Three hours before Wednesday night's game, with his club last in the majors in batting average, slugging percentage and runs, first-year Arizona Diamondbacks hitting coach Joe Mather sat in the visitor's dugout at Nationals Park and acknowledged: "There's probably a little pressing." A little while later, in the visitor's clubhouse, rookie Seth Beer considered the state of Arizona's offense and offered this analysis: "That's just baseball — that's why we love this game and that's why we hate it. But the more we can continue to get opportunities to be a thereat is when things will start to go our way. We've got to keep that mentality and things will start happening." They sure did — for a day, anyway. Beer's three hits and three RBI, along with Daulton Varsho's two-run homer to cap a lengthy at-bat, propelled the dormant Diamondbacks to more than double their previous highest output of 2022 in an 11-2 victory over the Washington Nationals after a pregame parachuting display caused a scare at the nearby U.S. Capitol. read more https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401354417
