LOS ANGELES (Interstat) — Mookie Betts homered and drove in four runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 7-5 on Sunday at Dodger Stadium. Betts hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth inning, his 18th, after Washington had taken a 5-4 lead in the sixth. Max Muncy went 3 for 4, Tommy Edman had two hits and an RBI, and the Dodgers won their third straight. Bobby Miller threw three innings of relief, allowing one run, and improved to 1-0. Edgardo Henriquez pitched the ninth for his second save. Will Dion took the loss.

Washington collected nine hits and scored four times in the fourth inning. CJ Abrams homered, Harry Ford had a two-run double and Jacob Young added an RBI single. Ford later scored on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch by Dylan Crews in the sixth. The Dodgers used an RBI double from Edman and run-scoring singles from Will Smith and Teoscar Hernandez to tie it 4-4 in the fifth. Betts went 1 for 5. The game lasted 2:55. Attendance was 54,211. The Dodgers improved to 86-57; the Nationals dropped to 67-78.