Phils cough up another game to Marlins
MIAMI >> The Marlins used the element of surprise Sunday to beat the Phillies. They threw strikes. Four Miami pitchers threw a combined fourhitter and allowed only one walk to win, 3-2.
The Phillies couldn’t have seen that coming, since the Marlins allowed 10 walks in each of the first two games in the series.
“We had a meeting before the game,” Miami managing Don Mattingly said, “and said, ‘Let’s throw the ball over the plate. It’s got to start there. You can’t defend the walk. Let’s get it in the strike zone, and don’t be afraid if they hit it. Every one is not going to be a home run.’”
Rhys Hoskins hit the Phillies’ lone homer — his 25th. It came after César Hernandez settled for a single on a hit off the wall because he was slow out of the batter’s box.
“Totally unacceptable,” Phils manager Gabe Kapler said.
Hoskins’ homer made Hernandez’s lack of hustle inconsequential on the scoreboard. Those were the only runs allowed by Elieser Hernandez (3-5), who went six innings. He walked none. “That’s the goal,” Hernandez said. “That’s what we work for.”
Aaron Nola (12-4) was almost as good. He faced the minimum until the sixth, when he allowed four con- secutive batters to reach as the Marlins erased a 2-0 deficit and scored all of their runs.
Jon Berti hit an RBI sin- gle, and Starlin Castro’s two-run double put Miami ahead 3-2. Of Castro’s 67 RBIs in 2019, 24 have come this month.
Ryne Stanek pitched around a leadoff walk in the ninth for his first career save. Stanek said it didn’t seem to take long for him to enter the game because both starters were so good.
“Super efficient,” Stanek said. “I didn’t realize how fast the game was moving until I looked up and it was the fifth inning and they both had like 55 pitches.”
Miami won in 2 hours, 38 minutes, a big contrast to the first two games of the series, which each lasted more than 3½ hours. New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Kansas City Detroit Houston A’s Texas Los Angeles Seattle
Sunday’s games
Baltimore 8, Tampa Bay 3 Kansas City 9, Cleveland 8, 10 innings Minnesota 7, Detroit 4 Chicago White Sox 2, Texas 0 Houston 11, L.A. Angels 2 Seattle 3, Toronto 1 Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami 85 74 64 63 56 47 55 68 70 75 .644 _ .574 9 1⁄2 .485 21 .474 22 1⁄2 .427 28 1⁄2 a-walked for Hernandez in the 6th; bstruck out for Haseley in the 8th; c-flied out for Nola in the 8th; d-singled for Garcia in the 8th.
Philadelphia 2, Miami 2; Holaday (5), Castro (21); Hoskins (25), off Hernandez; Hoskins 2 (73), Berti (15), Castro 2 (67); Castro (2), Kingery (4);
Philadelphia 0, Miami 1 (Ramirez); Philadelphia 0 for 0, Miami 2 for 4; Dean; Philadelphia 1 (Segura, Hernandez, Hoskins);
LOB: RISP: GIDP:
Nola, L, 12-4 Hughes Alvarez
HR: RBIs: CS: Runners left in scoring position: DP:
7 1⁄3 2⁄3
Hernandez, W, 6 Brigham, H, 2 1 Garcia, H, 3 1 Stanek, S, 1-3 1
5 0 1
3 1 0 0
R H BIBBSO
0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 0 0
2 0 0 0
3 0 0
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2B:
7 1 2
5 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
97 3.53 4 9.64 16 2.96
82 4.97 15 5.61 11 2.54 15 8.59 3 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 1
Avg
.292 .285 .300 .265 .241 .204 .276 .000
— .225 .115 .333