{"id":295361,"date":"2026-06-04T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:36:08","slug":"miami-marlins-complete-a-3-game-sweep-in-washington-with-a-4-1-win-over-the-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295361\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Marlins complete a 3-game sweep in Washington with a 4-1 win over the Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Meyer allowed two hits in seven innings, and Joe Mack hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth to lift the Miami Marlins to a 4-1 win over Washington on Wednesday and a three-game sweep of the Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer (6-0) is unbeaten in 13 starts this year, tying the franchise record to start a season set by Livan Hernandez in 1997. He allowed a run and two walks with seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>With the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth, Mack lined a single to right-center field off Clayton Beeter (1-1) to put Miami up 3-1. Calvin Faucher worked the bottom of the eighth for the Marlins, and Pete Fairbanks finished for his seventh save in nine chances.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a streaky stretch for the Marlins, who lost three in a row, won four and lost five before their current run of three straight wins.<\/p>\n<p>Esteury Ruiz homered in the second to give the Marlins a 1-0 lead, but the Nationals tied it in the third. With the bases loaded and one out, shortstop Otto Lopez \u2014 playing in a bit \u2014 wasn&#8217;t able to handle a grounder up the middle by Dylan Crews. Everyone was safe and Lopez was charged with an error.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Mead followed with another grounder to Lopez, who this time started a double play to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>After a walk and a wild pitch to start the fifth, Washington second baseman Nasim Nu\u00f1ez pulled off a risky move when he threw to third on a grounder up the middle. It was in time to retire Connor Norby, and the call was upheld after a review.<\/p>\n<p>In the eighth, Beeter allowed a single to Xavier Edwards and a walk to Liam Hicks. Then the right-hander wasn&#8217;t able to get to a bunt by Jakob Marsee that went for an infield single. With the bases full, Beeter struck out Owen Caissie. Then Nu\u00f1ez made another big defensive play, fielding a grounder up the middle and throwing home for the second out.<\/p>\n<p>That became moot when Mack delivered the game&#8217;s biggest hit, putting Miami up by two.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Stowers tripled home a run in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are off Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Miami sends Tyler Phillips (0-1) to the mound at home Friday night against Tampa Bay. The Nationals are at Arizona, with Foster Griffin (6-2) starting.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Meyer allowed two hits in seven innings, and Joe Mack hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9004,123,125,3822,124,110,24224],"class_list":["post-295361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miami-news","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}