett Cooper in the latter game. Chisholm 苦しむd a left shoulder contusion on a 飛び込み 試みる／企てる at Bryce Harper's 選び出す／独身 to shallow 権利 field, while Cooper 負傷させるd his 肘 in a 衝突／不一致 with Travis Jankowski.
"Those are two 中心的要素s in the 顔触れ. You don't ever want to see anybody to go 負かす／撃墜する and to have those two ... in that game -- it was 明白に 堅い as a team," チーム仲間 Adam Duvall said.
Per the マカジキs, Chisholm and Cooper will を受ける 付加 実験（する）ing once the team gets to Washington.
Miami 経営者／支配人 Don Mattingly said former 国家のs left-hander Ross Detwiler (1-0, 4.19) likely will get the starting nod in what will be a bullpen game on Monday. It will serve as the 100th start of Detwiler's career.
Detwiler, 35, has an 11.25 ERA without a 決定／判定勝ち（する） in five career 救済 外見s against Washington.
--Field Level マスコミ
