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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nasim Nu\u00f1ez had a pair of run-scoring singles, CJ Abrams<\/a> had two hits and scored twice, and the Washington Nationals<\/a> beat the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> 3-2 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Tena had an RBI triple for Washington, which improved to 4-12 at Nationals Park.<\/p>\n

Nationals right fielder James Wood<\/a> lost Gary S\u00e1nchez\u2019s fly ball off Gus Varland<\/a> in the sun for a one-out single in the ninth. Richard Lovelady<\/a> came on and, after giving up a single to Jake Bauers<\/a>, retired Garrett Mitchell<\/a> on a grounder that scored pinch-runner Blake Perkins<\/a>. Lovelady then struck out Brandon Lockridge<\/a> for his first save.<\/p>\n

Zack Littell<\/a> (1-4) allowed a run over 3 2\/3 innings after PJ Poulin<\/a> opened with two scoreless frames. <\/p>\n

Lockridge had a double and a single for the Brewers, who had won three straight.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s Logan Henderson<\/a>, recalled Sunday from Triple-A Nashville, allowed two runs on three hits over six innings in his second start of the season. Henderson (0-1) was perfect through four innings. He didn\u2019t walk a batter and struck out eight, including the last three hitters he faced.<\/p>\n

Neither team homered in the series.<\/p>\n

Joey Ortiz<\/a> gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly in the fifth.<\/p>\n

In the bottom half, Abrams led off with an infield single for Washington\u2019s first hit. He stole second and scored on a single by Nu\u00f1ez. Tena tripled to right-center and the Nationals led 2-1.<\/p>\n

Abrams led off the seventh with a single and scored when Nu\u00f1ez singled through a drawn-in infield.<\/p>\n

Nationals first baseman Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. left in the sixth with right wrist soreness.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Brewers: RHP Chad Patrick<\/a> (2-1, 2.57 ERA) opposes Cardinals RHP Kyle Leahy<\/a> (3-3, 5.52) at St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Nationals: RHP Cade Cavalli<\/a> (1-1, 3.82) pitches the series opener Tuesday against RHP Taj Bradley<\/a> (3-1, 2.85) of visiting Minnesota.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Harvey Valentine, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nasim Nu\u00f1ez had a pair of run-scoring singles, CJ Abrams had two hits and scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-645997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}