Miami 7 at Washington 1 - Recap

WASHINGTON -- Hot-hitting Marcell Ozuna had three hits, drove in two runs and scored twice as the Miami Marlins, despite an injury to starting pitcher Kendry Flores, defeated the Washington Nationals 7-1 on Saturday in the second game of a day-night doubleheader.

Ozuna has now hit in his last 14 games as he tripled and scored in the first, had a two-run double in the fifth and singled in the ninth to help split the twinbill. He was hitting .218 before embarking on the longest active streak in the league.

Martin Prado added three hits for the Marlins (19-17), who are 11-7 on the road.

Jose Urena (1-0) picked up his second career win as he went three innings out of the bullpen and allowed one run on two hits.

The loser was Washington's Tanner Roark (2-3), whose ERA jumped from 2.03 to 3.10 as he threw 114 pitches in just five innings in his team's most lopsided loss of the season.

In the first game, Stephen Strasburg remained unbeaten and Michael A. Taylor had two hits, two walks and scored twice as the Nationals beat the Marlins 6-4.

Strasburg (6-0), who agreed to a seven-year contract extension on Tuesday, allowed five hits and three runs with seven strikeouts in six innings though his ERA rose to 2.95. Washington relievers Felipe Rivero, Shawn Kelley and Jonathan Papelbon, who got his 11th save, combined to get the last nine outs.

The Nationals added an insurance run in the eighth to make it 6-4 as Matt den Dekker reached on an error, went to third on a double by Taylor and scored on error by Ozuna.

Wilson Ramos had hit a solo homer to lead off the sixth to give Washington a 5-3 lead. The homer stood after an umpire crew chief review of the call, as a fan caught the ball just over the wall in left-center.

The Marlins had pulled to within 5-4 in the seventh on an RBI single by Martin Prado.

Marlins starter Justin Nicolino (2-1) walked the first three batters in the first and all three scored. Murphy and Ryan Zimmerman had sacrifice flies and Jayson Werth had an RBI single to make it 3-1.

Nicolino, in his fourth start of the year, allowed four runs in 4 2/3 innings before Bryan Morris came on in the fifth and retired Werth on a grounder with the bases loaded.

In the first game, Miguel Rojas had an RBI single and Derek Dietrich had a run-scoring double in the second inning as the Marlins took a 2-0 lead.

Local product Justin Bour, from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., crushed a solo homer to center in the third to make it 3-0. It was the fourth homer in the last 10 games at Nationals Park for Bour.

The Nationals trimmed the margin to 3-1 in the fourth as Stephen Drew had a sacrifice fly off reliever Urena.

Ozuna had a two-run, two-out single with the bases loaded in the fifth and J.T. Realmuto followed with another two-run single as the Marlins led 7-1 against Roark.

Flores made his first major league start of the season and second of his career. He was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the fourth with a right shoulder strain and is listed as day-to-day after allowing one hit and three walks in three scoreless innings.

Flores was called up from Triple-New Orleans, where he 1-1 with an ERA of 2.59 in six starts. He was replaced in the fourth by Urena, who had an ERA of 6.97 in his first seven appearances.

Roark, the Washington starter, had not allowed an earned run in four of his first seven starts this season. But he gave up seven runs in five innings and Sammy Solis came on in the sixth.

NOTES: The Washington Nationals announced Saturday that the team picked up the option on general manager Mike Rizzo's contract, binding him to the club through the 2018 campaign. "We are pleased with the job Mike has done over the past nine years," owner Ted Lerner said in a statement. "He and the baseball operations team have worked tirelessly to help build this organization into one of Major League Baseball's elite clubs. We are fortunate to have him." The Nationals faced a deadline of June 15 per picking up the option. "I am honored by the Lerner family's continued faith and confidence in me and am thrilled to be remaining with the Washington Nationals organization," Rizzo said in a statement. "While I am proud of the work we have accomplished, we still must achieve the ultimate goal of bringing a World Series championship back to Washington." During Rizzo's tenure, the Nationals have won the National League East title in 2012 and 2014. Rizzo joined the organization in 2007 and became general manager in 2010. ... Washington RF Bryce Harper dropped the appeal of his one-game suspension and sat out the second game of the day-night doubleheader Saturday against the Marlins. Harper was ejected in the ninth inning of the Nationals' game on Monday by home plate umpire Brian Knight after teammate Danny Espinosa struck out. The next batter, Clint Robinson, hit a walk-off homer and Harper rushed on the field with his teammates to celebrate and hollered an expletive to Knight that was caught by television cameras. ... OF Chris Heisey, with three pinch-homers this year, started in right field in the second game in place of Harper. The National League MVP last year, Harper is hitting .273 with 11 homers, 29 RBIs and an on-base average of .461. Earlier in the day, OF Matt den Dekker was brought up from Triple-A Syracuse to serve as the 26th man for the Nationals. For the second game, den Dekker started in left field. ... Marlins C Jeff Mathis drove in his first run of the season with an RBI single in the sixth inning of the first game on Saturday. He was hitting .179 in 28 at-bats. ... Washington RHP Stephen Strasburg, who won the first game Saturday, is the first Montreal/Washington starting pitcher to begin the year 6-0 since RHP Pedro Martinez was 8-0 to start the 1997 season.