WASHINGTON -- The Milwaukee Brewers looked confused in the first inning Monday against Washington. By the end of the day, though, the Nationals were the ones left dazed at the plate.Junior Guerra outpitched Max Scherzer, Martin Maldonado homered and the Brewers defeated the Nationals 1-0 to snap a four-game losing streak.Junior carried the load today, manager Craig Counsell said after Milwaukee won despite having its first hit taken away as a result of batting out of order in the first inning.Guerra (6-1) allowed only two hits in 7 1/3 innings, striking out seven and walking two. The 31-year-old rookie threw eight scoreless innings of two-hit ball in his previous start and has won three straight.It feels like hes even getting better, Counsell said. In the biggest spots he seems to step up even a little more.Maldonado gave the Brewers the lead in the fifth when he sent Scherzers 2-1 pitch over the visitors bullpen for his third homer.Most of the time, solo bombs, they dont beat you, said Scherzer, who has allowed a league-high 21 homers. It happened today.Jeremy Jeffress pitched the ninth for his 22nd save.Scherzer (9-6) threw 114 pitches in six innings. He gave up four hits while striking out seven and walking three.In three of his past four starts, he hasnt lasted more than six innings.I just havent been quite as efficient over the past couple of outings, Scherzer said. Im kind of scratching my head over that.One day after hitting six homers in a 12-1 win against the Reds, Washington hitters were stifled by Guerra. During one stretch, he retired 12 straight before Jayson Werth singled with two outs in the sixth. Then, with runners on second and third after a walk and a wild pitch, Guerra struck out Wilson Ramos.I was just trying to make quality pitches, keep out of his hot zone and just keep the ball low, Guerra said through a translator.Brewers shortstop Jonathan Villar made a sliding catch of Ben Reveres pop fly along the left-field line to end the eighth.Ive always said the advantage goes to the pitcher when you havent seen him before, Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. We flirted with the fence most of the day and he kind of had us fishing for that split-finger.Fans were still settling in for the traditional 11:05 a.m. July 4 game when the Brewers batted out of order in the first. After Ryan Brauns apparent two-out single, Baker came out to talk to plate umpire Cory Blaser.Ultimately, Jonathan Lucroy, listed third on the lineup card given to the umpires before the game, was charged with an at-bat and an out.I screwed up, Counsell said. I was going with some different lineups yesterday ... and it was just my mistake.Braun, who usually bats third, hit fourth instead Monday and led off the second inning by grounding out.Obviously, against Max Scherzer youre not going to get too many opportunities to have baserunners, Braun said. So it was a challenging way to start the day.GOOD MORNING!Asked what the hardest part of making an 11:05 a.m. start was, Guerra responded: When my alarm went off at 8.Revere said of the early start: Of course 11 is early, but its one of those deals where you just have to wake yourself up, slap yourself in the face or something.TRAINERS ROOMBrewers: 1B Chris Carter, who is 1 for 11 with seven strikeouts vs. Scherzer, was not in the starting lineup.Nationals: RHP Jonathan Papelbon (right rib muscle strain) returned from the 15-day DL and pitched a scoreless ninth. ... Baker held banged-up 2B Daniel Murphy out of the lineup, but he flied out as pinch hitter in the eighth. ... 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Alistair Brownlee knows a thing or two about what makes a great Olympian and insists there is more to Britains brilliance in Brazil than money.Under it all we are actually a sports-mad nation, said the triathlon champion who became the first man to retain his title on Thursday. There is so much that goes on away from the funding. There is a massive sporting heritage and that gets overlooked.The same goes for Yorkshire, the county Brownlee is from and which could lay claim on Thursday evening to athletes who have won four gold medals, four silvers and two bronzes.Day in, day out we see people cycling, cross country races, people running, people swimming. The British support far out-weighed any other countrys support [at the triathlon]. There were easily more British flags out there than all the other flags put together, more Yorkshire flags than any other country.When we race in Leeds or London they have by far the biggest crowds on the circuit and it shows we love it. That has to count for something because it makes our pool [of participants] big.Money makes a difference too, of course. The UKs triathlon governing body was given nearly ￡7.5 million for the years 2013-17 from an overall Olympic payout to British sports just short of ￡274.5m.The money comes from lottery funding and is distributed by UK Sport, which uses a model that cuts investment if a sport fails to meet its targets for excellence.Triathlon has achieved its goal of two medals from Rio with Brownlee and brother Jonny taking gold and silver at Copacabana beach. The support from UK Sport is phenomenal, Alistair said. It allows me to sit down every year and see what I need to get into shape, access to staff, physios, coachhes physiologists, everything.ddddddddddddWe [Britain] have that attitude that the Olympics is everything. To win at the Olympics you have to turn up better than you are the rest of the time and thats a really, really important construct that we get right across so much UK sport.It comes from the funding model and everything else, and there is a great feeling of people doing well.The feelgood factor is particularly strong in Yorkshire. The countys roll of honour for these Games so far includes divers Jack Laugher and Chris Mears, rowers Andrew Triggs Hodge and Zoe Lee, heptathlete Jess Ennis-Hill, cyclists Ed Clancy and Katy Marchant and gymnast Nile Wilson, in addition to the Brownlees.Boxer Nicola Adams, who is assured of at least silver after making the flyweight final, will be added to that list on Saturday.I am very proud to be from Yorkshire and its interesting that there are so many medals across so many sports, Brownlee said. It would be interesting to see if it is relatively good for its size, because its quite a big place.On Thursday evenings standings, Yorkshires tally would have been enough to claim 16th place in the medal table, one place below Brazil and above nations such as Kenya and Canada.We have, like the rest of Britain, a massive sporting heritage which we make use of all the time and has brought us through, Brownlee said.[That comes from] people loving sport and endurance sport, going out on the Dales and out and about on bikes. People [there] love sport and that has been crucial in our upbringing and careers and long may it continue. ' ' '