{"id":378816,"date":"2026-08-23T03:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378816\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:42:25","slug":"miami-marlins-beat-washington-nationals-4-2-reach-40-home-wins-for-first-time-since-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378816\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Marlins beat Washington Nationals 4-2; reach 40 home wins for first time since 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez and Jakob Marsee hit solo homers, Eury P\u00e9rez pitched five innings and the Miami Marlins beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins improved to 40-25 at home, the first time they have reached 40 since 2023 when they set a club record with 46.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9rez (7-9) allowed one earned run on three hits while striking out four. Calvin Faucher worked a hitless ninth for his second save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Otto Lopez drove in Miami&#8217;s first two runs with a single in the first. Hern\u00e1ndez homered to left field in the second to make it 3-0. Marsee followed in the fourth with his eighth home run of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s Jake Irvin (2-8) surrendered all four runs on six hits in six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Washington scored a run in the fourth on Lopez&#8217;s throwing error, and Dylan Crews had an RBI double in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Nationals LHP Jackson Kent (0-1, 9.39 ERA) was set to start opposite Marlins RHP Janson Junk (6-8, 4.37) on Sunday in the series finale.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>See AP&#8217;s full MLB coverage here               <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez and Jakob Marsee hit solo homers, Eury P\u00e9rez pitched five innings and the Miami Marlins beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9004,123,125,3822,124,110,24224],"class_list":["post-378816","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\/378816","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=378816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}