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LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts tied his career high with five hits, doubling twice and driving in two runs to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the Washington Nationals. Betts singled leading off the first against Patrick Corbin and scored as Teoscar Hernández grounded into a double play. Betts hit an RBI double that increased the lead to 3-0 in the second. He singled in the fourth, doubled and scored in the seventh, and hit a run-scoring single that drove in the Dodgers' final run in the eighth. Andy Pages, a 23-year-old Cuban outfielder, went 1 for 4 in his major league debut for the Dodgers.
