The Washington Nationals aren’t enjoying the kind of banner season folks thought they would, sputtering along in third place with a .500 record when most figured they’d be ruling the roost in the National League East.

You’d never know it when they play the Marlins, though.

For the seventh time in eight meetings this season, the Nationals hung a loss on the Marlins, who frittered away an early 3-0 lead on Thursday in an eventual 10-3 defeat.

The bad news for the Marlins: they still have 11 games remaining against Washington.

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