SF Giants take series in D.C. as Ray continues excellent stretch

WASHINGTON D C Robbie Ray continued his modern stretch of excellence by allowing one run over six innings with seven strikeouts as the Giants beat the Washington Nationals - on Sunday at Nationals Park to take the series For Ray this is his sixth consecutive outing of at least six innings the third time he s done so in his career During this stretch Ray has allowed seven earned runs over innings ERA with strikeouts to four walks Ray as he is wont to do heavily relied on his four-seam fastball The left-hander s heater accounted for of his pitches inducing seven whiffs with the heater and landing four-seamers for strikes The only run that Ray allowed was self-inflicted as the Nationals Nasim Nu ez scored from third on a wild pitch Following Ray s departure manager Bob Melvin followed a familiar formula Randy Rodr guez for the seventh Tyler Rogers for the eighth and Ryan Walker for the ninth Rodr guez and Rogers pitched scoreless innings but Walker allowed a run on back-to-back doubles by CJ Abrams and James Wood cutting the Giants lead to - That one run would be all the Nationals got Willy Adames got the Giants on the scoreboard in the top of the second inning by grounding out on a check swing giving San Francisco an early - lead The Giants tacked on two more runs in the third inning on Sam Huff s solo homer his second of the year and Heliot Ramos RBI groundout that drove in Mike Yastrzemski who tripled Worth noting Right-hander Justin Verlander who is at present on the -day injured list with a right pec strain threw on Saturday and is expected to throw a bullpen in Detroit on Tuesday Infielder outfielder Jerar Encarnacion left hand fracture will likely rejoin the Giants when the group returns from their three-city road trip opposed to meeting the association in Miami He s spending the weekend in Arizona then will play a week of rehab games with Triple-A Sacramento Encarnacion is eligible to return as of May