MIAMI -- Kyle Stowers, Xavier Edwards and Jakob Marsee each went deep as the Marlins scored eight unanswered runs, then held off a ninth-inning rally in an 8-7 victory over the Nationals on Saturday at loanDepot park.
With the game tied at 4 in the eighth, Stowers led off the inning with a single for his second three-hit performance of the season. Connor Norby walked, and both runners advanced a base on a wild pitch. With the infield drawn in, Marsee lined lefty reliever Mitchell Parker’s slider over the right-field wall for a go-ahead three-run homer.
The struggling Marsee’s only other long ball this season came on April 21.
Stowers got Miami’s rally started in the fourth by cutting a 4-0 deficit in half with his first homer of the season. Stowers, who didn’t make his 2026 debut until April 19 due to a right hamstring strain, pulled righty Zack Littell’s splitter for a two-run shot.
Stowers entered Saturday with just three extra-base hits and one RBI through his first 17 games; he also doubled in the first inning.
Miami scratched across another run in the sixth to pull within one. Norby reached on shortstop CJ Abrams’ throwing error, then stole both second and third. After Marsee walked to put runners on the corners, Owen Caissie lifted a sacrifice fly to right.
Edwards knotted the game, 4-4, in the seventh with a two-out solo homer. The switch-hitting Edwards, who had never gone deep as a righty in his Major League career until Friday night, produced an encore by crushing Parker’s slider over the left-center wall a career-high 422 feet.
With the long ball, Edwards set a single-season career high for homers (four) just 40 games in.