WASHINGTON -- The Marlins' six-game winning streak ended with Friday night’s 12-10 loss to the Nationals, but their recent power surge did not.

Brian Anderson, Curtis Granderson and Jorge Alfaro went deep to extend the Marlins’ home run streak to seven games, their longest stretch since a nine-game streak in July 2017.

Last in the Majors with 35 home runs, the Marlins have hit 11 in their past seven games after managing just 12 over their previous 27.

“It’s hard to explain for us,” manager Don Mattingly said of the streak, which included three games at Detroit’s spacious Comerica Park. “We’re not really a home run club, but we have hit some and Detroit’s not a small ballpark.

"[We're] getting a little power, which is nice. But for the most part, it seems we’ve been getting bigger hits, and that’s really what’s kind of spurred the way we’ve played recently. Even though it hasn’t [always] been a huge output offensively like last night, we have been able to get that key hit and with it, our pitching’s been pretty good.”

Those big hits have included 12 doubles over the past seven games, including two on Friday.

Anderson’s home run was his fifth of the season and third in his past four games.

“I think [it's] a little more straight,” Mattingly said, of the right-handed Anderson’s swing. “That’s the biggest thing. Straight lines with the stride. When he’s diving out there, he ends up pushing balls into right field and not really being able to get the barrel where he wants to, at the right angle. But it seems like he’s cleaned that up, and even really before he started hitting these homers, he was starting to have the at-bats you like.”

Despite their recent success at the plate, there’s one thing the Marlins haven’t accomplished: a triple. Entering Saturday, the Marlins and Indians are the only two teams in baseball without one. The 48 games are by far the longest drought to open a season in club history. The Royals lead the Majors with 22 triples, but only seven teams have reached double figures.

“A little bit,” Mattingly said, when asked if the triples drought was strange. “And our ballpark, too. It’s pretty big in the gaps, so you would think we would have had one somewhere in there. I’m sure it’ll change.

“Chad [Wallach] would have had one the other day if he could run at all,” Mattingly joked about a ball Wallach hit to right-center in Detroit that got stuck under the [outfield] wall. “It hits and sticks right there. You’ve got to go all the way to the wall and get it.”

Granderson came close against the Cubs in early May, but the play was ruled a double and an error.