WASHINGTON -- The Washington Capitals found a way to tie a back-and-forth game with 3:27 left against Ottawa on Wednesday night. It lasted just 64 seconds before Zack Smith and the Senators retk the lead. Bobby Ryan scored two goals and the Senators topped the Capitals 6-4. "The big test for us was when they tied the game. We didnt handle momentum swings very well in the first period or in some previous games," said Ottawa coach Paul MacLean, whose team has dropped four of five coming in. Smith scored the go-ahead goal with 2:23 remaining when he tk a pass from Chris Neil at centre ice, skated in against defenceman Nate Schmidt and beat goaltender Braden Holtby from the left circle. Smiths goal came after Washingtons John Carlson tied the game with Smith in the penalty box. Chris Phillips had a goal and an assist, and Mika Zibanejad and Colin Greening added goals for Ottawa. Erik Karlsson had two assists for the Senators, who trailed 3-1 after one period. "Obviously a huge two points for us tonight," Phillips said. "We need to build off this momentum and keep it going. We lk at the standings and were not in a great spot right now. We need to get on a bit of a roll." It was Ottawas first win in regulation at the Verizon Center since March 12, 2006. Eric Fehr, Marcus Johansson and Brks Laich also scored for Washington, which led 3-1 before dropping its fourth straight. "We played a solid game (losing Saturday) in Toronto; we played lousy tonight," Capitals coach Adam Oates said. "Not gd decisions. We get a lead and we still dont do the right things." Zibanejad had given Ottawa a 4-3 lead at 6:05 of the third when he deflected a Jason Spezza shot past Holtby for Ottawas third power-play goal of the game. Craig Anderson stopped 29 shots for Ottawa. Holtby made 35 saves for Washington. Trailing 3-1 after one period, Ottawa tied it in the second as it outshot the Capitals 19-3. "A lot of angry guys in here," Anderson said of the Ottawa locker rm after the first 20 minutes. "We werent happy with our effort that first period. Obviously not happy with being down by two goals. But we held ourselves accountable. Each and every guy knew it wasnt gd enough." With a man advantage, Phillips skated down the left side and blasted a shot from the circle over Holtbys glove to make it 3-2 at 66 of the second period. Exactly four minutes later, Greening tied it when he beat Holtby with a shot through traffic from the right circle. "We had them," Carlson said. "We were close to putting our stamp on it. But we let them back." After totalling three goals in its three previous games, Washington scored three in less than three minutes during the first period. They broke a 1-1 tie with two goals 47 seconds apart. During a power play, Alex Ovechkins shot was deflected in front and Johansson banged the puck home at the 14:06 mark. Washington made it 3-1 when Jason Chimeras pass deflected off Joel Wards skate behind the end line out in front to Laich, who beat Anderson with a backhand for his fourth goal. "We saw a very gd hockey team in the first period with 18 shots and three goals and did a lot of things right," Laich said, "and for the rest of the game we saw a very bad hockey team. Bad decisions, bad penalties, getting outworked." The Capitals tk a 1-0 lead at 12:10 on a delayed penalty call when Fehr wristed a shot home from the slot. Ottawa tied it on a power play just over a minute later as Ryan deflected Patrick Wierciochs shot from the point for his 12th goal. It was the first time this season the Capitals have allowed three power-play goals in a game, and the Washington penalty kill unit has given up at least one goal in the past six games. NOTES: Capitals F Martin Erat, who on Monday demanded a trade, was a healthy scratch for the second straight game. ... 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Young hit a pinch-hit, go-ahead three-run double as part of a four-run eighth inning and the Orioles rallied past the Tigers, 7-6, in Game 2 of the American League Division Series to put them on the brink of elimination. Baltimore has now scored 12 runs in the eighth over the first two games of the set after plating eight during Thursdays 12-3 Game 1 win. The Orioles trailed 6-3 before Joba Chamberlain got Alejandro De Aza to ground out to start the eighth, but it was the only out hed record. Chamberlain hit Adam Jones with a pitch and consecutive singles by Nelson Cruz and Steve Pearce brought home Jones. Joakim Soria (0-1) tk over on the mound and walked J.J. Hardy to load the bases. A first-pitch-swinging Young then ripped a slider down the left-field line to clear the bases. Hardy was just able to slide past catcher Alex Avila to beat Ian Kinslers throw to the plate. Young, the 2012 ALCS MVP while with the Tigers, is a career .271 hitter (32- of-11 with nine homers and 21 RBI in the postseason. Zach Britton fired a 1-2-3 ninth for his first postseason save. Baltimore will lk for the series sweep Sunday in Detroit. The Tigers will trot out the third of their three straight AL Cy Young Award winners in David Price. Nick Markakis smacked a two-run homer, Cruz posted two hits and a run scored and Jones tallied a hit and a pair of runs scored for the Orioles, who can advance to their first American League Championship Series since 1997 with a win Sunday. Brad Brach (1-0) picked up the win after recording the final two outs in the top of the eighth. Kevin Gaussman had given up a run and three hits over 3 2/3 frames of relief prior to Brach entering the game. J.D. Martinez cracked a three-run shot, Nick Castellanos added a solo blast and Miguel Cabrera went 3-for-4 with a run scored for Detroit. Tigers starter Justin Verlander, who had his scoreless ALDS innings streak snapped at 32 innings, laboredd through five-plus frames.dddddddddddd. He allowed three runs on six hits and a walk. Baltimore opened the scoring with two runs in the third. Jonathan Schp hit a two-out single and Markakis laced a 3-2 fastball for his two-run homer. The ball ricocheted off the pole that holds the gate for the bullpen beyond the fence in right-center and landed back into the field of play. The homer was confirmed following a review. The Tigers answered quickly by plating five runs on just 10 pitches to start the fourth against Os starter Wei-Yin Chen, who had yielded just one hit through his first three frames. Torii Hunter lined a single to center to lead off the frame and Cabrera followed by banging a double halfway up the wall in center to put runners on second and third. Victor Martinez snuck a roller through the left side of the infield to bring home Hunter. J.D. Martinez cracked his three-run blast into the seats in left and Castellanos went the other way for his solo shot that just cleared the high wall in right to give Detroit a 5-2 lead. Baltimore got a run back in the home half on Hardys RBI single, cutting the gap to 5-3, but left two men on base in the fifth. Jones popped out in foul territory with runners on the corners to end the threat. Detroit starter Anibal Sanchez came out of the pen to fire two straight scoreless innings in the sixth and seventh before everything came unglued in the eighth. The Tigers added another run in the top half of the eighth to make it 6-3. Hunter walked and Cabrera singled before Victor Martinez belted a one-hop double to center. Hunter scored easily, but Hardy threw out Cabrera at the plate. Game Notes Young went 10-for-20 during the regular season as a pinch hitter ... Detroits bullpen is a combined 3-8 with a 5.87 ERA over their last four postseasons ... Tigers center fielder Rajai Davis (pelvic strain) was replaced in the fourth inning by a pinch-runner ... Baltimores Miguel Gonzalez will make his second career postseason start Sunday ... Sanchez had only pitched one inning since Aug. 8 while coming back from a pectoral strain. ' ' '