Washington had its own attrition to manage — the bullpen has been stretched thin most of the summer — but the bigger story in Nationals Park these days is who's on the way back. James Wood is working through a rehab assignment with an eye on returning once rosters expand, and CJ Abrams has been sliding around the infield to keep the lineup flexible in the meantime.
None of that mattered once the lights came on. Miami pushed 3 runs across in the fourth and looked like it had control of the finale, but Washington answered with 2 in the fifth and blew it open with a 4-run seventh to close it out 6-3.
Both offenses got to the line score early and often — 11 hits apiece, with an error on each side — in a game that never really settled into a pitcher's duel despite two respectable arms starting it.
The Edwards injury is the one that lingers longest for Miami. A 10-day IL stint at second base thins out a lineup that had been rolling, and it's the kind of subtraction that shows up more in the next 2 weeks than it did in this one box score.
Miami still walks away from Washington having taken 2 of the first 3 in the set and sits with the better overall record of the two clubs. But finales have a way of erasing goodwill fast, and Monday's was Washington's cleanest win of the week.