{"id":781835,"date":"2026-07-06T03:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:21:10","slug":"marlins-pull-eury-perez-after-seven-perfect-innings-survive-9-8-thriller-vs-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781835\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Pull Eury P\u00e9rez After Seven Perfect Innings, Survive 9-8 Thriller vs. A\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eury Perez<\/a> pitched seven perfect innings before getting lifted by Miami manager Clayton McCullough, and the Marlins<\/a> nearly squandered an eight-run lead Sunday in a 9-8 victory over the Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heriberto Hernandez<\/a> homered twice for the surprising Marlins (49-42), who have won nine of 12 overall after completing a three-game sweep. Leo Jimenez<\/a> and All-Star shortstop Otto Lopez<\/a> also went deep.<\/p>\n

Lopez, who leads the majors with a .346 batting average, drove in three runs and scored twice. He and Hern\u00e1ndez had back-to-back homers in the sixth, and each finished with three of Miami’s 16 hits.<\/p>\n

Lopez has 39 multihit games, most before the All-Star break since Houston\u2019s Jose Altuve had 40 in 2014.<\/p>\n

P\u00e9rez (5-6) struck out a season-high eight and retired all 21 batters he faced. It was the fourth time this year he didn\u2019t walk anyone.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-8 right-hander, who missed the 2024 season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, threw 92 pitches \u2014 his most in three starts since returning from the injured list June 24. He had been sidelined since late May because of a bizarre leg injury sustained while he was stretching in the dugout.<\/p>\n

The crowd full of A’s fans booed when McCullough replaced P\u00e9rez with reliever Lake Bachar<\/a> to begin the eighth.<\/p>\n

Moments later, Miami’s bid for its first perfect game quickly unraveled.<\/p>\n

Bachar issued a leadoff walk to Lawrence Butler<\/a>, the first baserunner for the A\u2019s. Joshua Kuroda-Grauer<\/a> then dunked a pop-fly single into shallow right field for their first hit.<\/p>\n

Carlos Cortes<\/a> followed with an RBI double, Max Muncy<\/a> walked and Jonah Heim<\/a> launched a grand slam that shaved Miami\u2019s lead to 8-5.<\/p>\n

Brian Serven<\/a> singled to chase Bachar, who didn\u2019t retire any of the six batters he faced.<\/p>\n

Michael Petersen<\/a> got through the eighth without any more damage, and Miami tacked on an insurance run in the ninth. That proved critical when Pete Fairbanks<\/a> gave up three runs, two earned, in the bottom half before finally closing it out.<\/p>\n

Heim had a two-run single to finish with six RBIs.<\/p>\n

Gage Jump (3-3) allowed a career-high six runs in three innings for the Athletics, who have lost seven of eight.<\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez hit solo homers in the first and sixth. Jim\u00e9nez added a two-run drive in the third \u2014 his first home run since June 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Marlins: Open their next series Tuesday in Seattle.<\/p>\n

Athletics: Visit the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Reporting by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eury Perez pitched seven perfect innings before getting lifted by Miami manager Clayton McCullough, and the Marlins nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[5654,64,63,210611,15920,52010,243129,182543,169247,365728,74938,22906,330426,5882,6592,1188,369896,591,106498,16057,85],"class_list":["post-781835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brian-serven","tag-carlos-cortes","tag-eury-perez","tag-event_recap","tag-heriberto-hernandez","tag-jonah-heim","tag-joshua-kuroda-grauer","tag-lake-bachar","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-leo-jimenez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-muncy","tag-miami-marlins","tag-michael-petersen","tag-mlb","tag-otto-lopez","tag-pete-fairbanks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781835","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=781835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}