SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Liam Hicks and Connor Norby each hit home runs as the Miami Marlins defeated the San Francisco Giants 9-4 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Xavier Edwards, Otto Lopez, and Kyle Stowers each added three hits for the Marlins, and Graham Pauley had two. The Marlins collected 16 total hits.<\/p>\n
Sandy Alcantara (3-2) went six innings, allowing nine hits and three runs while fanning four. Lake Bachar worked two innings, allowing two hits and one run, and John King threw a hitless ninth with one strikeout.<\/p>\n
Hicks has reached base safely in 10 straight games and is tied for seventh in the NL in batting average (.317). Edwards leads the NL with a .347 mark, and Lopez sits in fourth at .330.<\/p>\n
The Marlins scored in each of the first four innings, including three runs with two outs in the first. Edwards\u2019 RBI double scored Jakob Marsee, and Hicks hit a 390-foot two-run homer to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Norby hit a three-run homer in the fourth to stretch the lead to 8-0, and Lopez added an RBI single in the sixth.<\/p>\n
For the Giants, Jung Ho Lee was 3 for 4 with a home run, and Luis Arraez had three singles. <\/p>\n
Adrian Houser (0-3) surrendered 11 hits and eight runs in four innings of work.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
RHP Eury P\u00e9rez (2-1, 4.15) takes the hill for the Marlins, and LHP Robbie Ray (2-3, 2.86) starts for San Francisco in the second game of the series on Saturday. ___<\/p>\n
AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 Liam Hicks and Connor Norby each hit home runs as the Miami Marlins defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-627130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}