{"id":117190,"date":"2025-06-20T05:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/117190\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:07:17","slug":"marlins-lose-series-to-phillies-after-pulling-cabrera-too-soon-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/117190\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins lose series to Phillies after pulling Cabrera too soon – Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMIAMI, FL\u2014The Miami Marlins are the only team in baseball that has not had a starting pitcher complete seven innings of work this season. That remained true on Thursday night as manager Clayton McCullough took the ball away from\u00a0Edward Cabrera<\/a> with one out in the top of the seventh inning, only 82 pitches into a scoreless outing. Everything went downhill after the that and the Marlins went on to lose by a final score of 2-1.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCabrera\u00a0went 6 \u2153 innings allowing two hits, walking three and striking out five. He is only the second Marlins starting pitcher this season to record an out in the seventh inning. He joined Max Meyer, who did so on May 9 against the Chicago White Sox.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“I wanted to stay, but the manager makes the decisions,” Cabrera said postgame via an interpreter. “He’s the boss, so you gotta respect that.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter taking Cabrera out, McCullough summoned lefty\u00a0Cade Gibson<\/a> from the bullpen. With\u00a0Alec Bohm<\/a> on first, he surrendered a base hit to Max Kepler<\/a>\u00a0to put runners on the corners, then threw a wild pitch moving\u00a0Kepler to second. Otto Kemp<\/a> was hit by a pitch to load the bases and a Bryson Stott<\/a> fielder’s choice tied the game at one apiece (the run was charged to Cabrera).\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“Cade’s been great for us and with Kepler coming back up there at that particular time in the game, Kepler’s third time coming up, just liked that matchup there to get Cade in the game and have him and a run of hitters to give him the best chance to get us out of that particular inning,” said manager Clayton McCullough. “Thought that Eddie certainly threw the ball terrifically to that point and I liked Cade coming in there with Kepler hitting.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough Gibson had the platoon advantage against Kepler, Cabrera has posted reverse splits in 2025, performing better against lefties than righties in terms of strikeout rate and OPS allowed.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the top of the eighth inning, Kyle Schwarber<\/a> took Anthony Bender deep for his 23rd home run of the season, giving the Phillies a 2-1 lead.\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tCabrera generated 14 whiffs, six with the curveball and five with the slider. He went sinker-heavy, with that pitch averaging 97.5 mph and topping out at 98.9 mph. The changeup, which has been his most-used pitch this season, was only thrown 12% of the time.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“I think he did a good job taking some shots in, which opened up breaking balls away, kept the ball off the barrel as far he was,” said McCullough. “Other than a couple walks on some of the lefties, some side misses, he was competitive in close pitches. Looking at Edward as we continue to go through this season, just another really encouraging step.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCabrera was given some run support in the bottom of the fifth inning thanks to a\u00a0Nick Fortes<\/a> RBI infield single. Going into Thursday’s game, Fortes was sporting a .919 OPS in the month of June. That was all the Marlins were able to get against Phillies starter Cristopher S\u00e1nchez<\/a>, who gave his team eight innings of work, striking out four.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“It’s the same thing as Cabbie\u2014when a guy’s got his good stuff, it makes for tough at-bats,” said Fortes postgame. “You just have to compete and try to move the ball forward.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the loss, the Marlins fall to 29-44 on the season and dropped three out of four to the Phillies.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNext, they will welcome the Atlanta Braves to town for a three-game set. Janson Junk will take the mound for his first start of the season. For the Braves,\u00a0Didier Fuentes, a 20-year-old righty who is the Braves number ten prospect according to MLB Pipeline, will make his Major League debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI, FL\u2014The Miami Marlins are the only team in baseball that has not had a starting pitcher complete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,16506,6381,4914,1816,778,58,4171,4,2145],"class_list":{"0":"post-117190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cade-gibson","10":"tag-clayton-mccullough","11":"tag-edward-cabrera","12":"tag-marlins","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-marlins","15":"tag-miamimarlins","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nick-fortes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114713961876232946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}