From staff reports
The Potomac Nationals won game two of their three-game series with the host Salem Red Sox on Saturday night, 5-1.
The Nationals received a tremendous outing from starting pitcher Will Atwood. He evened his record at 6-6 by tossing seven and two-thirds innings. He gave up a run on seven hits, struck out seven and issued no walks.
Relief pitcher Drew Storen tossed the final inning and a third. He allowed no hits, did not walk a batter and had two strikeouts.
Storen, Washington's 10th overall selection in June's amateur draft who was promoted to the P-Nats a week ago, entered with two outs in the eighth and struck out Zach Borowiak looking.
Storen struck out Daniel Nava to begin the ninth, got Michael Jones to pop out and Anthony Rizzo to ground out to end the game.
Nava, Salem manager Chad Epperson and hitting coach Carlos Febles were each ejected. Nava and Febles were tossed by home plate umpire Will Little in the ninth.
Potomac scored two runs in the first. Michael Martinez came home when Salem pitcher Kyle Weiland threw a wild pitch. Danny Espinosa scored the next run when Jesus Valdez grounded out.
The Nationals extended their lead to 4-0 two innings later. Espinosa laid down a bunt and Martinez scored on a throwing error by Tim Fedorowicz.
Espinosa went to second on the error and to third when Valdez grounded out.
Michael Burgess reached on an error by center fielder Che-Hsuan Lin, allowing Espinosa to score.
Potomac's final run came in the seventh when Martinez scored on Dave McKae's wild pitch.
Salem scored its run in the sixth when Jonathan Hee scored on Kris Negron's double.
Chris Marrero went 2 for 3 for Potomac (19-10 second half, 56-40 overall) and Devin Ivany had a double in one of his four at-bats.
Martinez had two hits, including a double and Espinosa was 1 for 3.
Salem committed three errors, leading to three unearned Potomac runs.
The P-Nats, whose Sunday night game at Salem ended too late for this edition, begin a weeklong homestand tonight against Myrtle Beach. After three games with the Pelicans, Potomac will host the Winston-Salem Dash from Thursday through Sunday.
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