Championship round: 2017 Nationals defeat 2017 Indians in six games

Game 1: Nationals 3, Indians 2
WP: Scherzer (4-1)
LP: Miller (1-2)
Save: Doolittle (5)
HR: Lindor (4)

Game 2: Nationals 4, Indians 3
WP: Strasburg (5-1)
LP: Carrasco (4-1)
Save: Doolittle (6)
HR: Lind (2), Harper (6), Lindor (5)

Game 3: Indians 6, Nationals 4 (13 innings)
WP: Shaw (1-0)
LP: O Perez (0-1)
Save: Allen (6)
HR: Zimmerman (10), Gomes (2), Wieters (3)

Game 4: Indians 3, Nationals 2
WP: Clevenger (3-0)
LP: Roark (2-3)
Save: Allen (7)
HR: Bruce (5)

Game 5: Nationals 7, Indians 5
WP: Scherzer (5-1)
LP: Kluber (5-2)
Save: Doolittle (7)
HR: Encarncion (5), MA Taylor (9), Lind (3)

Game 6: Nationals 5, Indians 3
WP: Strasburg (6-1)
LP: Smith (0-2)
Save: Kintzler (2)
HR: Zimmerman (11), Chisenhall (5)

The 2017 Washington Nationals won -- and earned -- the title in Tournament Two, defeating the 2017 Cleveland Indians in six games in the final round.

Max Scherzer outdueled Corey Kluber in the opener in Cleveland's Progressive Field. Scherzer allowed two runs on four hits in eight innings while striking out 11. Francisco Lindor homered to lead off the game for the Tribe, and Lonnie Chisenhall tripled in Jose Ramirez in the fourth to give Cleveland a 2-0 lead. But the Nats scored a run in the fifth, and in the seventh Bryce Harper and Anthony Rendon each had RBI hits off Andrew Miller to put the visitors ahead,

The Nats won Game Two by one run as well. Harper and designated hitter Adam Lind each homered in the first two innings off Carlos Carrasco, and Matt Wieters doubled in a pair in the seventh to give Washington a 4-1 lead. Stephen Strasburg went six innings, allowing one run on seven hits, for the win.

The Nationals took their two-games-to-none advantage home to D.C., and the Indians got back into the series with a 13-inning win in Game Three. The Nats had a 4-1 lead after four innings, but Chisenhall doubled for two runs in the eighth to even the score, and the two bullpens shut things down for the next four innings, until Yan Gomes hit a two-out, two-run homer off Oliver Perez in the 13th. Bryan Shaw threw three scoreless innings for the win.

Cleveland evened the series in Game Four behind a three-run fifth inning that included a costly two-base error by center fielder Michael A. Taylor. Mike Clevenger went 6.2 innings for the win.

The Nats won pivotal Game Five in the highest scoring tilt of the series. Taylor hit a two-run homer to give Washington a 4-0 lead in the fourth, and Lind hit a two-run pinch-hit shot in the seventh after the Indians pulled within two. Zimmerman's double in the seventh gave Washington a 7-3 lead. Enny Romero gave much of that margin away with a three-run gopher ball to Edwin Encarncion in the eighth, but that was the last baserunner the Indians had in the game.

Washington wrapped it up in Cleveland in Game Six. Zimmerman hit a two-run homer in the second and scored three runs overall to back Strasburg, who allowed two earned runs on four hits in seven innings. Brandon Kintzler retired all six men he faced for the save.

Player of the series: Ryan Zimmerman