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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 5, Florida 3
When: 7:10 PM ET, Thursday, April 7, 2011
Where: Sun Life Stadium, Miami, Florida
Temperature: 81°
Umpires: Home - Jeff Nelson, 1B - D.J. Reyburn, 2B - Bill Welke, 3B - Tim Tschida
Attendance: 10696

Adam LaRoche belted a two-run homer in the 11th inning to lift the Washington Nationals to a 5-3 victory over the Florida Marlins on Thursday in the finale of their three-game series in Miami.

LaRoche's first home run off Edward Mujica (1-1) made a winner of reliever Todd Coffey (1-0), who worked a perfect 10th inning and struck out one. Sean Burnett worked around a hit in the 11th for his second save of the season.

Jayson Werth hit his first home run as a member of the Nationals - a solo shot off Marlins starter Josh Johnson in the fourth inning. Johnson allowed three runs — two earned — on four hits over six innings. He struck out six.

Nationals starter John Lannan allowed three runs on seven hits in five-plus innings. Lannan left with a 3-2 lead after allowing back-to-back hits to start the sixth, but the tying run scored on Emilio Bonifacio's groundout later in the inning.

Ian Desmond and Ryan Zimmerman had two hits apiece for the Nationals.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Washington   Florida
John Lannan Player Josh Johnson
No Decision W/L No Decision
5.0 IP 6.0
4 Strikeouts 6
7 Hits 4
5.40 ERA 1.50
Hitting
Washington   Florida
Ian Desmond Player Wes Helms
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
.400 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Washington 8 2 14 .216 10 6 5 3 2 2
Florida 9 0 11 .214 17 12 3 2 0 2