Harper and Strasburg help Nats complete sweep of Braves

A pair of former No. 1 overall selections shone in the same game again as the Nationals beat the Braves 6-2 to complete a four-game sweep.

Bryce Harper, taken with the first pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft, continues to place his name in the baseball history books before he turns 24.

Harper slammed his 100th career home run in the bottom of the third, a grand slam off of Julio Teheran, to lift the Nationals to a 4-1 lead.

At 23 years and 181 days old, Harper becomes the eighth-youngest in player in major league history to hit his 100th home run. He also joins Ian Desmond and Ryan Zimmerman as the only players to hit their 100th homers in a Nationals uniform. It was also his first career grand slam.

With his start delayed by a day due to illness, right-hander Stephen Strasburg, the first overall pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, rebounded well with 7 2/3 strong innings. He gave up only two runs on four hits, while striking out seven and walking two to earn his second win of the season.

Wilson Ramos added to the offense in the fourth with a mammoth solo shot over the Braves bullpen and the Nationals led 5-1. It was Ramos' first homer of the season. Ramos later added an RBI double.

The Braves got on the board first in the top of the third with their first base hits against Strasburg. Jace Peterson led off with a single and then reached third following a sacrifice and a groundout.

Nick Markakis then slapped a clean single through the hole between shortstop and third and the Braves led 1-0. But that was their only lead and it was short-lived.

Markakis also had a run-scoring double in the eighth.

The Nationals are 7-1. The Braves fall to 0-9, having lost to the Nationals 14 straight times in D.C., their longest losing streak against one opponent in one venue since they faced the Dodgers at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field over the 1951-52 season as the Boston Braves.