Marlins rough up Roark, defeat Nationals 6-4

But it was another sacrifice fly – Jose Lobaton’s with one out and the bases loaded in the 10th – that won it for the Nationals. The right-hander spent time at Triple-A New Orleans, and he has recovered from a right inner ear disorder.

Scherzer dumped the sauce on Lobaton, and pitcher Doug Fister and shortstop Ian Desmond poured liquid on the catcher in front of the dugout after the winning run scored. “Being able to win a lot of games, this is kind of what our expectations were from the beginning of the year”. “My hair still smells like chocolate”. When Urena left the mound two outs later, Washington was on top by one. Washington is 8-2 in extra-inning games this year.

The Marlins tied it in the ninth against Jonathan Papelbon, but lost for just the fifth time in 17 games in the 10th.

Center fielder Michael A. Taylor, after pinch-hitting in the sixth, drove in the go-ahead run with a two-out single in the eighth to give the Nationals a 4-3 lead. “We had an opportunity to tie it up in the eighth”, Desmond said.

The Nationals (75-71), who had won four straight, are now eight games behind the idle first-place New York Mets in the National League East with 16 games left. Williams said he was also “mindful” of lingering soreness in Taylor’s right knee.

This win against the Nationals marks Miami’s eleventh win of September, tying them with the Dodgers for MLB’s best record this month.

Matt Williams let him finish the inning.

Washington tied the game at 2 in a tense sixth inning. He surrendered 7 hits, walked a batter, and threw 48 strikes among his 73 total pitches.

Werth walked slowly to first base while looking at Fernandez, but nothing else transpired. Fernandez was tagged with two wild pitches while Urena threw one as well.

“First time we’ve done that over last two or three weeks”, Jennings said of the lack of timely hitting.

Drew Storen has thrown his last pitch of the season for the Washington Nationals.

It was the third game in a row at Nationals Park this year that Bour has hit a homer.

A day after he was unavailable due to illness, the closer allowed an unearned run on Gordon’s sacrifice fly after Miguel Rojas doubled and reached third on right fielder Bryce Harper’s overthrow. The Marlins’ ace struck out eight in 5.2 innings.

With his 2-for-4 effort Thursday night, Prado is 20 for 60 against Washington in 2015, with two homers and six RBIs.

“Great swing. The ball went really far”, Fernandez said. “Just a couple pitches here and there that I didn’t execute and they hit them”. Tweet it out using #MMfanpitch for your chance to see your idea posted! That’s what I try to do every time I go out there. Despite that turn of events, Werth says it wasn’t until the last day of the season he felt like it could actually happen. Jayson Werth also launched four homers in the set versus his former team and is 5-for-8 (.625) against Cosart. “If they get another run there, it builds momentum and it’s even tougher to get them out the next inning”.

Marlins starter Jose Fernandez allowed two runs in 5 2-3 innings in his second start since returning from a biceps strain. In five previous starts in Miami against the Nationals he is 3-0 with an ERA of 0.58… The Marlins have won six of their last seven when scoring more than three runs.

Gordon led off the game with a single and one out later Prado homered.