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Lack of late-inning execution holding 7-10 Nats back

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MIAMI — Baseball has a reputation for being among the most complex major sports in the world, but sometimes it’s actually a rather simple game.

Take the Nationals, who after a 3-2 loss to the Marlins on Friday night are now a disappointing 7-10 on the season, the vast majority of those losses coming in an all-too-familiar fashion.

“It’s later innings,” Bryce Harper said. “We can’t get a guy in, they get a guy in, and they win the ballgame.”

That really does sum up the season’s first three weeks for the Nationals.