Joey Meneses homered for the third consecutive day, Patrick Corbin earned his first residence victory since May 20, and the Washington Nationals defeated the Texas Rangers 7-2 on Sunday.

Stone Garrett and Dominic Smith additionally homered for last-place Washington, which gained the ultimate two video games of the collection after dropping 15 of its earlier 16 at Nationals Park.

Texas enters the All-Star break atop the AL West regardless of dropping eight of its previous 11. The Rangers (52-39) haven't gained a collection since taking two of three June 19-21 from the Chicago White Sox, however nonetheless are tied for his or her fifth-best report by way of 91 video games in franchise historical past.

Meneses has batted third or fourth a lot of the season for Washington after hitting 13 homers in 56 video games final season. But he had solely two in his first 80 video games this season earlier than going deep twice Friday and as soon as extra Saturday.

He added one other Sunday, taking reliever Josh Sborz to right-center within the seventh. It is the second time in his profession Meneses has homered in three consecutive video games.

Corbin (6-10) matched his victory complete from all of final 12 months, when he led the majors with 19 losses. He retired the primary 10 males he confronted and allowed one run and 5 hits whereas putting out six over seven innings.

Smith hit Texas starter Dane Dunning’s first pitch of the fifth inning to right-center to open the scoring. Lane Thomas added an RBI single later within the inning.

Dunning left with two males on within the sixth, and Sborz allowed Luis García’s infield single to load the bases. Alex Call adopted with a two-run single, and CJ Abrams added a run-scoring single to make it 5-1.

Garrett homered two batters after Meneses’ shot within the seventh to finish Sborz’s outing.

Dunning (8-2), one in every of Washington’s first-round picks in 2016, pitched for the primary time at Nationals Park and allowed 4 runs in 5 2/3 innings. The right-hander allowed seven hits whereas putting out 4.

Adolis García drove in each of the Rangers’ runs, on a bloop single within the sixth and a drive out within the eighth.

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Rangers: Texas has not revealed its rotation for when it returns residence Friday to open a three-game collection in opposition to Cleveland.

Nationals: Washington has not introduced its pitching plans for after the All-Star break. The Nationals start a three-game collection Friday at St. Louis.

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