CLEVELAND -- Anthony Rendon knows how to take advantage of a second chance. Rendon hit his first major league home run following Nick Swishers ninth-inning error to propel the Washington Nationals to a 7-6 win over Cleveland on Saturday night. Its easy to see why Rendon was smiling following the good fortune that literally fell his way after his foul popup landed between Swisher and Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis. Asked if he thought he was going to be out on the play, Rendon laughed and said, "Yeah. It was a popup. I thought (Swisher) was going to catch it. I thought it was actually going to be fair. Thats why I kept running." Two pitches after his reprieve, Rendon homered into the Nationals bullpen off Vinnie Pestano (1-2) to stun the Indians and the crowd of 33,307. "I guess its not a bad one to get on the board with," Rendon said. "I dont even know how to explain it." Swisher and Kipnis both drifted into foul territory and it appeared either could have made the catch, but neither player appeared to call for it and the ball fell to the ground. Swisher was charged with the error. Instead of being the third out, Rendon got another opportunity. "That shouldnt happen to us but it did and it cost us the game," Swisher said. "It was a little miscommunication. It was something we handled already." Kipnis took his share of the blame. "He thought I had it, and I thought he had it," Kipnis said. "Looking back on it, I needed to take more charge of it because it was probably the second basemans ball." Drew Storen (1-1) pitched the eighth for the win while Rafael Soriano worked the ninth for his 18th save. Mike Aviles doubled with two outs, but first baseman Adam LaRoche made a leaping catch of Michael Bourns line drive to end the interleague game. The Indians trailed 5-0 in the third but scored six unanswered runs to take the lead until Chad Tracys pinch-hit home run off Joe Smith tied the game in the eighth. Michael Brantleys two-run double in the fifth, along with solo homers by Carlos Santana and Mark Reynolds in the fifth, fueled Clevelands comeback from a 5-0 deficit. The Indians rallied against Jordan Zimmerman, who couldnt hold the lead and was denied his 10th win of the season. Santana and Reynolds hit back-to-back homers in the fourth before Cleveland scored three times in the fifth, taking the lead on Brantleys two-run double. "When those guys give me five runs like that Ive got to be able to lock it down," Zimmerman said. "We got the win. Tracey and Rendon came through and got the big home runs but it was just terrible on my part." "To come back after having a pretty good lead, everybody feels good about themselves," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. Solo home runs by Ryan Zimmerman, Jayson Werth and Ian Desmond, followed by a two-run third, staked Washington to an early lead, but Jordan Zimmerman allowed six runs in five innings. Cleveland starter Scott Kazmir gave up five runs, including three homers, in 2 2-3 innings, but Washington was held in check until Tracy, batting for Chris Marrero, homered into Clevelands bullpen with two outs in the eighth. Tracy has eight career pinch-hit home runs, including two this season. Ryan Zimmerman and Werth hit back-to-back homers to dead centre in the first. Desmond led off the second with a line drive down the left field line that cleared the 19-foot high wall. Kazmir didnt get through the third when Washington added two runs. A double and two walks loaded the bases with nobody out. LaRoche bounced into a double play that scored Rendon. Kazmirs wild pitch on ball four to Desmond scored Zimmerman and ended Kazmirs night. It was his shortest outing of the season. Jordan Zimmerman, who hadnt allowed an earned run in his previous two starts, didnt give up a hit until Mike Aviles doubled with one out in the third. Kipnis two-out single scored Clevelands first run. The right-hander retired the first two hitters in the fourth before Santana homered to right. Reynolds, who entered the game in a 2-for-23 slump, broke a homerless streak of 13 straight games with a blast that landed halfway up the bleachers in left field. Zimmerman continued to labour in the fifth. Aviles singled with one out and scored on Swishers single up the middle. Brantleys double into the gap in right-centre gave Cleveland a 6-5 lead. The Nationals had won four of five going into the series. NOTES: RHP Stephen Strasburg will make his first start since May 31 when he pitches in Sundays series finale. He sustained a strained a back muscle in his last appearance and will be activated from the 15-day disabled list before the game. Johnson said Strasburg wont be on a strict pitch limit. ... Strasburg (3-5) will face RHP Corey Kluber (3-3). ... Indians RHP Chris Perez (shoulder tendinitis) will pitch one inning on a minor league assignment for Class A Lake County on Sunday. Perez spoke to the media Saturday, but took no questions about being charged with misdemeanour drug possession after marijuana was mailed to his home earlier this month. ... Johnson said OF Bryce Harper developed a little puffiness in his sore left knee after doing some lower body exercises. Harper might begin baseball-related activities in a few days. Cheap Nike LunarGlide 5 running shoes . -- Dario Franchitti put plenty of cars between himself and IndyCar points leader Will Power for the start of Sundays race at the Milwaukee Mile -- and he didnt need a lottery to do it. Nike LunarGlide 4 Shoes Sale UK . 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Carlos Marmol gave up the tying run in the ninth before Darwin Barney bailed him out with a homer in the 10th inning for a 4-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.