Four Nationals runs crossed before Philadelphia recorded an out, and the first inning set a tone Taijuan Walker could not correct. Walker threw 99 pitches in 4.2 innings and left with six earned runs on his line. José Alvarado's eighth was the kind of inning a bullpen cannot absorb: 0.1 IP, three hits, two walks, four earned. Rafael Marchán's first home run of the year cut it to 7-2 in the fifth, and that was the closest it got. Foster Griffin gave Washington five innings with five strikeouts. Seventeen hits and ten left on base — the innings were long enough that the misses did not matter.