Brandon Lowe and Everson Pereira homered and the visiting Tampa Bay Rays beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 on Friday night.

Junior Caminero had two hits for the Rays, who had lost their last two.

CJ Abrams and Dylan Crews had three hits each for Washington, which outhit Tampa Bay 12-8 but went 0-for-12 with runners in scoring position.

Brian Van Belle (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings of relief for the win and Pete Fairbanks worked the ninth for his 23rd save despite allowing two hits as Tampa relievers tossed five scoreless innings. Rays starter Adrian Houser gave up a run over four innings.

Washington starter Mitchell Parker (7-15) went 6 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on six hits. He struck out seven without a walk in his best outing since late July.

The Rays got to Parker with

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