Where: Nationals Park, Washington, District of Columbia
Temperature: 61°
Umpires: Home - Tim McClelland, 1B - Mike Everitt, 2B - Andy Fletcher, 3B - Adrian Johnson
Attendance: 18673
Livan Hernandez threw a four-hit shutout to guide the Washington Nationals to their third straight victory, an 8-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.
Hernandez (2-0) struck out three batters and issued two walks on 112 pitches, only getting in trouble one time. The veteran right-hander now hasn't given up a run in 14 innings this year.
Justin Maxwell hit a two-run homer in the second off Brewers starter Randy Wolf as the Nationals took an early 3-0 lead that was enough for Hernandez. Maxwell finished with three RBIs and Ivan Rodriguez had a two-run double and also recorded three RBIs.
Third baseman Ryan Zimmerman returned to the lineup after missing a week with a bad left hamstring and had two RBIs to help Washington (6-5) improve to over .500 for the first time since 2008.
Wolf (1-1) went five innings, allowing four runs on four hits with four strikeouts.
| Milwaukee | Washington | |
| Randy Wolf | Player | Livan Hernandez |
| Loss | W/L | Win |
| 5.0 | IP | 9.0 |
| 4 | Strikeouts | 3 |
| 4 | Hits | 4 |
| 7.20 | ERA | 0.00 |
| Milwaukee | Washington | |
| Randy Wolf | Player | Ian Desmond |
| 1 | Hits | 2 |
| 0 | RBI | 0 |
| 0 | HR | 0 |
| 1 | TB | 2 |
| .500 | Avg | .667 |
| Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
| Milwaukee | 4 | 0 | 6 | .129 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Washington | 10 | 1 | 17 | .323 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 |