Edman's Three-Run Blast Rescues LAD After WSH Builds 4-2 Lead

Washington had Los Angeles on the ropes at 4-2 heading into the seventh, then Tommy Edman hit a 389-foot home run to right center that scored two and flipped the game on its head. The win probability swung from 27% to 81% on a single swing, and the Dodgers held on 6-5.

The first six innings looked like Washington's night to steal. Cade Cavalli was sharp — 6.0 innings, 4 hits, 2 earned runs, zero walks, 8 strikeouts — while Tyler Glasnow labored through the same workload, allowing 4 earned runs on 6 hits and 3 walks. The Nationals chipped away methodically: a sacrifice fly in the second, a Keibert Ruiz single that tied it in the fourth, then a Dylan Crews double to left that put Washington ahead 3-2. By the seventh, Daylen Lile doubled to left to score Crews and push the lead to 4-2. At that point, the Dodgers' backs were against the wall.

Then Edman happened. With Freeland and E. Hernández on base, Edman turned on a pitch and drove it 389 feet to right center — a three-run shot that erased the deficit and put Los Angeles up 5-4 in an instant. That's the play that broke this game open, swinging LAD's win probability from 27% to 81% in a single at-bat. The story of the night was that one swing undoing two-plus hours of Washington's careful, grinding work. In the eighth, a hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded scored Betts and pushed the lead to 6-4, with Alex Vesia keeping Washington off the board entirely in his inning of work.

Washington didn't quit — Lile reached on an infield single to shortstop in the ninth to score a run and make it 6-5, and Tanner Scott needed all three of his strikeouts to close the door with three hits allowed in that final frame. Lile finished 2-for-5 with 2 RBI, and Crews went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, so Washington's young core gave the Dodgers everything they could handle. Ruiz added a 2-for-3 line with an RBI. But the Nationals couldn't survive Edman, and that appears to be the blunt summary of this one: a well-pitched, well-contested game that turned on 389 feet of baseball in the seventh inning.