After a fifth straight loss, the Nationals held a players-only meeting Wednesday.
“Let’s get this thing going. It’s do or die now,” Trea Turner said after the meeting.
The Nationals shortstop listened to his own command, as he hit two home runs and drove in eight runs Thursday as Washington defeated the Miami Marlins 14-12 in the biggest comeback in franchise history.
Washington trailed 9-0 going into the last of the fourth, when Turner hit a solo homer to make it 9-1. The Nationals scored four in the fifth and then five more in the sixth, as Turner hit his first career grand slam off reliever and losing pitcher Adam Conley to give the Nationals a lead of 10-9.