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Seattle Mariners’ Randy Arozarena, left, after a single Friday night. (Nick Wass\/AP Photo\/Nick Wass)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Friday\u2019s game against the Seattle Mariners was an important barometer for the Washington Nationals, as they attempted to put Wednesday\u2019s disastrous bullpen implosion behind them.<\/p>

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After leading 9-1 two days ago, the San Francisco Giants came back to win 11-10 on a walk-off grand slam. The loss hurt, manager Blake Butera said, perhaps more than any other he had ever been a part of.<\/p>\n

But they were ready, he said, to flush it. And how they played on Friday would not only set the tone for this three-game series but go a long way toward proving this team is different from the rebuilding ones that came before them, the ones who would have let one bad loss blossom into a losing streak.<\/p>\n

Then the rain stopped and the game started. After a two-hour and 11-minute rain delay, the Mariners drove out starter Zack Littell after just 1 2\/3 innings and took game one 10-2.<\/p>\n

Heading into the series, it was the Mariners\u2019 pitching staff that concerned Butera. The rotation holds a 3.76 ERA, the sixth-lowest in Major League Baseball, and Friday\u2019s starter Bryce Miller had a 1.33 ERA in his five games since returning from the injured list.<\/p>\n

Miller lived up to that. He pitched eight innings, allowing just two runs, a pull-side home run from James Wood in the fourth inning into the second deck above the Nationals\u2019 bullpen and a another solo home run from Dylan Crews in the eighth inning. Miller gave up only two other hits, singles to Wood in the first inning and Jorbit Vivas in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just has really good stuff,\u201d Butera said. \u201cHe\u2019s able to locate and command five different pitches and he\u2019s throwing 97 with some good movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turns out, though, the real challenge for the Nationals was the Mariners\u2019 lineup. Zack Littell, after a rough start to his tenure with the team, had pitched at least five innings in his last five outings since May 15, holding opponents to six earned runs during that stretch.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Littell said his stuff felt as good as it had during the last month and that this was just a \u201cweird night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s what\u2019s frustrating about baseball in general, to have the stuff, command to feel good like I did tonight and the result not been there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He made it through a quick 1-2-3 first inning after the lengthy delay. But in the second, he couldn\u2019t put hitters away or make the pitch he needed to get players to chase, and the Mariners took advantage.<\/p>

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Randy Arozarena hit a single to open the inning, then stole second. Luke Raley then walked, and Dominic Canzone tripled to drive in Arozarena and Raley.<\/p>\n

Littell finally made an out when Miles Mastrobuoni hit a deep fly ball to right field, but it came at the expense of another run as Canzone was able to score on the sacrifice fly. Littell then gave up another hit to Johnny Perada and a two-run homer to Colt Emerson to give the Mariners a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Littell got one more out before Butera made the decision to take him out. They try not to let pitchers thrown more than 35 pitches in an inning for safety reasons, and Littell was already at 43.<\/p>\n

It was his shortest outing of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I threw the ball fine,\u201d Littell said. \u201cThey had a really good plan. They executed it really well. They forced me deeper into counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riley Cornelio, a starter in the minor leagues, was able to provide 4 1\/3 innings of relief. He allowed three runs, all in the fifth.<\/p>\n

The Nationals made no roster moves on Friday, instead deciding to keep their bullpen intact, even the ones who were part of Wednesday\u2019s disaster. That included Paxton Schultz, who gave up five runs in Wednesday\u2019s loss. He made it through the seventh, allowing two hits but no runs, but gave up a solo home run in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n

In the ninth, Gus Varland allowed a solo homer to Naylor as the Mariners completed their 10-2 blowout.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the rebound they were hoping for. But this team, Wood said, still believes in themselves and can look at the things they\u2019ve already accomplished this season as proof they can be successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you can just go back to even games we\u2019ve won, even games we\u2019ve lost, and just knowing how close we are in most of the games we play,\u201d Wood said. \u201cI have no doubt that we\u2019ll be able to bounce back from this.\u201d<\/p>

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Washington vowed to turn the page after Wednesday’s loss. 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