WASHINGTON (AP) — James Wood scored the go-ahead run from first base on when center fielder Oneil Cruz misplayed Dayton Lile’s eighth-inning double, and the Washington Nationals overcame a three-run, first-inning deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Sunday.

Pittsburgh (65-85) finished a 1-5 trip that assured the Pirates their seventh straight losing season and 29th in 33 years. The Pirates had runners at the corners in the ninth before rookie Clayton Beeter, pitching on a third straight day for the first time in his major league career, struck out Bryan Reynolds for his first big league save.

Washington (62-87) took two of three from the Pirates and has won nine of its last 13 games.

With the score 3-3 in the eighth, Isaac Mattson (3-3) walked Wood and Lile drove a ball to left

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