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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Max Meyer<\/a> allowed two hits in seven innings, and Joe Mack<\/a> hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth to lift the Miami Marlins<\/a> to a 4-1 win over Washington on Wednesday and a three-game sweep of the Nationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

With the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth, Mack lined a single to right-center field off Clayton Beeter<\/a> (1-1) to put Miami up 3-1. Calvin Faucher<\/a> worked the bottom of the eighth for the Marlins, and Pete Fairbanks<\/a> finished for his seventh save in nine chances.<\/p>\n

It’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

Esteury Ruiz<\/a> 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<\/a> \u2014 playing in a bit \u2014 wasn’t able to handle a grounder up the middle by Dylan Crews. Everyone was safe and Lopez was charged with an error.<\/p>\n

Curtis Mead<\/a> followed with another grounder to Lopez, who this time started a double play to end the inning.<\/p>\n

After a walk and a wild pitch to start the fifth, Washington second baseman Nasim Nunez<\/a> pulled off a risky move when he threw to third on a grounder up the middle. It was in time to retire Connor Norby<\/a>, and the call was upheld after a review.<\/p>\n

In the eighth, Beeter allowed a single to Xavier Edwards<\/a> and a walk to Liam Hicks<\/a>. Then the right-hander wasn’t able to get to a bunt by Jakob Marsee<\/a> that went for an infield single. With the bases full, Beeter struck out Owen Caissie<\/a>. Then Nu\u00f1ez made another big defensive play, fielding a grounder up the middle and throwing home for the second out.<\/p>\n

That became moot when Mack delivered the game’s biggest hit, putting Miami up by two.<\/p>\n

Kyle Stowers<\/a> tripled home a run in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Both teams are off Thursday.<\/p>\n

Miami sends Tyler Phillips<\/a> (0-1) to the mound at home Friday night against Tampa Bay. The Nationals are at Arizona, with Foster Griffin<\/a> (6-2) starting.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Max Meyer allowed two hits in seven innings, and Joe Mack hit a tiebreaking two-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1111,9350,9871,76469,22740,18789,1388,7728,19,1816,1714,778,58,4171,4,1753,9677,848,12436,6878],"class_list":["post-716523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-baseball","tag-calvin-faucher","tag-connor-norby","tag-esteury-ruiz","tag-event_recap","tag-jakob-marsee","tag-joe-mack","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-liam-hicks","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marlins","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb","tag-otto-lopez","tag-owen-caissie","tag-pete-fairbanks","tag-tyler-phillips","tag-xavier-edwards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116688169460755854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}