{"id":886440,"date":"2026-09-07T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886440\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:58:09","slug":"betts-homers-late-as-dodgers-rally-past-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886440\/","title":{"rendered":"Betts homers late as Dodgers rally past Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Mookie Betts hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/los-angeles-dodgers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-dodgers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> extended their winning streak to four games with a 7-5 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/washington-nationals\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-nationals\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Nationals<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Max Muncy had three hits and two runs and Tommy Edman had a pair of hits with two runs and an RBI as the Dodgers went 6-0 against the Nationals this season.<\/p>\n<p>In his season debut, Bobby Miller (1-0) gave up one run over three innings to earn the win as Los Angeles moved 1 1\/2 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers for the best record in the major leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers\u2019 winning streak has come without Shohei Ohtani, who has been out for the past four games with left knee and right biceps discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>CJ Abrams reached 30 home runs for the first time in his career and Harry Ford had a two-run double with two runs scored as Washington lost its fourth consecutive game.<\/p>\n<p>In his second inning of work, Nationals left-hander Will Dion (1-2) gave up Betts&#8217; home run after Alex Call singled and Edman walked, both with two outs.<\/p>\n<p>Edgardo Henriquez pitched the ninth inning for the Dodgers to earn his second save.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers had not announced a starter for their home game Monday night against Cincinnati. RHP Chase Burns (15-3, 2.79 ERA) was set to start for the Reds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Mookie Betts hit a three-run home run in the eighth inning and the Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-886440","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\/886440","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=886440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}