Luis Garcia Jr. hit the 11th pitch of the game for a two-run homer, James Wood had three hits and scored twice, and the visiting Washington Nationals made it two straight wins over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday with a front-running 6-3 victory.

Andrew Alvarez and four relievers overcame nine hits and seven walks to limit the Giants to three runs, helping the Nationals improve to 4-1 on a six-game Western swing.

Garcia’s homer, his eighth, came off Adrian Houser (2-6) following a game-opening single by Wood. The blast gave the Nationals a lead they never relinquished.

Washington tacked on a run in the fifth when Jacob Young tripled and scored on a single by Wood. The Nationals benefitted from the Giants’ generosity to create a three-run margin in the seventh on a run-scoring wild pitch thrown by Erik Miller and a bases-loaded walk drawn by Daylen Lile.

Alvarez labored through four-plus innings in which he allowed five hits and five walks, throwing 90 pitches. He was pulled with a shutout but with two runners on base, and Jung Hoo Lee lashed a two-run double off reliever Brad Lord to get the hosts within 3-2.

The runs were charged to Alvarez, who struck out four.

Lord (4-0) pitched out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam to end the fifth and retain the one-run lead. He then teamed with Richard Lovelady, Clayton Beeter and Orlando Ribalta to shut out the Giants the rest of the way until Bryce Eldridge launched his third home run of the season, a solo shot, with two outs in the ninth.

The Nationals completed their scoring in the top of the ninth when Lile smacked the game’s fourth triple to score CJ Abrams, who had reached base on a two-out error.

Houser worked 4 1/3 innings and gave up three runs and four hits. He struck out six without issuing a walk.

Young finished with two hits and two runs while Lile drove in a pair of runs for the Nationals, who began their trip by taking two of three from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Lee, Eldridge and Luis Arraez each had a pair of hits for the Giants, who dropped their fifth straight home game. Eldridge added a double and two walks to his homer.

The Giants out-hit the visitors 9-8 but stranded 13 baserunners.

–Field Level Media

NEW YORK — San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama won’t receive a retroactive flagrant foul for a play in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, league officials told multiple media outlets Tuesday night.

Wembanyama shoved New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson in the first quarter of the Spurs’ 115-111 win on Monday. The NBA admitted referees missed a foul call on the incident, but the league won’t step in to assess Wembanyama a flagrant-1 foul.

Without a whistle on Wembanyama, play continued with San Antonio on offense.

A replay review appeared to show Brunson, who was on defense and working through a screen on the play, making initial contact with his left hand and grabbing a fistful of Wembanyama’s jersey, prompting the retaliatory push. With his own left hand, Wembanyama aggressively shoved Brunson in the upper back and neck area, sending him toward the floor.

The NBA rulebook deems “unnecessary contact” a flagrant-1 foul, because it goes beyond the actions warranting a common foul.

Had Wembanyama been given a flagrant-1 for the play, he would not have been subject to a suspension. However, the Spurs big man would have been skating into Game 4 on thin ice.

Wembanyama has already received two penalty points for a flagrant-2 foul in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals against Naz Reid of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

All players can accumulate a total of three penalty points in the playoffs — one point for a flagrant-1, two for a flagrant-2. Four penalty points in the postseason prompt an automatic one-game suspension.

A flagrant-2, defined in the rulebook as “unnecessary and excessive or reckless contact … committed by a player against an opponent,” triggers an automatic ejection.

In the third quarter on Monday, Brunson was called for a flagrant-1 foul while closing out on a 3-pointer by Julian Champagnie. Officials said he did not provide ample landing space for the Spurs’ deep threat.

–Field Level Media

Sal Stewart clouted a two-run homer in the 11th inning Tuesday night and the visiting Cincinnati Reds snapped a five-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the San Diego Padres.

Yuki Matsui (0-1) retired leadoff man JJ Bleday on a fly ball to right that advanced automatic runner Blake Dunn to third. Stewart then drilled a hanging splitter over the center field wall for his 13th homer of the year.

Tejay Antone (1-0) picked up the win despite allowing a run in the bottom of the 10th. Zach Maxwell earned his first major league save with a 1-2-3 11th.

Cincinnati took a 3-2 lead in its half of the 10th when Eugenio Suarez ripped an RBI double just inside third base. San Diego equalized on a one-out RBI single by Samad Taylor.

The Padres outhit the Reds 12-8 but went 3-for-20 with runners in scoring position and left 13 runners on base. San Diego took its 12th loss in 15 games.

Both starters got a no-decision. Cincinnati’s Chase Burns worked 5 1/3 innings, yielding six hits and two runs with two walks and seven strikeouts. San Diego’s Lucas Giolito pitched four innings, permitting two hits and two runs, one earned. He walked five and fanned three.

The Reds initiated the scoring in the second inning with a two-out rally. Matt McLain walked and stole second, the first of his three thefts on the night and Cincinnati’s seven. McLain scored when Tyler Stephenson lined a hanging changeup into left-center for an RBI single.

Giolito was his own worst enemy in the third. Bleday singled with one out, and Stewart and Nathaniel Lowe drew walks to fill the bases. Giolito then misplayed Spencer Steer’s comebacker for an error that allowed Bleday to cross the plate.

The Padres tied it in the bottom of the third. Fernando Tatis Jr. singled with one out and scored when Jackson Merrill ripped a triple to the right field corner. Manny Machado chased Merrill home with a single to left.

–Field Level Media