D-backs hang on to edge Nats
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The Arizona Diamondbacks erupted for four runs in the sixth inning and held on for their seventh win in eight games, a 5-4 victory over the Washington Nationals in Phoenix on Wednesday afternoon.
The Nationals, who lost their fourth game in a row, scored one run in the eighth on Luis Garcia Jr.'s RBI single off Kevin Ginkel, but with the tying run later at the plate, the ri