St. Louis Cardinals at Miami Marlins

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St. Louis Cardinals

63-65, 28-35 Away

Final
2 - 6

Miami Marlins

60-67, 29-33 Home

Alcántara works 7 sharp innings, Acosta homers for 1st career hit, Marlins beat Cardinals 6-2

Marlins top Cardinals to snap 2-game skid

Heriberto Hernández had three hits and two RBI and Troy Johnston singled twice for the Marlins, who avoided a three-game series sweep.

Alcántara (7-11) scattered five hits and struck out a season-high nine. It was the 29-year-old right-hander's third outing of the season that lasted seven innings.

Acosta, who was hitless in eight at-bats since being called up Monday, hit a fastball from Cardinals starter Andre Pallante 418 feet over the wall in center in the sixth inning to increase Miami's lead to 5-2.

The Cardinals had cut their deficit to 4-2 in the top of the inning Willson Contreras’ solo homer, his 17th.

Hernández scored from third on a double-play groundout in the second, and gave the Marlins a 3-0 lead with a two-run single in the third.

Lars Nootbaar’s RBI double in the fifth put the Cardinals on the board before Johnston hit a run-scoring single in the bottom half to give the Marlins another three-run advantage.

Pallante (6-11) was lifted after 5 1/3 innings. He gave up five runs and eight hits with four strikeouts.

Key moment Jakob Marsee and Agustín Hernández completed a double steal before Hernández’s single in the third.

Key stat Alcántara made his 163rd career start, surpassing Dontrelle Willis for second in Marlins’ history. Ricky Nolasco leads with 197.

Up next

RHP Sonny Gray (11-6, 4.30 ERA) will start the opener of a three-game series at Tampa Bay on Thursday. The Rays will go with RHP Joe Boyle (1-2, 4.68).

The Marlins have not announced a starter for the opener of a three-game home series against Toronto on Friday. RHP Shane Bieber will make his season debut for the Blue Jays.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Walker struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Pozo flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Saggese struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Faucher relieved Henriquez
	8th Inning	Hicks grounded out to first.
	8th Inning	Ramírez struck out looking.

Statistics

STL		MIA
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	2
7	Ground Balls	15
13	Strikeouts	7
2	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	3
1	Walks	7
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	6
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	29
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
14	Fly Balls	9
0	Caught Stealing	1
143	Pitches	160
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
9	Total Bases	12
35	Plate Appearances	40
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	1
1.0	Runs Created	6.3
.147	Batting Average	.290
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.265	Slugging Percentage	.387
.147	Secondary Average	.387
.171	On Base Percentage	.450
.436	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.837
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.7
1.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.1
18.0	Batter Rating	37.0
34.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.75
4.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.00
.118	Isolated Power	.097
0.08	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.00
.029	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.175
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.097
4.0	Runs Produced	11.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.8
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
66.8	MLB Rating	86.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0