Miami Marlins edge Cleveland Guardians to end 4-game losing streak
Jazz Chisholm Jr. delivered a tiebreaking single with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Miami Marlins snapped a four-game losing streak with their 3-2 win over the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Friday.
Cleveland reliever Cade Smith (3-1) retired the first two batters in the eighth, but Jake Burger doubled off the right field wall. He then scored on Chisholm’s line-drive hit into center. The Marlins had kept the game tied in the top of the inning when right fielder Dane Myers threw out the Guardians’ Daniel Schneemann trying to tag up from third.
Bryan De La Cruz and Josh Bell hit back-to-back homers with two outs in the third as Miami posted its first win in five June games. Starter Ryan Weathers left after 2 1/3 innings with a finger issue, but five Marlins relievers held the AL Central-leading Guardians to two hits, with Tanner Scott (5-4) getting the win.
Brayan Rocchio hit his first career homer with a man aboard in the third for Cleveland, which was held to six hits while dropping its second straight game in the opener of this three-game series.
Weathers allowed two hits over the first two innings and struck out Will Brennan to open the third. He then yielded a single to Austin Hedges, and ninth-place hitter Rocchio followed by clearing the left field wall to give Cleveland a 2-0 lead.
The left-hander exited immediately due to index finger soreness. However, his teammates picked him up in the bottom of the third when De La Cruz clubbed a solo home run to center and Bell followed that with a drive into the left field seats off Cleveland starter Logan Allen to tie it at 2-2.
Allen allowed two runs on four hits with three walks while striking out three in six innings for the Guardians, who are 4-5 since winning nine in a row.
De La Cruz had three hits for Miami, which won for just the third time in its past nine contests.
