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07/08 20:24 CDT Stowers homers, Lpez has 40th multi-hit game as Marlins beat
Mariners 2-0 for 5th straight win
Stowers homers, Lpez has 40th multi-hit game as Marlins beat Mariners 2-0 for
5th straight win
MIAMI (AP) --- Kyle Stowers homered, major league batting leader Otto Lpez had
his 40th multi-hit game and the Miami Marlins beat the Seattle Mariners 2-0 on
Wednesday night.
Tyler Phillips (2-3) pitched five sharp innings, allowing four hits on 71
pitches, before three relievers finished off Miami's fifth straight victory.
The Marlins are a major league-best 25-8 since June 1.
Lpez went 2 for 4, increasing his average to .345 and becoming the first
player since Houston's Jose Altuve in 2014 with 40 multi-hit games before the
All-Star break. His fifth-inning double tied Luis Arraez in 2023 for the most
hits by a Marlins player before the All-Star break at 126.
Xavier Edwards added an RBI triple on a two-hit night.
Reliever Cade Gibson threw two perfect innings and Michael Petersen worked the
eighth. Pete Fairbanks pitched around Josh Naylor's one-out single in the ninth
for his 13th save.
Stowers led off the second by sending first pitch from George Kirby (7-8) over
the center field wall for his 12th homer.
Edwards' triple in the third made it 2-0. Lpez reached on a two-out single and
raced home when Edwards hit a line drive that rolled to the warning track in
right.
Kirby gave up two runs and eight hits over six innings. He struck out seven and
has allowed two runs in each of his last three starts.
Marlins slugger Owen Caissie, who turned 24 on Wednesday and is tied for second
on the club in homers with 12, exited in the second because of right calf
tightness.
Up next
RHP Bryce Miller (4-2, 1.71 ERA) will start for the Mariners on Thursday as
they try to avoid a three-game sweep. RHP Janson Junk (3-5, 4.80) pitches for
the Marlins.
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