Kyle Stowers, Javier Sanoja and Owen Caissie each had two hits and two RBIs Monday night and the visiting Miami Marlins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-2.<\/p>\n
The victory in the opener of a three-game series gave Miami a season-best four-game win streak.<\/p>\n
Ernie Clement homered for the Blue Jays, who have lost two straight.<\/p>\n
Nathan Lukes returned from a strained hamstring on Monday with three singles and was hit by a pitch. Davis Schneider was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Miami scored a first-inning run against Trey Yesavage (2-2). Xavier Edwards led off with a double to right, took third on a groundout and trotted home on Otto Lopez\u2019s sacrifice fly to the warning track in left.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays had runners at the corners with no outs in the fourth against Janson Junk (3-5) when Kazuma Okamoto and Jesus Sanchez singled. They did not score when Junk worked out of the inning with a popout, a strikeout and a lineout.<\/p>\n
Yesavage retired 13 in a row before Sanoja doubled to left with one out in the fifth. Caissie, who is from nearby Burlington, Ont., stroked an RBI double to right center.<\/p>\n
Toronto broke through with a run in the fifth on singles by Lenyn Sosa, Lukes and Yohendrick Pinango.<\/p>\n
Junk allowed one run, eight hits and no walks with three strikeouts in five innings.<\/p>\n
Miami scored three in the sixth. Toronto native Liam Hicks walked and scored on a two-out double to left on a shallow fly that Pinango missed with a sliding attempt and inadvertently kicked the ball into center field. Jakob Marsee walked and Sanoja lined a two-run double to left.<\/p>\n
Clement homered to left against Lake Bachar in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Mason Fluharty replaced Yesavage with two out in the seventh. Yesavage allowed five runs, five hits and two walks with six strikeouts in 6 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Miami added three in the eighth. Hicks led off with an infield hit against Tyler Rogers and Lopez walked. Stowers knocked an RBI double down the left-field line. Marsee\u2019s chopped groundout to third brought Lopez home. Caissie followed with an RBI single against Adam Macko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Stowers, Javier Sanoja and Owen Caissie each had two hits and two RBIs Monday night and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-284385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}