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Recap: Marlins @ Nationals Game 2

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The Washington Nationals defeated the Miami Marlins 7 to 6 in the tenth inning.

In the first inning, Gorkys Hernandez gave the Marlins the one to nothing lead with a solo home run to left center field. Two batters later, Giancarlo Stanton expands the lead to two as he belts a solo homer to left field.

Mark Buehrle started the game for Miami. He tossed seven innings and he gave up three runs -all earned-, two runs came via home run. Also, Buehrle struck out five batters and walked two.

The Marlins scored a pair of runs in the top of fifth. One run came in because of an fielding error by Adam LaRoche and the other was thanks to a RBI single from John Buck, Carlos Lee would score.

So after five innings, the Marlins were beating the Nationals five to three.

The Marlins, once again, would score a run because of an error, this time by third baseman Ryan Zimmerman.

Meanwhile, the Nationals scored a pair of runs in the eighth and would tie up the game to six in the ninth as Jayson Werth belts a solo homer and Heath Bell blew the save.

Eventually, Washington went on and won the game in the tenth as Corey Brown hit the walk-off single to right, Ian Desmond scored the winning run.