{"id":388015,"date":"2026-09-02T07:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:02:16","slug":"graham-pauley-homers-and-triples-to-drive-in-4-runs-as-miami-marlins-beat-royals-6-3-in-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/388015\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Pauley homers and triples to drive in 4 runs as Miami Marlins beat Royals 6-3 in Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Pauley homered and tripled to drive in four runs, Kyle Stowers also went deep, and the Miami Marlins rolled past the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Phillips (4-6) threw five innings of one-hit ball for the Marlins, striking out four and walking two. Three relievers combined to give up five hits with two strikeouts, with Tyler Zuber finishing off the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Pauley, recalled from Triple-A Jacksonville ahead of the game \u2014 his fifth call-up of the year \u2014 hit his second major league homer of the season in the second, a two-run shot to right.<\/p>\n<p>Stowers added a 412-footer to right in the fifth to make it a three-run game.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ap26245007236996.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Graham Pauley \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Miami Marlins&#8217; Graham Pauley celebrates with Owen Caissie after hitting a two-run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel)<\/p>\n<p>                Charlie Riedel<\/p>\n<p>Pauley&#8217;s first triple of the season drove in two more and sent Royals starter Randy Dobnak (2-3) to the dugout in the seventh. Javier Sanoja got Pauley across with a single to make it 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Dobnak went six-plus innings and allowed seven hits and six runs while striking out six and walking two.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City began a rally in the eighth as Carter Jensen hit an RBI double and Bobby Witt Jr. hit a sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Royals manager Matt Quatraro was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobCollinsTV\/status\/2094967306619113720?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ejected in the eighth inning<\/a> after the Royals were initially granted a run-scoring balk to make it a three-run game, but it was reversed after the umpires discussed the call.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals got one more on Nick Loftin&#8217;s homer in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins remain three games behind San Diego for the final NL wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Marlins RHP Eury P\u00e9rez (7-10, 3.44 ERA) starts Wednesday opposite LHP Noah Cameron (9-8, 3.98).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>See AP&#8217;s full MLB coverage here               <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham Pauley homered and tripled to drive in four runs, Kyle Stowers also went deep, and the Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10375,24222,9004,123,125,3822,124,110],"class_list":["post-388015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miami-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388015","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=388015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}