PHOENIX -- Max Scherzer struck out 11 in eight innings and delivered a two-run single to help his cause in the Washington Nationals 8-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday.Washington earned its fourth road series sweep of the season and first since May 30-June 1 at Philadelphia. Arizona lost its fourth straight and sixth in seven games. The Diamondbacks are winless in nine Wednesday games at home this season.Scherzer (12-6) allowed three runs on four hits, giving up two homers, and walked one. He is 3-0 in four starts against his former team, which drafted the four-time All-Star and former Cy Young Award winner No. 11 overall in 2006.Daniel Murphys sixth-inning solo home run broke a 1-1 tie before Scherzer bounced a single up the middle with the bases loaded and two outs, driving in Anthony Rendon and Danny Espinosa.Murphy, the NLs leading hitter with a .358 average, has hit safely in 17 of 19 games and has seven home runs in that span, 20 on the season.Scherzer held the Diamondbacks hitless for four innings, but David Peralta led off the bottom of the fifth with a double to left field. Peralta advanced to third on a wild pitch, and with one out, scored when Bryce Harper dropped a sliding catch of Brandon Drurys shallow fly ball to right.That tied the game at 1, after Trea Turners second career home run and first of 2016 came with one out in the top of the third.The Nationals went ahead 4-1 in the sixth before Jake Lambs solo shot in the bottom of the inning. It was Lambs second homer in as many days.Yasmany Tomas cut the Nationals lead to one with a home run in the seventh, the first time in his career hes gone deep in back-to-back games.The Nationals scored four runs in the ninth off Arizonas troubled bullpen, on Espinosas RBI ground-rule double, a walk and Clint Robinsons two-run pinch-hit single.Diamondbacks starter Zack Godley (3-2) allowed four runs on eight hits with seven strikeouts and a walk in six innings.TRAINERS RMNationals: Harper returned to the lineup after missing Tuesdays game because of illness. ... IF Ryan Zimmerman remained out with a wrist injury; he hasnt played since July 31 at San Francisco.UP NEXTNationals: The club had yet to name a starting pitcher for Friday at home against San Francisco after Thursdays day off.Diamondbacks: RHP Braden Shipley (1-1) is set for his third major league start Friday against Milwaukee, after making his major league debut July 25 against the Brewers on the road. 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A few of them even scored more goals than the Crimson Tides junior midfielder had.No one was as brilliantly efficient as espnWs national player of the week.DeProspo tk three shots in the only game Alabama played a week ago, a 5-1 win at Tennessee to begin SEC play, but all three found the back of the net from beyond 20 yards.A season ago, Alabama scored just four goals on the road against SEC opponents. DeProspo nearly matched that on her own before the game in Knoxville even reached halftime.The first goal suffers only in comparison to those that followed. Tennessee appeared to have escaped early danger when it cleared an Alabama cross into a crowded 18-yard box in the ninth minute of a scoreless game. But standing alone about 20 yards from the goal and in line with the left post, DeProspo settled the clearance with one touch and hit a left-fted volley that sliced past the diving goalkeeper into the net on the opposite side of the goal.She was just getting warmed up.As the 30th minute arrived, Tennessee again scrambled against pressure. One of its defenders intercepted a ball rolling across the top of the 18-yard box and deflected it back toward midfield. Behind the play and again all alone, DeProspo tk about a five-step run-up and a full swing at the still rolling ball. No goalkeeper in the world would have stopped the resulting shot, a line drive from 25 yards that smacked into the top right corner of the net for a 2-0 lead.When Alabamas Abbie Boswell earned a free kick five minutes later, this tiime on the right side as the Crimson Tide faced the goal, there could have been little doubt who would stand over it.dddddddddddd. From a little more than 20 yards and facing a four-player wall, DeProspo stuck the ball into the same right corner she found with her first two goals. The keeper tk one sliding step in the wrong direction as DeProspo hit the ball and could then only stand and watch the resultAny one of the efforts could have been the goal of the season for most players -- all the more for a player who began the season with three total career goals (DeProspo played her freshman season at Louisville). She collected them in less than half an hour.It isnt easy for a program that was treading water to develop the soccer equivalent of Simone Manuels stroke. Alabama isnt there yet in its second season under Wes Hart. And there will be growing pains, like a 1-0 loss at Samford on Tuesday night. Still, that game, which fell outside the scope of this award, marked just the second time this season the Crimson Tide went without a goal -- perhaps not coincidentally, the only games in which DeProspo didnt record a shot.After the brava hat trick, Hart talked about the belief and the confidence he sees in the players. Coaches will say that. The more convincing prf is that Alabama has already scored more goals than it did all of last season. The prf is that when the ball fell to DeProspo, she didnt hesitate to do something with it. Again and again and again. ' ' '