Big 10th inning pushes Nationals past Cardinals

Jacob Young tripled home three runs in the 10th inning and the visiting Washington Nationals went on to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-8 Friday night.

Luis Garcia Jr. drove in three runs and Juan Yepez was 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs for the Nationals, who rallied from 5-2 and 6-3 deficits to snap their three-game losing streak.

Washington starter MacKenzie Gore allowed six runs on nine hits in five innings. He walked two and struck out three.

Jacob Barnes (6-2), the fourth of five Nationals relievers, earned the victory with a 1-2-3 ninth inning.

Paul Goldschmidt reached the 2,000-hit milestone with two hits, including a two-run homer, for the Cardinals. Nolan Arenado hit a three-run homer, and Masyn Winn hit a two-run shot and an RBI single.

Cardinals starting pitcher Sonny Gray surrendered five runs on seven hits in five innings. He struck out seven and walked three.

Reliever Ryan Fernandez (1-3) took the loss, giving up the four runs, three earned, in the 10th.

Washington took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on singles by Yepez and Kelbert Ruiz and Garcia's double.

The Cardinals seized a 5-2 lead in the third.

Michael Siani walked and Winn hit his sixth homer. After Willson Contreras and Alec Burleson singled, Arenado launched his 11th homer.

The Nationals cut their deficit to 5-3 in the fourth inning on a single by Yepez, a walk to James Wood and Garcia's RBI single. St. Louis got the run back in the bottom of the inning on singles by Pedro Pages, Siani and Winn.

Washington cut its deficit to 6-5 in the fifth inning on walks to CJ Abrams and Jesse Winker, an RBI double by Yepez and Wood's run-scoring groundout.

The Nationals tied the game 6-6 in the seventh inning. Abrams and Lane Thomas drew walks off Andrew Kittredge and executed a double steal to set up Yepez's sacrifice fly.

Young's triple and Abrams' single in the 10th put Washington up 10-6, then Goldschmidt homer in the bottom of the inning.

--Field Level Media