WASHINGTON — Stephen Strasburg can hardly throw any better. He set a strikeout record in front of President Barack Obama in another sensational performance.

So what rankled him? He didn't field and bunt as well as he pitched.

The baseball holiday known as Strasmas — it comes every fifth day on your calendar right now — was again a spectacle Friday night. The 21-year-old rookie struck out 10 to run his total to an unprecedented 32 through three starts, but he experienced his first no-decision as the Chicago White Sox beat the Washington Nationals 2-1 in 11 innings before another sellout crowd.

Strasburg's answers about his strikeout record ("That's never going to be a goal of mine") and the president ("Awesome — obviously he's from Chicago, so he wanted to come watch the White Sox, too") were mostly obligatory, but he was willing to speak more at length about two mistakes any pitcher might routinely make.

The game's first batter, speedy Juan Pierre, barely beat Strasburg to the bag on a grounder to first and eventually came around to score Chicago's first run. Then, in the sixth, Strasburg failed to get a bunt down with a runner on first and one out.

"Didn't get over there in time in the first inning, probably should have been an out there," Strasburg said. "I didn't get the bunt down. It's the little things like that, up here they're going to exploit it. I'm just going to come in tomorrow and work on my bunting a little bit — and see the (fielding) play out before it happens next time."

With an attitude like that, he's going to be hard to beat. The White Sox did it by countering with Gavin Floyd, who faced the minimum number of batters through six of his eight innings.

Floyd allowed four hits with five strikeouts and one walk but got only one run of support. He has received no run support three times already this season and no-hit the Chicago Cubs through 6 2-3 innings on Sunday.

"Pretty good one," Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen said when asked about Strasburg. "But I think mine was better than him."