Kazuma Okamoto hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth inning Wednesday afternoon as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Miami Marlins 2-1.<\/p>\n
The Marlins outhit the Blue Jays 11-5 in the rubber match of a three-game series but stranded eight in going 2 for 11 with runners in scoring position. They also had four runners caught stealing.<\/p>\n
Otto Lopez went 4 for 4 with two stolen bases and the Marlins\u2019 lone RBI, while Xavier Edwards was 3 for 3 with a walk, a run scored and two steals for the Marlins.<\/p>\n
Miami pitching struck out 13 Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Marlins starter Eury Perez left the game after four innings when he sustained a right hamstring spasm while doing his between- innings stretching. He had a season-best nine strikeouts in four scoreless innings, allowing three hits and no walks. Michael Petersen took over in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Miami scored a first-inning run against Kevin Gausman. Edwards laced a leadoff double to right on the 10th pitch of the at-bat and scored on Lopez\u2019s one-out single to center.<\/p>\n
The Marlins loaded the bases in the third on two walks and a single before Kyle Stowers grounded into a double play.<\/p>\n
Toronto tied the score against Petersen in the fifth. Tyler Heineman worked a two-out walk after 10 pitches and scored on Nathan Lukes\u2019 double to the wall in right center.<\/p>\n
Gausman allowed one run, six hits and two walks while striking out five in five innings.<\/p>\n
Mason Fluharty took over and faced three batters, but left after allowing a one-out single to pinch-hitter Heriberto Hernandez. He had hit Jakob Marsee with a pitch to start the inning, but Marsee was caught stealing.<\/p>\n
Toronto took the lead in the sixth when Okamoto homered to right center on a 1-0 changeup from Andrew Nardi (3-3).<\/p>\n
Lopez led off the Miami eighth with a bloop single down the right-field line against Louis Varland. Stowers followed with a single to right. Marsee\u2019s fielder\u2019s choice grounder to Varland left runners at the corners with one out. The inning ended when Connor Norby took a called third strike and Marsee was caught stealing to complete a double play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kazuma Okamoto hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth inning Wednesday afternoon as the Toronto Blue Jays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-287644","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\/287644","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=287644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}