{"id":678612,"date":"2026-04-18T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:27:26","slug":"marlins-kyle-stowers-to-make-season-debut-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678612\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins\u2019 Kyle Stowers to make season debut Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A big boost to the Miami Marlins\u2019 lineup will come Sunday at loanDepot park in the series finale against the Milwaukee Brewers at 1:40 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Manager Clayton McCullough told reporters prior to first pitch Saturday that outfielder Kyle Stowers will return and make his season debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stowers, who strained his right hamstring in Spring Training, made five rehab appearances with Triple-A Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was spotted in the clubhouse at loanDepot park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe got back-to-back nine-inning games,\u201d McCullough said. \u201cI think he came out of that feeling like he\u2019s in a really good spot physically. Also, I think mentally now he feels like, \u2018OK, I\u2019m kind of over this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stowers was Miami\u2019s lone All-Star in 2025, finishing the season with a .288 average, 25 home runs (team best) and 73 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He became the first Marlins outfielder to be named a National League All-Star since Giancarlo Stanton and Marcell Ozuna in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A strained left oblique sidelined Stowers for the final stretch of the season, when the Marlins finished 79\u201383.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGetting Kyle back in the lineup will really be a nice boost to help lengthen some things out,\u201d McCullough said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Marlins will look to snap a three-game losing streak Saturday with their ace Sandy Alcantara on the mound, with a 4:10 p.m. ET first pitch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 A big boost to the Miami Marlins\u2019 lineup will come Sunday at loanDepot park in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-678612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116427596969886935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678612","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=678612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}