Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Miami 5, Washington 2
When: 12:35 PM ET, Thursday, July 28, 2011
Where: Nationals Park, Washington, District of Columbia
Temperature: 90°
Umpires: Home - Greg Gibson, 1B - Todd Tichenor, 2B - Lance Barrett, 3B - Angel Hernandez
Attendance: 24153
Where: Nationals Park, Washington, District of Columbia
Temperature: 90°
Umpires: Home - Greg Gibson, 1B - Todd Tichenor, 2B - Lance Barrett, 3B - Angel Hernandez
Attendance: 24153
Mike Stanton homered for the fourth time in six games and Emilio Bonifacio extended his hitting streak to 26 contests with an RBI single as the visiting Florida Marlins completed a three-game sweep of the Washington Nationals with a 5-2 victory on Thursday.
With Florida nursing a 2-1 lead, Stanton led off the sixth inning with his career-best 24th homer of the season. Five batters later, Bonifacio blooped a shallow single to center to plate Brett Hayes.
Brian Sanchez (4-1) relieved an ineffective Brad Hand to toss 1 1/3 scoreless innings as the Marlins won their fifth in a row.
Ryan Zimmerman collected four hits for the second straight game and Jayson Werth had a pair of RBI singles for Washington, which fell for the 12th time in 16 contests.
John Lannan (7-7) dropped to 2-4 in his career against the Marlins after permitting four runs on five hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Miami | Washington | |
| Brad Hand | Player | John Lannan |
| No Decision | W/L | Loss |
| 3.2 | IP | 5.2 |
| 3 | Strikeouts | 4 |
| 3 | Hits | 5 |
| 2.45 | ERA | 6.35 |
Hitting
| Miami | Washington | |
| Brett Hayes | Player | Ryan Zimmerman |
| 2 | Hits | 4 |
| 1 | RBI | 0 |
| 0 | HR | 0 |
| 3 | TB | 5 |
| .667 | Avg | .800 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
| Miami | 9 | 1 | 14 | .273 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Washington | 7 | 0 | 8 | .226 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 |