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<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Max Scherzer&#8217;s season-saving, seven-inning pitching performance and Ryan Zimmerman&#8217;s three-run homer lifted the wild-card Washington Nationals to a 6-1 victory over the league-best Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday to force a deciding Game 5 in their NL Division Series.</p><p>Scowling and muttering to himself in his third appearance of this postseason, Scherzer allowed one run and four hits while striking out nine. Most importantly for Washington, he and the Nats prevented LA from closing out the NLDS after taking a 2-1 lead into Game 4.</p><p>Game 5 will be Wednesday in Los Angeles, with Stephen Strasburg set to start for the Nationals against Walker Buehler.</p><p>The 35-year-old Zimmerman showed what he still can do at the plate by taking a 97 mph pitch, the second thrown by reliever Pedro B&#225;ez, and turning it into a high-arching parabola that descended onto the green batter&#8217;s eye in straightaway center field for a three-run shot that made it 5-1.</p><p>That was after Julio Ur&#237;as, the third Los Angeles pitcher and the one charged with the loss, began the fifth by serving up a hard liner by Trea Turner, who finished with three hits. Anthony Rendon delivered a run-scoring single that made it 2-1, one of his three RBIs.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Los Angeles Dodgers' Joc Pederson, back left, strikes out swinging against Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer, right, during the fifth inning in Game 4 of a baseball National League Division Series, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Washington. Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki, back right, and umpire Doug Eddings, back center, look on. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/web1_123723208-3bba333614ed4088acdd37d227096b76.jpg</photo0><caption0>Los Angeles Dodgers' Joc Pederson, back left, strikes out swinging against Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer, right, during the fifth inning in Game 4 of a baseball National League Division Series, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Washington. Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki, back right, and umpire Doug Eddings, back center, look on. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/web1_123723208-6691ecec7e7a423ebfa2c8d17e524e38.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the fourth inning in Game 4 of a baseball National League Division Series, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/web1_123723208-6691ecec7e7a423ebfa2c8d17e524e38.jpg</photo1><caption1>Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the fourth inning in Game 4 of a baseball National League Division Series, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)</caption1><photoCredit1></photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/web1_123723208-96e316a1130646f5ae07e8ed2998870f.jpg">
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Howard Fendrich</p><p>AP Sports Writer</p></bylineMeta></div>

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