Bryan Torres hit a two-run homer and Kyle Leahy earned his first victory in more than a month as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the visiting Miami Marlins 2-1 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n
Leahy (6-4) allowed one run on two hits through five innings for his first victory since May 16. He walked three and struck out five as St. Louis halted a four-game slide.<\/p>\n
JoJo Romero, Ryan Stanek and George Soriano combined for three scoreless innings before Riley O\u2019Brien retired the Marlins in order in the ninth for his 20th save.<\/p>\n
Miami had its four-game win streak snapped despite an impressive outing by Tyler Phillips (1-3), who gave up two runs on six hits with no walks and one strikeout through 7 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
The Marlins were held to four hits and lost for just the sixth time in 24 games this month.<\/p>\n
JJ Wetherholt had two hits for St. Louis, which took its first lead of the series in the second inning after being limited to two runs over the first two games.<\/p>\n
Masyn Winn singled to begin the inning and Torres followed with his third homer of the season, a 364-foot shot to right field.<\/p>\n
The Marlins threatened in the first with runners at first and second and two outs before Leahy got Heriberto Hernandez to fly out.<\/p>\n
Miami scored their first run in the fifth when Owen Caissie hit a leadoff double and scored on Graham Pauley\u2019s ground-rule double to right.<\/p>\n
Phillips retired 18 out of his last 19 batters faced before yielding back-to-back singles with one out in the eighth.<\/p>\n
With runners on the corners, Cade Gibson replaced Phillips and escaped unscathed when Joe Mack picked off Nathan Church at third base and Wetherholt struck out.<\/p>\n
St. Louis\u2019 Alec Burleson went 0-for-3, ending his on-base streak at a career-high 25 consecutive games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Torres hit a two-run homer and Kyle Leahy earned his first victory in more than a month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-322914","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\/322914","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=322914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}