For that he earned a giddy greeting from Fernandez.
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“I looked at him like”. “But I think I can make up for it with the right angle or a good jump on the ball, and just flying around, making plays and laying out”. We talk about his age but we really shouldnt, because you just watch him play, and if he used that hair dye Keith Hernandez uses, we wouldnt know he wasnt 30..
Brian Dozier hit a solo home run for the Twins in the second inning and Miguel Sano added an RBI single in the sixth.
Votto connected in the first inning off Archie Bradley (3-6). “Luckily it was us”. Giants ace Madison Bumgarner went seven innings, allowing two runs. He allowed two hits, two runs and two walks in his two-third of an inning.
Fernandez, the former Alonso High standout, improved his ERA at Marlins Park to 1.47 in 37 starts.
DeGrom was coming off the first complete game of his career, a one-hit shutout in his last start, but his anticipated pitcher’s duel with Fernandez failed to materialize. Hansel Robles worked a 1-2-3 seventh inning that included a strikeout of Ichiro Suzuki, who remained at 2, 996 hits through Sunday, and Jeurys Familia picked up his MLB-leading 35th save of the season. I shudder to think if he’d been working on a one-run lead what last night’s result would have been. I threw it up there, and it was a fastball count so.
Yoenis Cespedes and James Loney had consecutive RBI singles against Kyle Barraclough in the eighth to open a three-run lead.
But that was all they managed against Fernandez. The young righty out of the Dominican Republic went six innings, and gave up just four hits and one run, while striking out four and walking no one.
Christian Yelich led off the Miami third with a single, and Stanton dented the scoreboard with a homer that landed between the words BALLS and STRIKES.
“It was one of those pretty ones”, Mattingly said.
“I asked him when we took him out and he said he’s just got to get a little more used to moving around a little more from side to side, but he said he saw the ball off the bat good and those were certainly positive signs”.
Stanton clubbed his team-best 21st homer in Saturday’s 7-2 win, allowing Miami to regain sole possession of the second wild-card spot and put a 1 1/2-game cushion between itself and NY in the same race.
Nelson Cruz, Mariners: With a grand slam and a three-run homer, the slugger plated half of Mariners’ 14 runs in blowout win over Blue Jays.
He retired the Marlins in order only once, but twice ended threats by retiring Stanton, who has six homers against the Mets this month. “So this was a good series for us to win”. “It’s the soft-tossing guys we’ve had a lot of trouble with”.
Suzuki remains four hits shy of the 3,000 milestone.
Giancarlo Stanton homered and had his first four-hit game since 2012, driving in three to give Jose Fernandez all the support he needed, and the Marlins beat the Mets 7-2 Saturday night.
It took the Mets until the eighth inning to extend their lead.
Urena has had two solid starts in a row since returning from New Orleans.
“(Cosart) is the guy”, Mattingly said.
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His solid outing earned him at least one more start and at the very least gives the Marlins a fifth-starter option for the time being as they continue to pursue trades to bolster their rotation before the August 1 deadline. We’ve got to sit Grandy if we put him in right. “Tonight won’t mean much without that”.
