POSTGAME NOTES (67-65) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (86-47) Wednesday, September 2, 2015

R H E Starting Pitcher (Pitch Count) Pitcher of Recordng Washington 4 8 0 (108 pitches/82 strikes) WIN: Rafael Martin (1-0) St. Louis 3 16 0 Tyler Lyons (87 pitches/60 strikes) LOSS: Jonathan Broxton (1-4) SAVE: Jonathan Papelbon (23)

First Pitch: 7:15 p.m. Gametime Temperature: 88° – Partly Cloudy Time of Game: 3:34 Attendance: 41,489

Cardinals Notes  Tyler Lyons made his seventh start (10th app.) of the season, first against the Nationals in 2015 and in his career…last MLB start was in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Chicago (7/7) in a loss…won his last start at Busch Stadium on June 13 vs. Kansas City…allowed a career-high three home runs tonight after entering the game allowing five home runs all season…becomes the 22nd instance a Cardinals pitcher has thrown 6.0 innings allowing three runs on three solo home runs for a quality start (last: Todd Wellemeyer, 9/17/2008 at CIN).  Jhonny Peralta posted his 8th three- game of the season (last: 8/21 at SD), tying his 2015 season high for hits in a game.  Brandon Moss hit the longest by a left-handed batter at Busch Stadium III at 454 feet, surpassing Lance Berkman’s 452-foot home run…the 454 feet also tied the 5th longest home run by a Cardinals batter in Busch Stadium III history…his 4th HR in his last 7 games…extended his season-high to seven games (11-24, .458)…posted his 3rd straight multi-hit game, the 5th time in his career (last: 4/7-10/2013)..5th three-hit game of the season (6/2 at KC w/CLE), first with the Cardinals…was 0- for-6 in the 9th inning as a member of the Cardinals (6-32, .188, 3 HR w/CLE) before his 9th inning single…has an extra base hit in 5-of-last-7 games…becomes the 6th Cardinals player to hit a walk-off home run followed by a home run in his first at bat the following game (most recent: 4/16-17/2006 vs. PIT…Jim Edmonds 2003; Mark McGwire 1998, Daryl Spencer 1960, 1959) courtesy SABR.  Stephen Piscotty extended his hitting streak to his season-long 10 games (18-43, .419) with a single in the 1st inning...posted his 13th multi-hit game in 39 total games.  Tony Cruz has hit safely in each of his last four starts (4-16, .250, HR, 2 RBI).  Kolten Wong posted his 9th three-hit game of the season…connected on his team-leading 25th two-out RBI of the season in the 7th inning.  The Cardinals matched their season-high with 16 hits (last: 6/20 at PHI)…lost for the first time when recording 16 hits in a game since 4/3/2013 at ARI (16 innings)…the last time the Cardinals tallied 16 hits in a nine-inning game and lost was 4/12/2011 at ARI…the last time the Cardinals scored 3 or less runs and tallied 16 hits was at Boston (6/22/2008) in a 13 inning 5-3 loss, and the first time in club history dating back to 1914 to get 3 or less runs and 16 or more hits in a 9-inning game.

Nationals Notes  Max Scherzer, a St. Louis area native and University of Missouri program alum, made his 27th start of the season, second against the Cardinals in 2015 (0-1) and third career start vs. the Cardinals (0-2)…first start in St. Louis since 2008…has allowed 8 home runs in his last 4 starts (28 innings)…allowed a season-high 11 hits, most since allowing 11 vs. Boston (6/7/14)…posted his 8th -digit strikeout game of the season (33rd career)…only the second time in his career he has allowed double-digit hits and strikeouts in the same game (5/6/15 vs. MIA).  extended his hitting streak to a season-high 11 games (16-43, .372), tying his career-best between 2013-14 seasons.  Jayson Werth scored his 750th career run on a solo home run hit in the 3rd inning…has hit safely in each of his last 4 games…has 3 home runs in his last 7 games after hitting 3 home runs in his first 54 games. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE…

 Ryan Zimmerman hit his 200th career home run on his 2nd home run of the game…tallied his 2nd multi-home run game of the season (14th career)…has homered in three straight games for the fifth time in his career (last: 9/11-13/2013), one shy of his longest streak of four (8/3-7/2009)…has homered in 6-of-last-9 games (7 HR)…has an RBI in 9-of-last-10 games (19 RBI)…has hit safely in his last seven games (12-29, .414)…has hit safely in all six games against the Cardinals this season (12-27, .444)…posted three two-strike extra base hits tonight, all for go-ahead RBI (had 11 go-ahead RBI on the season entering tonight)…tied his season-high with his 3rd three-hit game of the season and 5th game with three or more RBI…is 7-for-14 (.500) with 4 HR and 8 RBI this series.  left the game in the 4th inning with left glute tightness.  Wilson Ramos extended his hitting streak to 10 games (14-37, .378).  threw his 3rd perfect inning with three strikeouts of the season (5/13 at ARZ & 7/22 vs. NYM).  Rafael Martin earned his first Major League win tonight.  Jonathan Papelbon recorded his 23rd save in 23 opportunities…moved past Brad Ziegler (ARZ, 22) for active consecutive save streak lead in MLB.  The Nationals have blown a save opportunity in all three games of this series, the second time they have blown a save opportunity in three straight games this season (4/11-13)…snapped a streak of nine consecutive regular season losses at Busch Stadium (previous win: 9/29/2012)…won for the second time this season when allowing 16 or more hits (17, 4/28 at ATL, 13-12 win).

Home Runs STL – Brandon Moss #19 (2nd inn., 0 on, 0 out, 3-2 count, off Max Scherzer) – 454 feet (110th career HR) WAS – Jayson Werth #6 (3rd inn., 0 on, 2 out, 2-2 count, off Tyler Lyons) – 422 feet (192nd career HR) WAS – Ryan Zimmerman #15 (4th inn., 0 on, 1 out, 2-2 count, off Tyler Lyons) – 441 feet (199th career HR) WAS – Ryan Zimmerman #16 (6th inn., 0 on, 0 out, 2-2 count, off Tyler Lyons) – 404 feet (200th career HR) *Multi-HR Game*