Behind Edward Cabrera, Miami Marlins salvage finale towards Phillies to keep away from sweep

PHILADELPHIA

To paraphrase The Most Interesting Man within the World from the old Dos Equis beer commercials: The Miami Marlins hardly ever win baseball video games this season, however once they do, they’re most likely taking part in a collection finale.

That was the case once more on Thursday, when the Marlins beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 at Citizens Bank Park to keep away from a three-game sweep. Miami misplaced the primary two video games of the collection 4-1 on Tuesday and 4-3 on Wednesday.

The Marlins (50-61) are actually 18-18 this season in collection finales. This contains wins in 4 of their previous 5 collection finales — the one wins they’ve of their previous 13 video games (July 28 on the Cincinnati Reds, Aug. 3 at house towards the Reds, Sunday on the Chicago Cubs and Thursday towards the Phillies).

On Thursday, Edward Cabrera led the best way with 5 2/3 shutout innings earlier than the group of Steven Okert, Dylan Floro and Tanner Scott tossed the ultimate 3 1/3 innings.

Scott recorded his sixteenth save of the season after throwing the ultimate 1 1/3 innings though it was a wild journey to these 4 outs.

He entered the sport with two on and two outs within the eighth inning and struck out J.T. Realmuto on 5 pitches to strand these two runners.

But within the ninth, the Phillies loaded the bases with no outs on a Nick Castellanos full-count single, Bryson Stott single towards the shift after a six-pitch at-bat and Jean segura full-count stroll. After a mound assembly from pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr., Scott struck out pinch-hitter Edmundo Sosa and left fielder Matt Vierling earlier than getting heart fielder Brandon Marsh to floor out to strand the runners and full the shutout.

It backed up Cabrera’s newest sturdy outing in his return to the lively roster.

In two begins since coming back from a two-and-a-half-month lengthy injured record stint, Cabrera has thrown 10 2/3 shutout innings with 14 strikeouts whereas giving up simply three hits and strolling 5.

He labored round a pair of baserunners every of the primary two innings and a excessive pitch depend (43 pitches after two innings) earlier than settling in for the remainder of his begin Thursday. He threw 91 whole pitches.

Miami opened scoring within the second inning when Joey Wendle’s two-out single scored Lewin Diaz, who had reached on a fielding error and moved to 3rd on a Luke Williams popup single that fell on the infield when Phillies second baseman Jean Segura misplaced monitor of the ball within the air.

The Marlins used one other two-out rally within the sixth to increase their lead over the Phillies. Nick Fortes and Charles Leblanc hit back-to-back singles to place runners on the corners for Diaz. Leblanc then stole second base. Fortes scored and Leblanc moved to 3rd on a wild pitch earlier than Diaz drove in Leblanc with a double to right-center subject.