MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Sandy Alcantara threw the first complete game of the MLB season in a 93-pitch shutout to lead the Miami Marlins over the Chicago White Sox 10-0 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
It was Alcantara\u2019s second career complete-game shutout with fewer than 100 pitches, known as a \u201cMaddux\u201d in honor of Hall of Famer Greg Maddux. It was his 13th career complete game.<\/p>\n
Liam Hicks homered, had two singles and drove in four runs to increase his Major League-leading count of RBIs to 12. Otto L\u00f3pez also went deep and Graham Pauley doubled twice for the Marlins, who ended the homestand 5-1, their best start since 2020.<\/p>\n
After a dominant outing against Colorado in the season-opener, Alcantara (2-0) extended his scoreless streak to 15 innings. The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner struck out seven, scattered three singles and hit a batter.<\/p>\n
The Marlins struck quickly against White Sox starter Shane Smith with a four-run first. Hicks hit an RBI single and Connor Norby followed with a run-scoring double. They both scored on Owen Caissie\u2019s single.<\/p>\n
Hicks made it 6-0 with a two-run blast in the second. He drove Smith\u2019s slider over the wall in right for his third homer.<\/p>\n
Javier Sanoja\u2019s two-RBI single in the third padded the lead.<\/p>\n
Miami added two runs late when Hicks hit an RBI single in the sixth and L\u00f3pez connected off White Sox reliever Jordan Leasure in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Smith (0-2) lasted three innings, giving up eight runs and seven hits. In his first two starts of the season, Smith has allowed 12 runs and 15 hits over 4 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUp next<\/p>\n
White Sox: RHP Sean Burke (0-1. 6.75) will start Chicago\u2019s home opener against Toronto on Thursday. RHP Dylan Cease (0-0, 1.69) will start for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Marlins: RHP Eury P\u00e9rez (0-0, 3.86) will start the opener of a three-game series at the New York Yankees. LHP Ryan Weathers (0-0, 3.86) will start for the Yankees in their home opener.<\/p>\n
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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Sandy Alcantara threw the first complete game of the MLB season in a 93-pitch shutout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[58652,1769,5,138,49,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-657310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-chicagowhitesox","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-white-sox","16":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116331243419346054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657310","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=657310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}