MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Griffin Conine and Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez homered and Janson Junk worked six solid inning as the Miami Marlins extended their winning streak to four games with an 8-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Junk (6-7) allowed two runs, one earned, on four hits and a walk in six innings. Tyler Zuber, Calvin Faucher and Victor Vodnik each pitched a scoreless inning of relief.<\/p>\n
Conine reached base five times. He doubled leading off the third against Carmen Mlodzinski (6-5) with the game tied at 1. Hern\u00e1ndez followed with a walk before Agust\u00edn Ram\u00edrez doubled for a 2-1 lead one out later. That chased Mlodzinski, who was charged with four runs on five hits.<\/p>\n
Evan Sisk walked pinch-hitter Javier Sanoja to load the bases and hit Leo Jim\u00e9nez with a pitch before walking Joe Mack to force in two more runs. Xavier Edwards hit a sacrifice fly for a 5-1 lead. Sisk got two outs and yielded a run.<\/p>\n
\n Conine hit his 13th homer off<\/a> former Marlins reliever Lake Bachar for a 6-2 lead in the fourth. Bachar, acquired at the trade deadline, walked Conine before Hern\u00e1ndez’s 17th homer<\/a> for a six-run advantage in the sixth. The right-hander surrendered three runs on three hits in three innings.<\/p>\n Nick Gonzalez singled and scored on a two-out throwing error by shortstop Otto Lopez to give Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead in the second.<\/p>\n Edwards’ infield hit with two outs and the bases loaded tied it 1-all in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n Miami (62-59) is 38-24 at home. It is the team’s best 62-game run at home since 2003, when it won its second World Series. The Marlins trail the Phillies and Diamondbacks by 1 1\/2 games for the final NL wild card.<\/p>\n Valdez added a sacrifice fly in the fourth for Pittsburgh, who have gone 1-7 since the trade deadline.<\/p>\n Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft (11-5, 4.08) starts Thursday against RHP Tyler Phillips (3-5, 3.47) as the Marlins go for the series sweep.<\/p>\n See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Griffin Conine and Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez homered and Janson Junk worked six solid inning as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,1111,981,12671,17906,15601,4289,18789,4,20825,1753,9500,9501,10,21808,776,64,4297,9496,9497,22871,36947,12436,16986,5046,6878],"class_list":["post-777345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-calvin-faucher","tag-carmen-mlodzinski","tag-evan-sisk","tag-heriberto-hernandez","tag-janson-junk","tag-javier-sanoja","tag-joe-mack","tag-mlb","tag-nick-gonzalez","tag-otto-lopez","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pirates","tag-pirates-marlins-score","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","tag-tyler-phillips","tag-tyler-zuber","tag-victor-vodnik","tag-xavier-edwards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777345","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=777345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}