Nick Fortes hit an early two-run home run and Sandy Alcantara pitched six shutout innings to help the Miami Marlins edge the host Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes and Oneil Cruz each hit a solo home run in the eighth inning to give the Pirates a chance at a late comeback.<\/p>\n
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However, Marlins closer Calvin Faucher worked out of trouble in the ninth to pick up his fifth save and give the Marlins their second win in their past nine games.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh\u2019s season-high four-game winning streak ended as Miami leveled the three-game series at one win apiece.<\/p>\n
Alcantara (3-7) gave up three hits and walked one while striking out six on 85 pitches, ending a nine-start stretch in which he went 0-7. He lowered his ERA to 7.14.<\/p>\n
Alcantara retired 10 consecutive batters from the last out of the third through the end of the sixth. Anthony Bender extended that streak to 13 by working a perfect seventh.<\/p>\n
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Hayes snapped it while leading off the eighth, belting his second homer of the season to left-center off reliever Ronny Henriquez, cutting Miami\u2019s lead to 3-1. Two batters later, Cruz hit his 13th home run of the season to right-center. Henriquez then induced Andrew McCutchen to fly out to center and struck out Bryan Reynolds to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Faucher hit Spencer Horwitz with his first pitch to start the ninth, and Nick Gonzales followed with a single. Pinch runner Jared Triolo and Gonzales moved to third and second on a groundout by Adam Frazier, but Faucher retired Henry Davis on a popup to short right field and struck out Hayes to end the game.<\/p>\n
Fortes hit his second home run of the season in the third inning off Pirates starter Mitch Keller (1-9), sneaking it just inside the left field foul pole to give the Marlins a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Otto Lopez singled to lead off the fourth and then came around to score on a single by Eric Wagaman to make it 3-0. Wagaman and teammate Dane Myers each had two hits.<\/p>\n
Keller gave up three runs on eight hits, struck out four and did not issue a walk in six innings.<\/p>\n
Before the game, the Marlins recalled right-handed pitcher Lake Bachar from Triple-A Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Fortes hit an early two-run home run and Sandy Alcantara pitched six shutout innings to help the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[8007,1151,1114,5,5343,1111,1951,6468,1392,8638,7884,5342,5973,1816,778,58,4171,4163,4,2145,10608,1330,1753,64,7729,3480,950],"class_list":{"0":"post-95476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-adam-frazier","9":"tag-andrew-mccutchen","10":"tag-anthony-bender","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-bryan-reynolds","13":"tag-calvin-faucher","14":"tag-dane-myers","15":"tag-eighth-inning","16":"tag-eric-wagaman","17":"tag-henry-davis","18":"tag-jared-triolo","19":"tag-kebryan-hayes","20":"tag-lake-bachar","21":"tag-marlins","22":"tag-miami","23":"tag-miami-marlins","24":"tag-miamimarlins","25":"tag-mitch-keller","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-nick-fortes","28":"tag-nick-gonzales","29":"tag-oneil-cruz","30":"tag-otto-lopez","31":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","32":"tag-ronny-henriquez","33":"tag-sandy-alcantara","34":"tag-spencer-horwitz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114663952581736421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95476","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=95476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}