MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) – Trevor Rogers offered his longest outing of the season by permitting one run in six innings, and the Miami Marlins stretched their successful streak to 5 video games with a 3-2 sweep-completing victory over the reeling Washington Nationals on Thursday.
Rogers (1-3) got here in with a 6.94 ERA however lowered that to five.09 after giving up simply two hits towards a Nationals lineup that has produced merely 16 runs throughout an eight-game dropping skid.
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Cole Sulser labored round a leadoff stroll within the ninth to get his first save of 2022 in his first likelihood.
Patrick Corbin (0-4) misplaced once more for Washington, regardless of his finest outing of the season, with three runs — two earned — and 4 hits in six-plus innings.
The Marlins improved to 10-8 and are surprisingly in second place within the NL East after a 1-4 begin. The Nationals, fifth within the division in every of the 2 seasons since successful the 2019 World Series, are there once more and fell to 6-15.
Neither membership was precisely good Thursday, by any means. Plenty of misplays, wayward pitches, and many others.
The Nationals went forward 1-0 within the first on Josh Bell’s RBI double to proper after a wild pitch and a handed ball helped get César Hernández to 3rd following a leadoff single.
Miami made it 1-all with an unearned run within the third, when the Nationals made two miscues: a throwing error on shortstop Lucius Fox — a rookie who can also be 0 for 20 and drew consideration by vomiting on the sphere throughout Sunday’s sport — and a fielding error on heart fielder Victor Robles. Jon Berti drove dwelling the tying run with a double.
Corbin pitched into the seventh for the primary time this season however that didn’t go properly as soon as he acquired there. Brian Anderson led off with a double after Robles twisted and turned and couldn’t discover the ball, dropping his hat and sun shades within the course of.
A scary second got here subsequent: Corbin hit Miguel Rojas on the flap of his helmet. Rojas tried to spin out of the way in which and ended up face-down within the grime close to the plate. Corbin instantly dropped to his knees in entrance of the mound and bowed his head on the infield grass.
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Marlins supervisor Don Mattingly and a coach got here out to examine on Rojas, who rubbed the appropriate facet of his jaw whereas kneeling. Rojas remained within the sport and ultimately went to first base; as quickly as he did, Nationals supervisor Dave Martinez walked from his dugout to the mound and eliminated Corbin.
Righty reliever Victor Arano entered, and Mattingly went to a left-handed pinch hitter, Jesús Sánchez, who promptly singled within the go-ahead run. After a groundout produced the primary out of the inning, Arano’s wild pitch allowed one other run in to offer Miami a 3-1 lead.
Washington pulled inside one run on consecutive doubles by Robles and Hernández, however Bell struck out to finish the menace.
PREGAME MOVE
The Marlins optioned LHP Daniel Castano to Triple-A Jacksonville and recalled RHP Zach Pop from that minor league crew. Pop was 1-0 with a 4.12 ERA in 50 reduction appearances for Miami final season as a rookie.
UP NEXT
Marlins: Return to Miami for a six-game homestand that begins Friday towards Seattle. RHP Elieser Hernandez (1-1, 5.87 ERA) begins the opener.
Nationals: Head out on a three-city, nine-game highway journey, beginning at San Francisco. RHP Aaron Sanchez (0-1 8.31), who performed for the Giants final season, will probably be on the mound night time for Washington. The Giants swept a four-game sequence at Nationals Park final week.
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