(Sports Network) - The Pittsburgh Penguins will try to bounce back from a rough loss in the opener of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, as they host the Philadelphia Flyers in tonights Game 2 at Consol Energy Center. Catch all the action live on TSN, beginning at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt. Also available on TSN Mobile TV. You can also interact with the TSN Community and get updates with TSN.cas Game Night blog during the game. The fourth-seeded Penguins jumped out to a great start in Wednesdays opener, taking a 3-0 lead into the first intermission, but the visiting Flyers scored four unanswered goals and eventually won the contest, 4-3, on Jakub Voraceks goal just 2:23 into overtime. Voraceks game-winner came after some sloppy defensive play by the Penguins in front of their own net. Philadelphia defenseman Matt Carle attempted a centering feed from the left wing and the puck made it on goal. However, Penguins defenseman Kris Letang accidentally cleared the puck to the right side, where Voracek was alone to sweep it into an open net. For the 22-year-old Czech, it was his first career playoff score and it helped give the Flyers the 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. "Even though its almost impossible to come from that far behind, we knew we could do it," Voracek said. "We stuck to the game plan, came back. We had to wait it out, spend the energy for the whole 60 minutes. We came back against them three times already and it shows how hard we work for every goal." Danny Briere scored twice and Brayden Schenn tied the game late in the third for the Flyers and also added two assists. It was the first time Philadelphia had won a playoff game when trailing 3-0 after one period of play. "It took a lot of work to win this game. We cant dwell on it," Briere said. "You celebrate for a few minutes but we have to get ready for Game 2. We have a chance to take both here and then be up 2-0 coming into our building. We might as well go for it." The game did not come without its share of controversy, as Brieres first goal of the contest came on a play where the Flyers sniper was clearly offsides. Still, despite that lucky break, Briere once again proved himself as a playoff performer, as his two-goal night gives him 98 points in 98 career postseason games. Flyers goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov shook off some early rust and earned the win with 25 saves. Sidney Crosby, Tyler Kennedy and Pascal Dupuis lit the lamp in the opening 20 minutes for the Penguins. Marc-Andre Fleury allowed four goals on 26 shots for the loss. Evgeni Malkin, who led the NHL with 109 points during the regular season, was held off the scoresheet in Game 1. Pittsburgh continued to struggle at home against the Flyers, who entered this series with a 5-1 all-time record at Consol Energy Center. Wednesdays game was Philadelphias first playoff test at Pittsburghs new building, which opened at the start of the 2010-11 campaign. The Flyers hope to extend their success in Pittsburgh tonight and grab a 2-0 edge in the series ahead of Sundays Game 3 in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma would like his club to tie the series tonight and he thinks they can do so by sustaining the excellent start they had in Game 1. "Im not so sure the pace cant be sustained. Its a conscious decision with puck management to be able to play at that speed," Bylsma said. "We werent as good as the game got later. Its not a matter of sitting back." This series marks the sixth all-time playoff meeting between the Flyers and Penguins. Philadelphia won the first three matchups, but Pittsburgh has taken the last two postseason encounters, both of which came in the Crosby-Malkin era. The last series was in the opening round of the 2009 playoffs and Pittsburgh claimed that series in six games en route to a Stanley Cup title. Panthers make postseason return in Game 1 vs. Devils The Florida Panthers will play their first playoff game in 12 years when they host the New Jersey Devils tonight at BankAtlantic Center in the opener of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarterfinals. Catch all the action live on TSN, beginning at 7pm et/4pm pt. Also available on TSN Mobile TV. You can also interact with the TSN Community and get updates with TSN.cas Game Night blog during the game. Florida ended the longest postseason drought in NHL history this season, as the third-seeded Panthers punched a ticket to the playoffs for the first time since 2000 by winning the franchises first-ever Southeast Division title. Although Dineens Panthers were rarely impressive in 2011-12, the clubs 38-26-18 record was good enough to finish ahead of the Washington Capitals in the Southeast. Florida won the division despite having four less wins than the Capitals. Florida also had the worst goal differential out of any team in the playoffs this season, giving up 24 more goals than it scored during the regular season. The Capitals are the only other postseason team on the minus side in that category. Three of Floridas top-four scorers this year came to the club during the offseason, including Tomas Fleischmann, who led Florida in both goals (27) and points (61). Kris Versteeg, another summer acquisition, was the leading scorer for the Panthers for much of the season, but missed some time due to injuries and finished third on the club with 54 points (23 goals, 31 assists) in 71 games. Homegrown forward Stephen Weiss, who was selected by Florida