The Miami Marlins had twice as many hits as the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.<\/p>\n
But they still got hit harder.<\/p>\n
For the second straight night, the Marlins were burned by the long ball, with three of the Angels\u2019 four runs coming on home runs in Miami\u2019s 4-3 loss at loanDepot park.<\/p>\n
Mike Trout provided the first blow just one batter into the game, sending a Tyler Phillips pitch over the wall in right-center for a solo home run.<\/p>\n
Phillips settled in from there, allowing just that one run on five hits with four strikeouts and one walk over four innings.<\/p>\n
While surrendering a home run to Trout wasn\u2019t the ideal way to kick things off, the outing continued a string of solid, albeit short, appearances for Phillips as he navigates the transition from reliever to spot starter in Miami\u2019s rotation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been good. He\u2019s going out there and putting us in a position to win,\u201d Marlins manager Clayton McCullough said. \u201cOther than the homer, I think he threw a lot of good pitches. He did his part.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miami eventually erased the early deficit with plenty of help from Kyle Stowers.<\/p>\n
Stowers worked a bases-loaded walk in the fourth inning to tie the game, then gave Miami a 2-1 lead in the sixth with an RBI single to center. He finished 4-for-4 with a walk and drove in two of Miami\u2019s three runs.<\/p>\n
But the lead disappeared an inning later.<\/p>\n
Rookie reliever Josh Ekness committed a fielding error that allowed Josh Lowe to score the tying run before Nolan Schanuel delivered the bigger blow, launching a two-run home run to center field that suddenly turned Miami\u2019s one-run advantage into a 4-2 deficit. All three runs charged to Ekness were unearned.<\/p>\n
The Marlins made one final push in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Agust\u00edn Ram\u00edrez scored on Leo Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s RBI single to cut the deficit to one before Javier Sanoja ripped a double into left. Jim\u00e9nez raced around from first and nearly scored the tying run, but the Angels completed the relay to cut him down at the plate and end the game.<\/p>\n
Damage goes deep<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s loss followed a much uglier version of the same problem.<\/p>\n
During Thursday\u2019s 11-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves, Miami surrendered three home runs that accounted for four runs. Janson Junk allowed a two-run shot to Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., John King surrendered a solo homer to Matt Olson and Cade Gibson allowed Acu\u00f1a\u2019s second homer of the night in the eighth.<\/p>\n
A night later, the Marlins actually doubled the Angels in hits, 12-6.<\/p>\n
The problem was what Los Angeles did with theirs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not about getting the most hits in a game. It\u2019s about scoring the most runs, and they did that,\u201d McCullough said. \u201cMissed opportunities ended up being the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Phillips, the difference came down to one regrettable pitch against one of the best hitters of his generation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI threw a pitch in the wrong spot to a very, very good hitter,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cI\u2019m still young in this game\u2026 The four-seam isn\u2019t my best pitch, so I went into it with some doubt. He put a really nice swing on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next<\/p>\n
The Marlins continue their three-game series against the Angels on Saturday at 4:10 p.m. at loanDepot park.<\/p>\n
Sandy Alcantara is listed to start for Miami against Angels right-hander Walbert Ure\u00f1a. Alcantara enters at 10-6 with a 4.01 ERA, while Ure\u00f1a is 6-7 with a 2.78 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Marlins had twice as many hits as the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night. But they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-365983","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\/365983","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=365983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}