Brujan hits walk-off in 10th, snaps Miami’s skid | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

MIAMI — Vidal Brujan drove in the winning run with a single in the 10th inning and the Miami Marlins beat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-8 on Tuesday night to snap a six-game skid.

Nick Gordon reached on a one-out infield single against Chris Roycroft (1-1) that advanced automatic runner Jesus Sanchez to third. Tim Anderson followed with an RBI infield single, tying the game at 8-8. Otto Lopez’s groundout advanced Gordon and Anderson before Brujan’s soft liner to center field gave Miami its sixth walk-off win of the season.

It was Brujan’s first career walk-off hit. In a similar opportunity Monday, Brujan fouled out in the 10th inning.

“I understand I didn’t come through (Monday) but that’s how baseball is. Baseball is all about opportunities,” Brujan said. “Today I was given another opportunity and I responded. I came more focused, looking for my pitch.”

Dylan Carlson’s sacrifice fly against reliever Calvin Faucher (2-1) in the top of the 10th put St. Louis ahead.

Faucher was the fifth Marlins reliever who combined limited the Cardinals to one unearned run over the last six innings.

“A lot of good things happened today, obviously, the bullpen was lights out,” Marlins Manager Skip Schumaker said. “They did a fantastic job.”

Sanchez homered, doubled and singled, while Christian Bethancourt also went deep for the Marlins.

“Even his outs are loud,” Schumaker said of Sanchez. “He’s locked in right now. If we can get him somehow to be consistent, he’s going to be really, really good.”

Paul Goldschmidt, Brendan Donovan and Alec Burleson homered for the Cardinals, who squandered four leads.

St. Louis snapped a 4-4 tie on Brandon Crawford’s RBI groundout and Michael Siani’s run-scoring single against Miami starter Roddery Munoz in the third. Burleson’s solo shot off Munoz in the fourth made it 7-4.

Bethancourt narrowed the gap with an RBI groundout in the fourth and a solo shot that ended Cardinals starter Lance Lynn’s outing in the sixth.

Lynn gave up six runs and 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings. The veteran right-hander has allowed 12 earned runs over 13 2/3 innings in his last three outings.

“He got ahead of a decent amount of guys but pitched through some traffic,” Cardinals Manager Oliver Marmol said. “We were able to score some runs but unfortunately, not enough.”

Matthew Liberatore gave up Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s one-out single and Bryan De La Cruz’s single that advanced Chisholm to third. Chisholm raced home on Josh Bell’s sacrifice fly.

Munoz was lifted after four innings. The rookie right-hander gave up seven runs and eight hits in his sixth career start.

Sanchez’s three-run homer in the bottom of the first erased a 2-0 deficit after Goldschmidt’s two-run blast in the top half gave St. Louis the quick lead.

Donovan put the Cardinals ahead again in the second with a two-run homer. But Miami tied it in the bottom half on Chisholm’s sacrifice fly.

REDS 2, PIRATES 1 Nick Lodolo allowed one run in seven innings to win a fifth straight start, Santiago Espinal hit a two-run homer and Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh.

PHILLIES 4, PADRES 3 Nick Castellanos hit a bloop ground-rule double down the right-field line to cap four consecutive ninth-inning hits and Philadelphia rallied from a two-run deficit for a win over San Diego.

DIAMONDBACKS 5, NATIONALS 0 Ketel Marte homered, Slade Cecconi pitched six sharp innings and Arizona defeated Washington in the opener of a three-game series.

CUBS 5, GIANTS 2 Cody Bellinger, Ian Happ and Christopher Morel drove in go-ahead runs with singles in Chicago’s three-run eighth inning to lead a win over San Francisco and end a two-game slide.

WHITE SOX 2, ASTROS 0 Jonathan Cannon pitched seven-hit ball into the ninth inning in his first major league win, helping Chicago beat Houston.

DODGERS 11, ROCKIES 9 Jason Heyward smashed a pinch-hit grand slam and Teoscar Hernandez added a three-run homer — all in a seven-run ninth inning — as Los Angeles rallied for victory over Colorado.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

MARINERS 8, GUARDIANS 5 J.P. Crawford hit a two-run homer, Luke Raley and Dylan Moore added solo shots and Seattle stayed baseball’s hottest team with a win over AL Central-leading Cleveland.

YANKEES 4, ORIOLES 2 Star slugger Aaron Judge says X-rays and a CT scan were negative after he was hit on the left hand by a 94 mph fastball from Albert Suarez, forcing the slugger out of New York’s win over Baltimore.

RED SOX 4, BLUE JAYS 3 Ceddanne Rafaela had three hits, including a tiebreaking single in the eighth-inning, and Boston beat Toronto to earn a third straight series win.

TWINS 7, RAYS 6 Carlos Santana’s game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Minnesota a victory over Tampa Bay and extended the Twins’ winning streak to six games.

INTERLEAGUE

BRAVES 2, TIGERS 1 Spencer Schwellenbach earned his first major league win and Ozzie Albies delivered a key hit for the second straight game as Atlanta downed Detroit.

METS 7, RANGERS 6 Pete Alonso hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning and New York extended its winning streak to a season-best seven games by rallying late for a victory over slumping Texas.