Braves shut out Marlins again — scoreless streak hits 20 innings
ATLANTA
The Marlins had no answers for Braves starting pitcher Max Fried on Tuesday at Truist Park.
Fried threw just 92 pitches to complete a three-hit shutout as the Braves earned a series win with a 5-0 victory. The Game 3 series finale was Wednesday night.
Miami (6-19) lost the opener 3-0 on Monday, so the Marlins’ scoreless streak reached 20 innings, since the seventh inning of Sunday’s 6-3 win against the Chicago Cubs.
Miami, last in the NL East, lost for the seventh time in 10 games and fell 111⁄2 games behind firstplace Atlanta.
Fried struck out six and did not allow a walk.
“He had everything working,” Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said. “[He had] the fastball with [changeup] combo. His slider was good but the changeup we just couldn’t stop swinging at it and kind of beating it into the ground. Other than Luis [Arraez] we just had some weak, pull-side ground balls too often and too much.”
Fried (2-0) faced 29 batters, two over the minimum, as the Marlins fell victim to some costly double plays.
Miami’s Emmanuel Rivera led off the top of the third with a single as the game’s first baserunner. He was erased on an Otto Lopez double play and Nick Fortes grounded out.
In the top of the seventh, Arraez reached on a leadoff single. Austin Riley’s subsequent fielding error on a ground ball to third by
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Bryan De La Cruz put runners on first and second with no out. Josh Bell hit into a 6-4-3 double play, and Avisail Garcia’s groundout stranded Arraez at third.
“It’s just been going [that way] the last 19 or 20 innings scoreless,” Schumaker said. “We have guys on base and runners in scoring position and we haven’t been able to capitalize.”
Marlins left-hander Trevor Rogers had another strong outing against the Braves. In his previous start against Atlanta (April 12 in Miami), he went five innings, allowing two earned runs on eight hits and striking out five in an 8-1 loss.
On Tuesday, Rogers
(0-3) went 52⁄3 innings, allowing five runs (three earned) on seven hits and one walk while striking out four. The two unearned runs were in the second inning. When Rogers appeared to have a 5-4-3, inning-ending double play, Lopez, the third baseman, made an error, putting two on with one out.
That set the table for an RBI double by Michael Harris II, followed by a David Fletcher sacrifice fly. Rogers limited the damage to two runs.
“We have to play clean baseball,” Schumaker said. “Against a team like that, giving them extra outs, they’re going to capitalize and they did.”
Rogers put together three scoreless innings following the second-inning blemish. In the sixth, though, the Braves’ bats saw Rogers for the third time. That resulted in three runs on five hits featuring an Adam Duvall two-run home run.
“I felt really good out there,” Rogers said. “I’m starting to get deep into ballgames consistently. That last hump I’m just trying to get over.
“When you really break it down I made one bad pitch all night. That’s probably the only one I’d take back. I kind of [threw] a backdoor slider to set up the [at-bat] and it went right into [Duvall’s] wheelhouse.”
In his five starts this season, Rogers hasn’t made it through six full innings, going 52⁄3 in his last two
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Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh St. Louis West
Los Angeles San Diego San Fran. Arizona Colorado
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14 14 13 13 11 W
14 13 12 12 6
6 9 11 12 19
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8 9 10 11 14
L
11 13 13 14 18
.727 .625 .522 .455 .240
Pct
.636 .609 .565 .542 .440
Pct
.560 .500 .480 .462 .250
— — 2 — 41⁄2 2 6 31⁄2 111⁄2 9 GB WCGB
— — 1 1 2 11⁄2 41⁄2 4 GB WCGB
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— 11⁄2 2 21⁄2 71⁄2
— 21⁄2 3 31⁄2 81⁄2
THURSDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston (Bello 3-1) at Cleveland (McKenzie 2-2), 1:10
Chi. White Sox (Soroka 0-3) at Minnesota (Ober 1-1), 1:10
Toronto (Berrios 4-0) at Kansas City (Ragans 0-2), 2:10
Seattle (Castillo 1-4) at Texas (Heaney 0-2), 2:35
Oakland (Wood 0-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Cortes Jr. 1-1), 7:05
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee (Peralta 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Keller 2-2), 12:35
Philadelphia (Wheeler 1-3) at Cincinnati (Martinez 0-0), 1:10
San Diego (Vasquez 0-1) at Colorado (Hudson 0-4), 3:10
L.A. Dodgers (Yamamoto 1-1) at Washington (Gore 2-1), 4:05
INTERLEAGUE
Houston (Verlander 1-0) at Chi. Cubs (Assad 2-0), 2:20
WEDNESDAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston at Cleveland
Detroit at Tampa Bay Oakland at N.Y. Yankees Toronto at Kansas City
Chi. White Sox at Minnesota Seattle at Texas
Baltimore at L.A. Angels starts.
“I’ve kind of been easily getting into the fifth,” Rogers said. “[My goal] is to
Miami AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Arraez 2b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .284 B.De La Cruz lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 Bell dh 3 0 0 0 0 0 .187 Av.Garcia rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .229 Chisholm Jr. cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .247 Ti.Anderson ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .241 Rivera 1b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .233 O.Lopez 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .154 Fortes c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .109
Totals 29 0 3 0 0 6 Atlanta AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Acuna Jr. rf 4 0 1 0 1 0 .291 Arcia ss 5 0 0 0 0 1 .317 Riley 3b 3 1 1 0 0 1 .253 M.Olson 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .212 Ozuna dh 3 2 1 0 1 2 .326 D’Arnaud c 3 0 2 1 0 1 .293 Duvall lf 4 2 2 2 0 0 .216 Harris II cf 4 0 2 1 0 0 .315 Da.Fletcher 2b 2 0 1 1 0 0 .250 Kelenic ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .319 Guillorme 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .188
Totals 33 5 10 5 2 6
Miami 000 000 000 — 0 31 Atlanta 020 003 00x — 5 10 1
E—O.Lopez (1), Riley (2).LOB—Miami 2, Atlanta 9.2B—Acuna Jr. (5), Harris II (4), D’Arnaud (6).HR—Duvall (2), off Tr.Rogers.RBIs—Duvall 2 (8), Da.Fletcher (2), Harris II (11), D’Arnaud (15).SB—Harris II (5).SF—D’Arnaud, Da.Fletcher.
GIDP—Bell, O.Lopez. DP—Atlanta 2 (Arcia, Da.Fletcher, M.Olson), (Riley, Da.Fletcher, M.Olson).
Runners left in scoring position—Miami 1 (Av.Garcia); Atlanta 6 (Acuna Jr. 2, Arcia 2, Harris II, M.Olson).
Miami IP H RERBBSO NP ERA Tr.Rogers 52⁄3 75314844.10 L,0-3
Bender 11⁄3 10001207.20 Cronin 120011161.93
Atlanta IP H RERBBSO NP ERA Fried W,2-0 9 3 0 0 0 6 92 4.97
Inherited runners-scored—Bender 1-0.HBP—by Bender (Riley).
Umpires—Home, Rob Drake; First, Jonathan Parra; Second, John Libka; Third, James Hoye.
T—1:54.A—33,533 (41,500). get into the sixth, seventh and eighth innings and give that bullpen some relief. That’s this staff’s goal.”