Weather: 87 degrees, Cloudy.
Wind: 8 mph, Out To CF.
Umpires: HP--Whitson, 1B--Muchlinski, 2B--Winters, 3B--Timmons.
Time: 3:06 (Delayed 0:24)
Attendance: 26,365
Howie Kendrick led the Washington offense, which put up two 4-run
innings, winding up with enough runs to withstand a late Miami rally.
Kendrick started things off with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the
second against Marlins’ ace Caleb Smith. An inning later, with 2 out and no one
on, Smith allowed an Adam Eaton double and then walked the next two batters.
Kendrick then singled in two runs, and Brian Dozier doubled in two more. The
Nats got to reliever Wei-Yin Chen in the bottom of the 6th, plating
one run on back-to-back doubles by Yan Gomes and pinch-hitter Michael A.
Taylor, followed by an infield single by Eaton. Rendon then tripled in two runs
and scored on a Juan Soto sac fly.
Erick Fedde turned in his second consecutive strong start, blanking the
visitors over his five innings of work. The Nats’ bullpen started off well, as
Tanner Rainey and Javy Guerra kept the Marlins off the scoreboard in the 6th
and 7th. Cracks began to show when Guerra allowed a two-run HR to
Neil Walker in the always-troublesome 8th. With a 7-run lead, Davey
took the opportunity to let James Bourque make his major-league debut in the
top of the 9th. He promptly walked Austin Dean on 4 pitches and fell
behind Miguel Rojas 3-1 before inducing a double-play grounder. Unfortunately
the final out eluded him, as he allowed a double, walk, single, and another
double before he was replaced by Wander Suero. Suero allowed one more run on a
Walker single, but fanned Starlin Castro to finally seal the win.
We had a short period of scattered large raindrops in the second
inning, but it ended relatively quickly. Several innings later, however, a
similar period led to a brief but torrential downpour, making this our first
rain delay or postponement of the season.
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