Coming off a split of their four-game set with the New York Mets in Washington, D.C., Davey Martinez’s Nationals were looking to keep the momentum going, with an 8-6 record in May, and wins in two of four series (with a loss and split in the other two). But the club dropped a third straight game in Miami on Thursday afternoon, and they fell to 8-9 on the month, and to 18-26 overall this season.
The first two losses to the Marlins came in one-run games (in which the Fish are now 15-1 on the season), and the finale was a one-run game in the eighth, when an error (E:5) led to one run, a half-inning after the Nationals had rallied for two runs to get close at 4-3, only to have Keibert Ruiz chase a first-pitch changeup from Huascar Brazoban out of the zone, and send a grounder to second which started an inning-ending double play.