As the at-bat wore on, as Nathaniel Lowe fouled off pitch after pitch from Anthony Bender, the tension Friday night at LoanDepot Park ratcheted up. Lowe wasn’t even supposed to be in this position — hitting with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning with his team trailing by two runs.

Nathaniel Lowe hit a bases-clearing, go-ahead double in the eighth inning, James Wood added a 400-foot homer in the ninth and the Washington Nationals scored seven unanswered runs in a 7-4 victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday night.