WASHINGTON (CBSMiami) – The Miami Marlins arrived in our nation’s capital as one of the hottest teams in baseball.
Two days later, Miami is hoping to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of the Washington Nationals.
Fueled by their offense, the Marlins hadn’t lost consecutive games since August 9 and 10, which ironically came in the same ballpark against the same Nationals.
Washington has done a good job of cooling off the Marlins hot bats while scoring a bunch of their own.
Miami came into the series having won 13 of their last 16, averaging 5.