That is the sound of the uplifting mojo from the Miami Marlins’ improbable comeback win that began the weekend exiting Marlins Park.
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Ranking 15th, San Diego is in the top half of the league in hits, notching 7.98 per game.
The Marlins managed a total of two runs in those setbacks and were shut out twice – both 1-0 – going 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position on Saturday, with the lone hit coming from pitcher Jose Urena. He also has a team-high four four-hit games this season. Marlins LF Christian Yelich has nine RBIs in his last 10 games.2.
MIAMI (AP) – Manager Don Mattingly says the Miami Marlins will find out a lot about their team down the stretch by being in a playoff race for the first time in more than a decade.
“It’s something that’s still attainable”.
“As bad as it looks right now in this storm we’re in, it’s still doable”, Mattingly said.
While categorizing the shortcomings of his club in losing five of its past six series, including last in the league in runs this month, Mattingly laid out the mindset that will be needed to salvage the objective over the final 32 games during a soul-searching and brutally honest postgame soliloquy that went on for more than five minutes. We’re four games over.500, so that means we’ve been under.500 since the [All-Star] break.
“Martin’s wonderful”, Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
“These guys have to have quality at-bats”. Six different players contributed to the dubious feat.
Padres: RHP Luis Perdomo (6-7, 6.24) will start Sunday’s series finale. We have to continue to play. “Hats off to him”. “He pitched a good game, mixed it up well and kept us off balance”.
Rookie Luis Perdomo took advantage of the double plays to pitch his first career complete game, and the first this year for the Padres.
Justin Nicolino (2-6), hastily summomed from the minors to start in place of Andrew Cashner (blister), turned in a serviceable effort on short notice, limiting the Padres to three runs in six innings.
Jose Bautista had his first three-hit game of the season for the AL East-leading Blue Jays. The first of those was set up by a stolen base.
Nicolino (2-6) picked up the loss in the game, but pitched well.
“Just a couple of two-out pitches that you’d like to have back”, Nicolino said. This will be yet another big opportunity for the 24-year-old Nicolino.
Miami trails the St. Louis Cardinals by 1 1/2 games for that second wild card and can point to a lack of offense in its three losses in five games. Richard struck out 3, walked 1, and credited 13 of hits outs to 9 groundouts and 4 flyouts respectively.
“It’s kind of been like that since I was little”, Schimpf said of his power. But you’ve been doing something all year long. “I was just hoping it would carry enough to get over his head”.
The Padres erased a two-run deficit on Sardinas’ bases-loaded double in the fourth for a 3-2 lead.
Schimpf’s home run, his 15th, into the upper deck in right field pushed the lead to 5-2.
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Schimpf scored in the sixth when he was hit by a pitch, took second on a wild pitch and came home on a two-out single by Adam Rosales.
