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Strasburg stars for Nationals

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Stephen Strasburg pitched seven scoreless innings for his 14th win, Trea Turner had three RBIs and Daniel Murphy homered as the Washington Nationals beat the Cleveland Indians 4-1 on Wednesday.

Strasburg (14-1) bounced back from his only loss of the season to hold the American League Centrallea­ding Indians to three hits. The right-hander also had seven strikeouts and two walks in the victory.

Cleveland starter Carlos Carrasco (7-4) surrendere­d three runs on as many hits in six innings to take the loss. Meanwhile, Giancarlo Stanton drilled a two-run homer and Don Kelly hit two triples to lead Miami over Philadelph­ia 11-1.

The Marlins took two out of three games from the Phillies.

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