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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 5, Milwaukee 1
When: 4:10 PM ET, Sunday, April 17, 2011
Where: Nationals Park, Washington, District of Columbia
Temperature: 64°
Umpires: Home - Mark Wegner, 1B - Chris Guccione, 2B - Mike Winters, 3B - Mike Estabrook
Attendance: 23047

Danny Espinosa's bases-loaded triple in the seventh inning lifted Washington to a 5-1 victory over visiting Milwaukee and a doubleheader sweep Sunday.

Starters Livan Hernandez and Marco Estrada were locked in a 1-1 pitchers' duel into the seventh, when Washington broke through against Kameron Loe (1-1). Laynce Nix, Ian Desmond and Jerry Hairston, Jr. led off with singles to load the bases. One out later, Espinosa drilled his bases-clearing hit to deep left. He had a three-run homer in Washington's 8-4 win earlier in the day

Hernandez (2-1) didn't need any more help. The veteran scattered six hits over seven innings, striking out three without a walk. Estrada gave up just one run on five hits in his six innings for Milwaukee (7-8), striking out seven.

Drew Storen pitched the final two frames in relief of Hernandez and Adam LaRoche capped the scoring with an eighth-inning home run

Hairston got the Nationals ahead in the second inning with a solo home run against Estrada. The Brewers tied it in the fourth when Prince Fielder scored on a base hit by Yuniesky Betancourt.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Milwaukee   Washington
Marco Estrada Player Livan Hernandez
No Decision W/L Win
6.0 IP 7.0
7 Strikeouts 3
5 Hits 6
1.50 ERA 1.29
Hitting
Milwaukee   Washington
Ryan Braun Player Jerry Hairston Jr.
2 Hits 3
0 RBI 1
0 HR 1
4 TB 7
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Milwaukee 7 0 10 .206 8 4 1 0 0 0
Washington 11 2 21 .344 14 7 5 3 1 0