WASHINGTON (AP) Jack Kochanowicz pitched 7 2/3 innings to earn his first major league win, Kevin Pillar hit a three-run double and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Washington Nationals 6-4 on Sunday. Los Angeles avoided a three-game series sweep in its first visit to Washington since 2017 and went 3-3 on a road trip that began in New York against the Yankees. The Nationals i sued 13 walks, matching their most since the franchise moved to Washington in 2005. The Angels turned four of those into runs to help deny the Nationals their fourth series sweep of the season. A lot of good decisions, good choices, said Los Angeles catcher Matt Thai s, who reached base five times, including three walks. Especially in an 11:30 (a.m.) game, a lot of people come out swinging and make some early outs. It showed some grit today by the boys. Kochanowicz (1-2 Elvin Rodriguez Jersey ) made his third career start and it went considerably better than the two last month, when he gave up a combined 12 runs over seven innings. Recalled from Double-A Rocket City on Saturday, the right-hander retired the first eight Nationals hitters before Nasim Nuez reached on an infield single. The Nationals opened the fourth with a double and a walk, prompting Angels manager Ron Washington to visit the mound and offer Kochanowicz a breather while imparting a simple me sage. In this busine s, you dont make adjustments until you have to, Washington said. What youre doing is working. Why would you start doing something else? Keep it going. Theyll tell you when you have to adjust. And he did. I was just really impre sed with his confidence. Kochanowicz breezed through seven innings on 72 pitches before . The rookie was pulled after Luis Garca Jr.s two-out RBI single. He allowed two runs, six hits and a walk while striking out two. Every time out, I feel more comfortable, Kochanowicz said. Its the same stuff: trusting myself and feeling more comfortable as it goes. The Nationals scored twice in the ninth against Ben Joyce, who got Juan Yepez to ground into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded to end the rally. The Angels had runners on first and third with none out in the fourth when Jo Adell hit a sharp grounder to third baseman Jos Tena, who appeared to jam his right hand. After initially holding up, Brandon Drury scampered home on the error, and Tena was forced to leave the game a day after he made his Nationals debut and had the . MacKenzie Gore (7-10) then i sued a walk before inducing a double-play grounder that scored a run. Gore walked two more batters, and to left to make it 5-0. Los Angeles pushed acro s another run in the seventh when Michael Stefanic worked the last of the Angels four walks against Jordan Weems. Gore allowed five runs all unearned in four innings, but walked a career-high six batters and yielded five hits. The left-hander did not work through the fifth for the fourth time in seven starts since July 6. He has to get ahead to stay ahead, Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. He has good stuff. We have to keep harping on it. Mechanically, today I thought he looked fine. The ball was coming out well. It was the constant 3-2, 3-2, 3-2, and foul, foul, foul and then walking guys." Washington also allowed 13 walks as a team on Aug. 10, 2008, in a 13-inning lo s at Milwaukee. TRAINERS ROOM Nationals: SS CJ Abrams (upper back spasms) was out of the lineup for the third consecutive game. Martinez said Tena had a beat up fingernail but will be fine. UP NEXT Angels: RHP Davis Daniel (1-3, 6.04 ERA) starts Monday as Los Angeles returns home to start a three-game series against Toronto. Nationals: Washington is off Monday. The Nationals begin a two-game series at Baltimore on Tuesday as RHP Jake Irvin (8-10, 3.76) faces the Orioles for the first time. Thomas Bruss Jersey