{"id":124311,"date":"2025-06-23T04:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/124311\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T04:11:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:11:39","slug":"stowers-ends-31-game-homer-drought-alcantara-solid-over-6-innings-to-help-marlins-beat-braves-5-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/124311\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowers ends 31-game homer drought, Alc\u00e1ntara solid over 6 innings to help Marlins beat Braves 5-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Kyle Stowers ended a 31-game home run drought, Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara pitched six strong innings and the Miami Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves 5-3 on Sunday in the rubber game of their three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Otto L\u00f3pez had two hits and drove in two runs, and Xavier Edwards singled twice, doubled and had an RBI for the Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Alc\u00e1ntara (4-8) allowed three runs and six hits, walked two and struck out four. The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner has completed six innings in three of his last four starts.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Bender tossed 1 2\/3 scoreless innings in relief of Alc\u00e1ntara, Calvin Faucher got the last two outs in the eighth and Ronny Henriquez pitched the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez and Dane Myers hit run-scoring singles off Braves starter Bryce Elder in the fifth to put the Marlins ahead 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Elder (2-4) allowed five runs and 10 hits in 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves struck quickly against Alc\u00e1ntara on Austin Riley\u2019s RBI single in the first.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But Stowers tied it at 1 with a solo homer in the second. It was Stowers\u2019 11th homer of the season and first since he went deep twice against the Chicago Cubs on May 14.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta retook the lead on Drake Baldwin\u2019s run-scoring single in the third before Miami tied it again when L\u00f3pez hit an RBI single in the bottom half.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Edwards hit a run-scoring single in the sixth to give the Marlins another two-run lead after the Braves narrowed it on an RBI fielder\u2019s choice by Alex Verdugo in the top half.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins finished 6-4 in a 10-game stretch against NL East opponents. They are 12-12 against the division this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>RHP Spencer Schwellenbach (5-4, 3.26) will start the opener of the Braves\u2019 four-game series at the New York Mets on Monday. The Marlins begin a three-game series at San Francisco on Tuesday with RHP Cal Quantrill (3-7, 5.68) scheduled to start the opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Kyle Stowers ended a 31-game home run drought, Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara pitched six strong innings and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[6054,1413,1114,46,662,5,4720,3995,1111,24,1951,5931,1388,1816,778,58,4171,4,61,1753,7729,378,3480,2099,659,6878],"class_list":{"0":"post-124311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-alcantara","9":"tag-alex-verdugo","10":"tag-anthony-bender","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-austin-riley","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-bryce-elder","15":"tag-cal-quantrill","16":"tag-calvin-faucher","17":"tag-chicago-cubs","18":"tag-dane-myers","19":"tag-drake-baldwin","20":"tag-kyle-stowers","21":"tag-marlins","22":"tag-miami","23":"tag-miami-marlins","24":"tag-miamimarlins","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-new-york-mets","27":"tag-otto-lopez","28":"tag-ronny-henriquez","29":"tag-san-francisco","30":"tag-sandy-alcantara","31":"tag-scoreless-innings","32":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","33":"tag-xavier-edwards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114730728572585727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124311","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=124311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}