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Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun got one of those runs back, chopping a single into short left to score pinch-hitter Jason Rogers.
Bour opened the fourth with a single to right and Garza’s next pitch – a fastball to Dietrich – was belted for a home run to center, giving the Marlins a 4-1 lead. He’s had five really nice starts since the all-star break. “I left fastballs up and they hit them”.
The Brewers actually took a 1-0 lead in the second when Khris Davis led off with a single against Justin Nicolino, moved to third on a double by Hernan Perez and scored on an Adeiny Hechavarria error on a grounder up the middle by Shane Peterson. The slugger has driven in six runs over his last two contests for the Brewers, who yielded a total of four runs in their three-game sweep of Philadelphia over the weekend.
“It wasn’t Matt’s best night”.
The Miami Marlins look to keep rolling after winning six of their last eight.
“He was just a standard lefty”, Counsell said of Nicolino. He yielded four runs in 7 1-3 innings after being recalled from Triple-A New Orleans for the third time this year. The Marlins salvaged the finale of their three-game set in St. Louis as Derek Dietrich erased a deficit with a three-run triple in the fifth inning en route to a 6-4 triumph.
Martin Prado’s let go of coast turned it 5-1 among the fifth.
Miami picked up an insurance run in the eighth off reliever Kyle Lohse on an RBI single by former Brewer Casey McGehee. The Brewers finished with seven hits on the night.
Marlins left-hander Adam Conley didn’t fare much better, though he did go one inning further and only allowed four runs on nine hits and a walk with seven strikeouts.
The game ended on a close groundout by Jonathan Lucroy at first that was challenged by Counsell. “Obviously you use a little more discretion if it is earlier in the game, but last play of the game, you’re going to just roll the dice”.
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Flores becomes the third rookie starter for Miami, which has used 12 different pitchers who are 25 years old or younger this season, the most in the majors.
