WASHINGTON — Stone Garrett homered in his first major league plate appearance in more than a year in a three-hit, three-RBI effort and the Washington Nationals ended a four-game losing streak with a 9-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night. Washington’s Trevor Williams struck out five in five shutout innings and allowed three hits and two walks as …
PHILADELPHIA — Tommy Lasorda lost his cool. “He came out,” said the Phanatic’s best friend, Dave Raymond, “and beat up a Muppet.” Billed as the Phanatic’s closest confident, Raymond actually played the Phanatic from 1978 until 1993. Raymond confessed that former Dodgers infielder Steve Sax participated in an inside job of often swiping an extra Lasorda uniform and discreetly passing …