ST. LOUIS (AP) —ree runs http://www.stlouiscardinalsteamshop.com/authentic-marcell-ozuna-jersey , Glover earned the save in the first opportunity since Ryan Madson was placed on the disabled list, and the Washington Nationals snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.The Nationals won for just the third time in their last 10 games and snapped the Cardinals’ season-high, eight-game winning streak.“We needed a win today,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “Get on that plane, have a nice happy flight and come back tomorrow and be at home and be ready.”Tanner Roark (8-12) gave up four runs, three earned, in six innings.A beleaguered bullpen that had blown two leads to start the losing streak took care of the rest. Justin Miller pitched two scoreless innings before Glover closed it out.“There’s been a lot of changes (in the bullpen),” Miller said. “It’s unfortunate, a couple of injuries and stuff like that, but I don’t really look at it as I’ve got the seventh or eighth or anything like that. I’m just going out there just trying to do my job.”Glover took the loss in the series opener on Monday Roger Maris Jersey , giving up a game-ending homer to Paul DeJong.“The first game of the series didn’t go as I would have liked for it to have went,” Glover said. “So to get put back in that situation or even a better situation to get a save, I’m happy with that outcome.”Harper drove in the game’s first run with a double in the first and knocked in two more with a bases-loaded single in the fourth to give the Nationals a 4-1 lead.A pair of errors helped the Nationals extend their lead to 5-1 in the fifth. St. Louis committed three errors in the game after committing just four total errors during the winning streak.“A couple plays clearly we expect to make and will make and just didn’t go our way for a little bit there,” Cardinals interim manager Mike Shildt said. “To the guys’ credit they regrouped, settled down, and started playing back to the baseball they know they can play.”The Nationals had opportunities to pad the lead, leaving the bases loaded in the third and fifth while stranding nine runners in the first five innings.“When you have an opportunity to put teams away you’ve got to do that,” Martinez said. “Especially with how hot the Cardinals are playing right now. They’re going to come back.”The Cardinals got within one in the sixth. After DeJong and Kolten Wong came up with back-to-back, two-out RBI hits, Harrison Bader hit a slow grounder to third. Anthony Rendon’s throw to first got away from Ryan Zimmerman for an error Matt Carpenter Jersey , allowing Wong to score from second to cut the Nationals’ lead to 5-4.Just two of the four runs Luke Weaver (6-11) allowed in his 3 2/3 innings were earned. He gave up seven hits, including two to Roark, who scored both times.Tyson Ross allowed one unearned run in 3 1/3 innings of relief.Bader homered in the third and Matt Carpenter walked twice to extend his on-base streak to a career-high 34 games.TRAINING ROOMNationals: RHP Jeremy Hellickson will have an MRI on his sore right wrist on Friday. RHP Joe Ross (right elbow surgery) threw 3 2/3 scoreless innings at Class A Potomac on Thursday and is hoping for a September return.Cardinals: RHP Carlos Martinez (right shoulder strain) will begin a rehab Friday at Double-A Springfield. RHP Adam Wainwright (right elbow inflammation) threw two scoreless innings Thursday night at High-A Palm Beach.UP NEXTNationals: RHP Max Scherzer (15-5, 2.19 ERA) will take the mound as the Nationals return home for a three-game series Friday night against the Miami Marlins and RHP Dan Straily (4-5, 4.42 ERA). Scherzer is 3-0 with a 3.43 ERA in three starts this season against the Marlins.Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (6-6, 3.22 ERA) kicks off a three-game series Friday night as the Cardinals host the Milwaukee Brewers and RHP Freddy Peralta (5-3, 4.47 ERA). Flaherty struck out a career-high 13 batters in his last start against the Brewers on June 22. Baseball debuted a new pitch clock in spring training on Saturday in an effort to speed up games and keep modern fans from turning their attention to faster-paced forms of entertainment. Other sports from basketball to bowling have long used timers to stop teams from running out the clock or prevent games from dragging on.A look at some other ways sports have tried to keep things moving:BASKETBALLThe NBA began using a 24-second shot clock in the 1954-55 season to prevent teams from holding the ball for long periods, often to protect a lead or neutralize an opposing star. Syracuse Nationals owner Danny Biasone came up with the number by dividing the 48-minute game by 120 possessions in what was considered to be a more enjoyably paced game. The NCAA adopted a 45-second clock in 1985-86 and eventually settled on 30 seconds.If the team in possession does not take a shot (that at least manages to hit the rim) before the clock expires, the ball is turned over to the other team.FOOTBALLBoth college and the NFL have play clocks to limit the amount of time a team can run off the clock to protect its lead. The ball must be snapped within 40 seconds after the end of the previous play, or 25 seconds if the game clock isn’t running. If not http://www.stlouiscardinalsteamshop.com/authentic-marcell-ozuna-jersey , a 5-yard penalty is assessed for delay of game.GOLFOn the PGA Tour, the first player in a group has 50 seconds to hit his shot and the next players have 40 seconds each. While the tour has a right to put players on the clock at any time, it typically does not happen unless they have fallen a full hole behind the group ahead of them. A first bad time results in a warning, and the second is a one-stroke penalty.Penalties are extremely rare, with one being assessed in a team event in New Orleans in 2017 and the previous one in 1995 against Glen Day.CHESSTournament chess uses a clock that keeps track of the total time each player spends deciding what to do. After each move, the player will hit a button to stop her clock and begin the opponent’s. In the world championships, each player is allotted 100 minutes for his first 40 moves (with more time added if the match is still going).When the most recent word championship remained tied after 12 consecutive draws, Magnus Carlsen claimed the title by beating Fabiano Caruana in a speeded up version, with each player starting with only 25 minutes for his moves.