{"id":724555,"date":"2026-06-13T04:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724555\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:06:34","slug":"sandy-alcantara-reaches-1000-career-strikeouts-as-marlins-reach-500-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724555\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Alcantara reaches 1,000 career strikeouts as Marlins reach .500 – Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe month of June continues to bring incredible joy to Miami Marlins fans. With a 8-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday, the Marlins are winners of nine out of their last 10 games since the calendar flipped. This latest victory also featured a major milestone for\u00a0Sandy Alcantara<\/a>, who surpassed\u00a01,000 strikeouts in his MLB career.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEntering his start, Alcantara was five strikeouts away from 1,000. In the bottom of the fourth inning, he struck out Pirates rookie\u00a0Tyler Callihan<\/a> looking with his sweeper. The right-hander finished his night going eight innings, allowing three runs on five hits (two home runs) with one walk and seven strikeouts.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlcantara was one of four players acquired by the Marlins in the 2017 trade that sent Marcell Ozuna to the St. Louis Cardinals. He won the NL\u00a0Cy Young Award in unanimous fashion in 2022 and has made it to two All-Star games. There has been some adversity, including Tommy John surgery in October 2023 and an extended slump to begin the 2025 season, but Alcantara has since gotten back to be an extremely valuable workhorse for the Fish.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlcantara’s first 10 strikeouts were recorded as a member of the Cardinals. His Marlins total of 991 trails only\u00a0Ricky Nolasco<\/a>\u00a0(1,001). Expect Alcantara to take over that franchise record by the end of this month.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAgainst a Pittsburgh team missing starting shortstop Konnor Griffin and center fielder Oneil Cruz due to injuries, Alcantara generated 11 total whiffs, with four of those coming on his sinker. Of his seven strikeouts, three of them came on his nasty changeup. He was his usual efficient self, averaging 12.8 pitches per inning.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlcantara has now tossed at least eight innings in 33 starts with Miami, tied with Dontrelle Willis<\/a> for the most such outings by a starter in franchise history.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“We’ve seen three in a row where he’s put together some high-end performances, but really, all year long, the innings he’s been able to accumulate and what that does every fifth\/sixth day,” McCullough said. “Going into tomorrow which is a bullpen game, for him to give us eight innings and to get another win behind him, is great. He is in a good groove right now.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAlcantara has completed seven innings of more in three straight starts, surrendering three or less runs in all of them. His ERA in June is 2.86.\u00a0Through 15 starts this season, he has a 4.25 ERA, 4.14 FIP, 6.57 K\/9 and 2.13 BB\/9 while leading Major League Baseball with 97 \u2153 innings pitched.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the bottom of the third inning, Alcantara surrendered an RBI single to Jared Triolo<\/a>, giving the Pirates a 1-0 lead. The Marlins tied and took the lead in the top of the fifth inning, as Otto Lopez<\/a> had an RBI groundout and Kyle Stowers<\/a> drove in Liam Hicks<\/a> on an RBI single.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only downside to Alcantara’s night were the two home runs he allowed\u2014one in the top of the fifth inning to\u00a0Endy Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, tying the game at two, and another in the eighth inning to\u00a0Brandon Lowe<\/a>, making it an 8-3 game.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMiami’s offense exploded in the top of the seventh inning, rallying for four runs. It all started with a sacrifice fly from Xavier Edwards<\/a>, bringing Liam Hicks home. Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>\u00a0added an RBI single and Owen Caissie<\/a> capped off the inning with a two-run RBI double.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHicks sealed the deal in the top of the eighth inning, hitting his team-leading 13th home run of the season off the right field foul pole. Now at 50 RBI this season, Hicks has become one of six players in baseball with 50 or more RBI this season.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“Feel like the lineup has lengthened out now and we are able to mount innings from different parts of the lineup and that’s a good sign,” McCullough said.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Marlins’ winning percentage is now back at .500 for the first time since April 24, when they had a 13-13 record.\u00a0They also have baseball’s longest winning streak and are just one game out of the third National League Wild Card spot.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLake Bachar<\/a> will open what will be a bullpen game on Saturday at 4:05 pm. Fish On First’s Nate Karzmer will have boots on ground in Pittsburgh as the Marlins aim for their fourth straight series win.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The month of June continues to bring incredible joy to Miami Marlins fans. With a 8-3 win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[35744,5,1816,778,58,4171,4,64,3480],"class_list":["post-724555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-35744","tag-baseball","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sandy-alcantara"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116740828915725457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724555","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=724555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}