2B Danny Espinosa was out of the lineup as he remains in a slump. He doesn't have a hit in his last 25 at-bats and is 2-for-45. He's hitting .150 on the season with a team-high 39 strikeouts. His 13 RBIs is third best on the team.

2B Danny Espinosa did not start for the first time this season on Sunday. He has three home runs and 12 RBIs, but is hitting .161 and has struck out 28 times in 68 at-bats.

2B Danny Espinosa trails only DH Albert Pujols (14) and CF Mike Trout (13) for the Angels' team lead in RBIs (12), but he leads the American League with 27 strikeouts, while drawing only three walks. It puts him on a pace for 243 strikeouts, which would be a major league record. (The current record is 223, held by Mark Reynolds, set in 2009 while with Arizona). Espinosa struck out 174 times last year, and led the National League in strikeouts with 189 in 2012 while with Washington.

2B Danny Espinosa hit two doubles, both to lead off innings. They were Espinosa's first doubles of the season. This marked the first multi-double game for Espinosa since Aug. 18, 2015, at Colorado when he was a member of the Washington Nationals.

2B Danny Espinosa is hitting just .229, but he leads the team with 12 RBIs and is tied with CF Mike Trout for the team lead with three homers. All three of his homers, including his three-run blast Thursday against the Rangers, have come in the ninth inning. No other player in the majors has more than one ninth-inning homer.

2B Danny Espinosa hit his first home run for his new team, a dramatic two-out, three-run shot in the ninth inning that gave the Angels a 7-6 win over the A's on Tuesday. He hit an 0-2 pitch from RHP Ryan Dull. "The slider was left a little out over the plate, and I got good barrel to it," said Espinosa, who enjoyed a Gatorade shower from his teammates during a postgame interview. "To come through for the team is the best feeling."

SS Danny Espinoza fills the void created when the Angels traded Howie Kendrick to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2014. Espinoza hit 24 home runs last year but batted .209 and struck out 174 times for the Washington Nationals.

SS Danny Espinosa was hit by a pitch in the third inning, the third time he was tagged in the series. That is the most in NL Division Series history.

SS Danny Espinosa struck out his first three at-bats Friday and then manager Dusty Baker used Stephen Drew as pinch-hitter for the switch-hitter. Would Baker consider starting someone else at short? "Well, who else do I have?" Baker asked. "That's my answer. I mean, you can give me somebody better then I can play somebody instead of him."Espinosa hit .209 during the season and struck out 174 times in 157 games.

SS Danny Espinosa had two hits Saturday after he entered the game hitting .140 in his last 30 games. He is now 6-for-53 in his last 17 games. "Well, that's all he needs to do because the home runs come when they want too but you got to mix in some singles and doubles in between so that's big going into the playoffs," manager Dusty Baker said. "We had some conversations the last well a couple days ago about that fact and Danny's so strong, you just meet the ball and the fact that the pitcher's supplying the power and all you got to do is hit it at the right point and time of contact and on the barrel of the bat."

SS Danny Espinosa hit a three-run homer Monday at Miami. It was his 22nd homer of the season, a career high. He is one of five Nationals players with at least 20 homers this season, joining RF Bryce Harper, C Wilson Ramos, 2B Daniel Murphy and LF Jayson Werth. The Nationals are the only team in the NL that has accomplished that feat this year. Espinosa also has 66 RBIs this season, tying a career high.

SS Danny Espinosa, away for the birth of a son in California, didn't return to the Nationals until after the start of Friday's game against the Braves. He played in Wednesday's game against the New York Mets in Washington before flying to the West Coast to be with his wife, Sara, and see the baby.

SS Danny Espinosa, who started Wednesday, is expected to leave the team and fly to California, where his wife is expecting their first child. He could miss a few games. The Nationals are off Thursday and begin a series on Friday in Atlanta. He was 0-for-3 Wednesday, and his average fell to .214.

SS Danny Espinosa went 2-for-3 on Tuesday in a win over the Phillies to raise his average to .226. He has reached base in nine straight games and 13 of 14, though his average has hovered right around the .225 mark since early July.

SS Danny Espinosa entered Wednesday hitting .170 in his last 15 games and .162 in his last 30. He hit his second homer in two games, a solo shot in the fifth inning, to trim the margin to 5-2. It was the 20th homer of the season for Espinosa, who hit a career-high 21 homers in 2011.

SS Danny Espinosa homered in Monday night's 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. That snapped a 38-game stretch without a home run, the longest streak of his career in terms of games played.

SS Danny Espinosa entered Friday hitting .115 in his last 15 games and .196 in his last 30. He was 0-for-3 Friday with two strikeouts and his average fell to .222.

SS Danny Espinosa was named the National League player of the week on Tuesday after he hit five homers during the week with two grand slams and a pair of two-homer games. "I don't know if anybody could have done any better. That was a tremendous week," Washington manager Dusty Baker said. Espinosa is hitting .246 after he went 2-for-4 Tuesday. He has 18 homers to lead the team.

SS Danny Espinosa was named National League Player of the Week on Tuesday after he had five homers and 17 RBIs and batted .423. He became the fifth shortstop to hit two grand slams in the same four-game series.

SS Danny Espinosa hit a grand slam in the third inning Thursday and a three-run shot in the fourth. He homered from each side of the plate."There were people calling for Danny's job earlier (in the year)," manager Dusty Baker said. "(The seven-RBI night) was timely, much needed. That is quite a feat. You don't see that very often. That is quite a night -- a month (of production) for some guys. He has been playing lights out. We are all happy for him."