Chaparro’s two homers lift Nationals over Mets on Sunday
WASHINGTON (Interstat) — Andrés Chaparro homered twice and drove in two runs, leading the Washington Nationals past the New York Mets 6-4 on Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park. Washington improved to 77-85, while the Mets fell to 75-92. Chaparro went 3 for 4. CJ Abrams tripled and drove in a run for Washington. Brady House, Jacob Young and Nasim Nuñez also drove in runs. Will Dion earned the win in relief, allowing one hit over two scoreless innings with two strikeouts and one walk. Riley Cornelio and Erik Tolman each pitched scoreless relief; Tolman recorded his fifth save. Sean Manaea took the loss, yielding five earned runs on seven hits over six innings with three strikeouts and one walk. Francisco Lindor and Ronny Mauricio homered for New York. Lindor went 2 for 4 with one RBI, while Mauricio went 2 for 3 with two RBIs. Each team finished with nine hits. The game took 2 hours, 42 minutes and drew 23,753.