{"id":750326,"date":"2026-06-21T06:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750326\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:52:13","slug":"miami-marlins-beat-san-francisco-giants-6-3-in-their-7th-straight-victory-on-home-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/750326\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Marlins beat San Francisco Giants 6-3 in their 7th straight victory on home turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Meyer allowed two runs in five innings to win his eighth consecutive decision to start the season, Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez homered and the Miami Marlins beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Saturday for their seventh straight victory at home.<\/p>\n<p>Jakob Marsee doubled and singled for the Marlins, who are 13-4 in June and improved to 39-38 to move above .500 for the first time since April 13, when they were 9-8.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer (8-0) labored through his outing, allowing seven hits, striking out seven and walking two. But he completed a perfect fifth to surpass Dontrelle Willis in franchise history to start the season with eight straight wins. Willis won his first seven decisions in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Schmitt doubled twice and homered for the Giants, who stranded nine runners.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins chased Giants starter Trevor McDonald (2-5) during a four-run fourth. Hernandez&#8217;s two-run blast against reliever Matt Gage capped the scoring and put Miami ahead 6-2. Marsee also hit an RBI single and Otto L\u00f3pez scored from third on a double-play groundout with the bases loaded.<\/p>\n<p>With this single in the fourth, L\u00f3pez became the first player to reach 100 hits in the majors this season.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt&#8217;s RBI double in the eighth narrowed the gap before Pete Fairbanks pitched a perfect ninth for his 11th save.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald allowed five runs and three hits in three-plus innings. He walked three and hit three batters. It was the right-hander&#8217;s second consecutive outing in which he failed to complete four innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants erased their second one-run deficit in the early innings with Schmitt&#8217;s solo homer in the fourth, his 16th. <\/p>\n<p>Xavier Edwards reached on a fielding error by McDonald that allowed Joe Mack to score from third and give the Marlins a 2-1 lead in the second. <\/p>\n<p>Owen Caissie walked with the bases loaded in the first to put Miami on the board.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco tied it on Drew Gilbert&#8217;s RBI single in the second.<\/p>\n<p>RHP Logan Webb (4-4, 3.46 ERA) will start the series finale for the Giants on Sunday against Marlins RHP Ryan Gusto (0-2, 7.24).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Meyer allowed two runs in five innings to win his eighth consecutive decision to start the season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5882,1188,591,5157,85],"class_list":["post-750326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}