Kyle Stowers homered, major league batting leader Otto L\u00f3pez had his 40th multi-hit game and the Miami Marlins beat the Seattle Mariners 2-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Tyler Phillips (2-3) pitched five sharp innings, allowing four hits on 71 pitches, before three relievers finished off Miami’s fifth straight victory. The Marlins are a major league-best 25-8 since June 1.<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez went 2 for 4, increasing his average to .345 and becoming the first player since Houston’s Jose Altuve in 2014 with 40 multi-hit games before the All-Star break. His fifth-inning double tied Luis Arraez in 2023 for the most hits by a Marlins player before the All-Star break at 126.<\/p>\n
Xavier Edwards added an RBI triple on a two-hit night.<\/p>\n
Reliever Cade Gibson threw two perfect innings and Michael Petersen worked the eighth. Pete Fairbanks pitched around Josh Naylor’s one-out single in the ninth for his 13th save.<\/p>\n
Stowers led off the second by sending first pitch from George Kirby (7-8) over the center field wall for his 12th homer.<\/p>\n
Edwards’ triple in the third made it 2-0. L\u00f3pez reached on a two-out single and raced home when Edwards hit a line drive that rolled to the warning track in right.<\/p>\n
Kirby gave up two runs and eight hits over six innings. He struck out seven and has allowed two runs in each of his last three starts.<\/p>\n
Marlins slugger Owen Caissie, who turned 24 on Wednesday and is tied for second on the club in homers with 12, exited in the second because of right calf tightness.<\/p>\n
RHP Bryce Miller (4-2, 1.71 ERA) will start for the Mariners on Thursday as they try to avoid a three-game sweep. RHP Janson Junk (3-5, 4.80) pitches for the Marlins.<\/p>\n
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