Major League Baseball
Arizona 7, Washington 2
When: 8:10 PM ET, Saturday, July 23, 2022
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Andy Fletcher, 1B - Bill Welke, 2B - Junior Valentine, 3B - Chris Segal
Attendance: 37802

Madison Bumgarner allowed two runs on four hits over a season-high eight innings, and Carson Kelly homered to lead the host Arizona Diamondbacks to a 7-2 victory over the Washington Nationals on Saturday night in Phoenix.

It was the third win in four starts in July for Bumgarner (6-9), who struck out a season-high nine batters. He didn't walk anyone but did hit two batters.

Alek Thomas went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs, Jake McCarthy had two hits, including a double, and Geraldo Perdomo added two RBIs for the Diamondbacks, who improved to 2-0 after the All-Star break.

Victor Robles had two hits, including a home run, and scored twice for Washington. Anibal Sanchez (0-2), making just his second start since Sept. 26, 2020, suffered the loss, allowing three runs on six hits and two walks over five innings. He struck out four.

Arizona took a 1-0 lead in the first on a sacrifice fly by David Peralta, driving in Alek Thomas, who had singled.

Kelly made it 2-0 in the second when he led off with his fifth homer of the season, a 407-foot drive into the bullpen down the left-field line to extend his hitting streak to 12 games.

Washington cut it to 2-1 in the third when Robles led off with a bunt single, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a groundout by Lane Thomas.

The Diamondbacks extended their lead to 3-1 in fourth when Kelly walked, advanced to third on a double by McCarthy and scored on a groundout by Perdomo.

Arizona then broke the game open with a four-run sixth, with all the runs scoring with two outs. McCarthy and Perdomo each had an RBI single, while Alek Thomas lined a two-run double that one-hopped the fence in left.

Robles made it 7-2 in the eighth when he lined his third homer of the season into the left-field bleachers.

Juan Soto went 0-for-4 to have his season-best 27-game on-base streak snapped. Soto, who had a streak of 44 consecutive at-bats without a strikeout, whiffed his final three at-bats.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Washington   Arizona
Anibal Sanchez Player Madison Bumgarner
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 8.0
4 Strikeouts 9
6 Hits 4
5.40 ERA 2.25
Hitting
Washington   Arizona
Victor Robles Player Alek Thomas
2 Hits 3
1 RBI 2
1 HR 0
5 TB 4
.667 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Washington 4 1 7 .133 6 11 2 0 1 0
Arizona 10 1 15 .312 10 7 7 3 2 0