Overview

• Rookie Brad Lord worked 5 2/3 innings with a season-best seven strikeouts and a career-high four walks, allowing two hits and one earned run.
• Chicago starter Matthew Boyd went seven innings and took the loss, recording two pickoffs to set a Cubs single-season record with 10.
• Washington deployed three relievers before Cole Henry handled the ninth for his second save of the season.
• Chicago managed three hits and went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position despite drawing seven walks.
• The victory gave Washington four wins in its last five games late in the regular season.