Edward Cabrera leads Miami Marlins over Washington Nationals

Edward Cabrera needed a bounceback start like this. Just a week earlier, the Miami Marlins’ right-handed pitcher cruised through three innings before he “lost his rhythm” in a start against the Arizona Diamondbacks and never recovered. It was another frustrating outing during a start to the season that has had its share of frustrating outings.

On Wednesday, in the Marlins’ 4-3 win over the Washington Nationals, there were no such frustrations. Cabrera showed his high-end talent and put together one of his best performances of the season.

His final line: Two runs allowed over five innings while striking out six and not issuing a walk. Both runs he gave up came on a second-inning home run by Corey Dickerson. After that, Cabrera retired 11 of the final 13 batters he faced before Marlins manager Skip Schumaker took the starter out of the game despite having only thrown 79 pitches.

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Cabrera’s start on Wednesday marked the first time in his MLB career that he did not allow a walk while pitching at least five innings. In his first eight starts this season, Cabrera allowed 30 walks over 35 1/3 innings.

The Marlins (22-21), who improved to 14-1 in one-run games this season, scored their runs on a Yuli Gurriel sacrifice fly in the second inning, a Jorge Soler two-run home run in the fourth and a Bryan De La Cruz RBI double in the sixth.

Miami’s bullpen followed up Cabrera’s outing by holding the Nationals (18-25) to just one run over the final four innings.

500 hits for Luis Arraez

Luis Arraez’s double in the eighth inning was the 500th hit of his MLB career.

The infielder hit the milestone in just his 428th career game.

He is only the seventh active player to reach 500 career hits within their first 428 games. The others: Bo Bichette (407), Mookie Betts (408), Mike Trout (423), Jose Altuve, Whit Merrifield (426) and Jose Abreu (428).

Wednesday was Arraez’s 16th multi-hit game of the season.