with the fourth overall pick of the 2001 draft, centers the toop line with Fleischmann and Versteeg as his wingers.ddddddddddddWeiss led Florida forwards with 37 assists and was second on the team with 57 points. Tonight will mark the 29-year-olds first- ever playoff game. Three of Floridas top eight point producers this season were defensemen. Brian Campbell, who was acquired in the offseason in a trade with Chicago, led all Florida players with 49 assists and was fourth on the team with 53 points. Meanwhile, Jason Garrison exploded for 16 goals from the blue line in 2011-12 after posting just seven goals in 113 NHL games before this season. Dmitry Kulikov also had four goals and 24 assists to finish eighth on the team in scoring. Panthers head coach Kevin Dineen has still not revealed who will start in tonights Game 1 of this series, but if he goes with the hot hand the task will likely fall to former Devil netminder Scott Clemmensen and not Jose Theodore. Clemmensen is best known for his 2008-09 season with New Jersey. The 34-year- old was forced into a starting role for much of that season thanks to an injury to Martin Brodeur and Clemmensen did not waste the opportunity, going 25-13-1 with a 2.39 goals-against average in 40 games. Although Clemmensen has not approached those numbers since signing a three- year deal with Florida following the 2008-09 campaign, he posted an 8-4-1 record from the beginning of February to the end of the regular season. Theodore, meanwhile, last won on March 17 and went 0-3-4 over his final seven starts of the season. Overall, Theodore was 22-16-11 with a 2.46 GAA this season and is 19-28 with a 2.82 GAA in 51 career playoff games. Clemmensen, who was 14-6-6 with a 2.57 GAA this season, has never started an NHL playoff game and his only appearance in the postseason was a seven-minute relief effort for Brodeur during the 2005-06 playoffs. The sixth-seeded Devils may have a lower seed than the Panthers, but New Jersey has earned its favorite status in this matchup. New Jersey finished fourth in the highly-competitive Atlantic Division with 102 points, just seven less than the New York Rangers, who are division champs and the No. 1 seed in the East. Devils head coach Peter DeBoer, like Floridas Dineen, is making his NHL playoff debut as a head coach tonight. DeBoer was fired by the Panthers after the 2010-11 season, making room for Dineen to take over his post. Overall, DeBoers first season with the Devils was a success, as he got New Jersey back to the playoffs after the club missed the postseason last year for the first time since 1996. "Three-quarters of that team is different personnel than what I had there, so they really are [just] another team for now," DeBoer said of facing his former club. "Ill have a few more friends in the crowd in Florida from my time there, but other than that it has no special meaning." The Devils boast a strong group of forwards that is led by wingers Ilya Kovalchuk and Zach Parise, who form two-thirds of the clubs potent top line. Kovalchuk posted 83 points (37 goals, 46 assists) in 77 games this season, while Parise was second to Kovalchuk on the team with 31 goals and finished third on the team with 69 points. Travis Zajac will likely center the Parise-Kovalchuk line and had two goals and four assists in just 15 games during an injury-plagued season. All told, New Jersey boasted five players with 20 or more goals this season and four of those snipers had more than 25 markers. David Clarkson scored a career-best 30 goals, while veteran Patrik Elias posted 26 markers and also finished with a team-high 52 assists. Clarkson was bothered by a lower-body injury at the end of the season, but is expected to play in Game 1. Meanwhile, New Jerseys defensemen accounted for just 13 goals this season with Mark Fayne leading the way with four tallies. Veteran blueliner Marek Zidlicky, who was acquired at the trade deadline from Minnesota, had two goals and six assists in 22 games for the Devils and is the clubs best offensive option at the back end. Brodeur, the starting goaltender for all three of the Devils championship teams, has struggled in recent postseasons and the Future Hall of Famer hasnt led New Jersey to a playoff series win since it beat Tampa Bay in the opening round in 2007. Brodeur, who will turn 40 years old in May, still has terrific overall numbers in the playoffs, going 99-82 with a 2.01 GAA and 23 shutouts. He was 31-21-4 with a 2.41 GAA in 59 games this season, while steady backup Johan Hedberg was 17-7-2 with a 2.23 GAA. The last time the Panthers were in a playoff series in the spring of 2000 they wound up getting swept by New Jersey in four games in the opening round. The Devils went on to win their second Stanley Cup title later that spring. The Panthers and Devils split four meetings during the 2011-12 regular season with Florida posting the superior 2-1-1 record thanks to a shootout loss. New Jersey wound up outscoring the Panthers by a slim 12-11 margin over the four games. Brodeur struggled a bit against the Panthers, going 1-2 with a 2.62 GAA in three games. Theodore went 1-0-1 with a 2.40 GAA versus New Jersey, while Clemmensen allowed just one goal in Floridas 3-1 victory over the Devils on Feb. 11. That was Clemmensens only outing against his former team this season, but he is 4-0 with a 2.05 GAA in five career games against the club that drafted him back in 1997. Game 2 of this series is scheduled for Sunday in Florida. The Panthers were 21-9-11 as the host this season, while New Jersey was 24-15-2 on the road. cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '