By: Joe Lami

After a hellish three days in Chicago that included a suspended game and all sorts of rain delays, a tired San Francisco Giants defeated the Washington Nationals 10-3 on Friday Night. Washington had been on a tare of late winning ten-straight, tying their franchise record.

The night didn’t start off so good for the men in orange and black, as they gave up a run in the first inning due to a Joe Panik error. However, Panik would redeem himself in the fourth inning when he hit a three-run homerun to center giving San Francisco the 3-1 lead, his first career home run. Jason Werth would get one back in the bottom half of the inning for the Nationals, as he hit his first homerun since July 13.

San Francisco added another run in the sixth inning, when Posey went yard for the 15^th time this season to give them the 4-2 lead. The Giants opened the floodgates in the late innings as they added two in the eighth and four in the ninth to solidify the ninth win of the season for Tim Hudson.

Hudson was chased out of the game somewhat early, as he only pitched 5.1 innings while throwing 95 pitches. He recorded three strikeouts, gave up five hits while surrendering two runs, with only one of them being earned.

Doug Fister was given the loss for Washington, only his fourth all year (12-4). Fister threw 107 pitches in six innings pitched. The Giants had seven hits and four runs against him, with two of the hits being homeruns.

The win was an important one as both the Braves and Dodgers earned victories keeping the Giants three games back of the Dodgers and a game up on the Braves.