Sunday, May 15, 2011
Posted: 5:01 p.m.Updated: 11:34 p.m.
The Associated Press
Nationals 8, Marlins 4
BOX SCORE
WASHINGTON -- Jason Marquis pitched into the seventh inning to win his fifth game, drove in two runs and led the Washington Nationals over the Florida Marlins 8-4 on Sunday.
Ivan Rodriguez also had three RBIs for the Nationals, who scored six runs in the first inning against Javier Vazquez before hanging on to win.
Marquis (5-1) drove in two runs in the first with an RBI double, and added a single in the fourth. He allowed two runs in the second -- one of them unearned -- and two in the seventh, but still got credit for snapping Florida's eight-game winning streak in Washington.
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Vazquez (2-4), who left the team for three days after the death of his wife's relative in Puerto Rico, allowed six runs and six hits in four innings.
Todd Coffey relieved Marquis and Emilio Bonifacio greeted him by ricocheting a ball off his right forearm, and he had to leave. With runners on first and second, Tyler Clippard retired Hanley Ramirez to end the seventh and pitched a scoreless eighth. Cole Kimball worked the ninth.
Roger Bernadina led off the first with a bunt single, and Jayson Werth reached on an infield hit of his own. Laynce Nix singled to score Bernadina. and after Adam LaRoche walked to load the bases, Rodriguez singled to score Werth and Nix.
Mets 7, Astros 4
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HOUSTON -- Justin Turner homered and drove in a career-high five runs, and Jason Pridie hit a go-ahead single and stole home for the Mets.
Chris Capuano (3-4) allowed six hits and two runs in five innings. He struck out six.
Aneury Rodriguez (0-2) didn't allow a hit until the fifth, but finished with five earned runs and four walks in his third major league start.
Francisco Rodriguez pitched a perfect ninth for his 12th straight save. He has not allowed a run in 14 appearances since April 14.
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