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- Updated: September 27, 2016
WASHINGTON — In the first six games of this 10-game, three-city road trip, the D-backs managed to score just 10 runs.
Monday night, though, their bats came alive as they pounded out 13 hits in a 14-4 win over the Nationals at Nationals Park.
“We’ve been struggling with runs, struggling with hits,” D-backs manager Chip Hale said. “And I felt tonight we came out of it. It was great.”
The D-backs got production up and down the order with every starter collecting at least one hit.
“It’s pretty great to see those guys swing the bats so well,” D-backs second baseman Jean Segura said. “It’s a good feeling.”
Segura hit two of the D-backs’ five home runs — both to right-center. It was his fifth career multi-homer game and fourth this year. Segura also added a single in the sixth, giving him a three-hit night and leaving him just four hits shy of 200 for the season.
“We’re looking …
