MIAMI – Luis Arraez hit a go-in advance sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to give the Miami Marlins a 4-3 gain about the Chicago Cubs on Sunday and a sweep of the three-match series.
Jon Berti drew a leadoff walk towards reliever Keegan Thompson (1-1) and advanced to 3rd on Jesús Sánchez’s one. Arraez then drove the initially pitch from Thompson to deep heart to score Berti.
“I was searching for one thing in the zone,” Arraez claimed. “I just needed to hit the ball to the outfield and I did it.”
The 26-yr-aged, who was the reigning AL batting champion with Minnesota past period, completed April with an MLB-very best .438 regular.
“It really is been fantastic for the reason that we have been successful,” Arraez claimed of his initial month in Miami. “Individually it is really been astounding due to the fact I do the job hard for this and thank God.”
Tanner Scott (2-1) pitched a scoreless eighth about two singles and A.J. Puk closed with a excellent ninth for his fifth conserve. Garrett Hampson doubled two times for the Marlins, who gained their fourth straight and are 10- in a single-operate online games.
“What we preach a ton is profitable each series,” Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker mentioned. “When you come in for a 12 o’clock recreation, with some fellas banged up, place starter, so to discuss, and you can get a single of individuals online games, which is big for our club.”
The Cubs were being 1 for 7 with runners in scoring posture. Chicago’s Nico Hoerner singled in the seventh, extending his consecutive online games on base streak to 25.
“It can be just part of 162 (online games),” Cubs manager David Ross reported. “I failed to believe we performed poor baseball. We failed to get the huge strike this series, they did. That’s just baseball. They played improved than we did this collection.”
Justin Steele constrained Miami to a few runs and 7 hits in 6 innings. It ended the remaining-hander’s string of 12 consecutive begins of letting two operates or much less courting back to July 20, 2022.
Cody Bellinger drove a 2- pitch from Marlins reliever Andrew Nardi into the facade in right for his seventh homer in the sixth inning to tie the activity at 3.
Two innings previously, Bellinger hit a recreation-tying sacrifice fly and Seiya Suzuki tripled following Marlins centerfielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. misjudged the push that got previous his outstretched glove. But Miami retook the guide in the base fifty percent on Hampson’s RBI double.
Marlins starter Bryan Hoening was lifted after 5 innings. He allowed two runs and 5 hits, walked a person, struck out four and strike a batter.
