Marco Gonzales Hurls Seattle Over Angels; Trea Turner's Slam, 8 RBI Powers Nationals' Comeback Win

Players of the Day for Thursday, July 5, 2018

American League

Gonzales leads Mariners

Marco Gonzales stopped the visiting LA Angels on five hits and one run over six innings, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 4-1 win in the finale of their three game series. The teams had split the first two games.

Gonzales (9-5) walked two and struck out seven, throwing 102 pitches. A trio of relievers worked the seventh, eighth and ninth, the last inning by closer Edwin Diaz, who struck out the side for his major league-leading 34th save. Gonzales is 6-2 over his last nine starts.

With Houston escaping with a 4-3 win over the White Sox, Seattle remained 1 1/2 games behind the Astros in the AL West division.

Winners of nine of their last 10, the Mariners remain home to host the Colorado Rockies in a three-game series beginning Friday at 7:10 pm PDT.

National League

Blowing a 9-0 lead, the Miami Marlins managed to remain the worst team in the National League, dropping a 14-12 decision to the home-standing Washington Nationals.

The Marlins took the huge lead into the bottom of the fourth inning, but that's when Trey Turner started the Washington comeback, slugging a solo homer to put the Nationals on the board.

Turner: 2 HR, GS, 8 RBI

In the fifth, the Nats scored four more. Again, it was Turner sparking the rally. He grounded into a fielder's choice with the bases loaded, plating Daniel Murphy, and later scored on Juan Soto's two-run double.

Turner came to the plate with the bases full again in the seventh, this time blasting his second homer of the game, a grand slam that gave Washington a 10-9 lead.

In the eighth, Turner singled home two more runs for a 13-9 advantage. Soto singled home Brian Goodwin to finish Washington's scoring.

Turner finished with eight RBI, his 10th and 11th home runs and three runs, helping the Nationals break a five-game losing skid. The Nationals got back to .500, at 43-43, picking up 1/2 game on the idle Braves and Phillies. Atlanta leads the NL East, with Philadelphia one back. Washington is six games out, looking to take down the Marlins in game two of their four-game series, Friday at 7:05 pm EDT.