MIAMI (AP) — Luis Arraez homered twice and Jacob Stallings experienced two doubles, the 2nd a go-ahead line drive with the bases loaded in the seventh, and the Miami Marlins conquer the NL East winner Atlanta Braves 9-6 on Friday night time.
In their initially recreation due to the fact winning the division title Wednesday, the Braves dropped star slugger Ronald Acuña Jr. after 7 1/2 innings simply because of appropriate calf tightness. Acuña went to his position just after grounding into a double engage in to conclude the major of the eighth but remaining in advance of a pitch was thrown in the base 50 percent.
“I experience great, it just felt like a cramp,” Acuña reported via a translator. “Let’s see how I occur in (Saturday) and I’m sensation and if I can engage in.”
Jake Burger and Garrett Hampson each individual experienced two hits for the Marlins, who commenced Friday a half-video game from the 3rd NL wild-card spot.
“Coming back towards a group like that just reveals you the progress of our workforce and the perception they have in there,” Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker claimed. “They definitely believe they can do this. Regardless of what transpires, I’m super proud of the battle that they have.”
Down 6-4, the Marlins rallied with a 5-run seventh from relievers Pierce Johnson and Brad Hand (4-2). Arraez’s solo shot off Johnson lower it to 6-5 for his 1st career multi-homer match. Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a two-out single from Hand and scored from 1st on Hampson’s tying one to deep middle. Just after Hand walked pinch-hitter Yuli Gurriel and hit Xavier Edwards, Stallings drove in 3 runs with a shot to the corner in left.
“I just variety of experienced a emotion I was going to get it carried out,” Stallings claimed. “It’s just genuinely cool to appear by means of for the fellas. Definitely a huge game for us.”
Acuña mentioned he at first felt the irritation while chasing Chisholm’s strike in the seventh. The 25-year-outdated Acuña sustained a period-ending knee harm on the similar area two seasons ago and skipped the Braves’ 2021 Globe Sequence championship run.
“Every activity gives me nervousness mainly because I check out to be a person of these gamers that performs each solitary day,” Acuña stated of any unease about a further feasible wellbeing setback happening on the identical discipline.
A.J. Puk (6-5) struck out three in 1 1/3 innings of reduction for the gain. Andrew Nardi pitched a scoreless eighth and Tanner Scott worked a perfect ninth for his ninth preserve.
“It appears to be like a person is coming by way of each working day,” Schumaker said. “But Arraez set the tone at the leading. He’s experienced an extraordinary yr.”
The Braves erased an early four-operate deficit and went in advance 6-4 on Ozzie Albies’ two-run solitary off reliever David Robertson in the sixth.
Albies accomplished a 10-pitch at-bat with a delicate line generate up the center that scored guide runner Orlando Arcia. Acuña sprinted dwelling from initial as he ran on the pitch and beat Chisholm’s toss to the plate.
Braves starter Bryce Elder settled down right after a hard first two frames and done five innings of 4-operate ball. Elder gave up 9 hits and struck out 6.
The Marlins struck speedily with a three-operate initially. Arraez strike a leadoff homer, Bryan De La Cruz experienced a run-scoring solitary and scored on Jesús Sánchez’s RBI triple. Burger’s double preceded De La Cruz’s strike for a workforce cycle in the inning.
Burger manufactured it 4- with a operate-scoring solitary in the next.
“I just came out flat, was not quite sharp and wasn’t executing pitches,” Elder stated. “I was variety of pleased with the past few of innings but the 1st was just kind of sloppy and paid out for it.”
Atlanta cut the deficit on Michael Harris II’s leadoff shot and Austin Riley’s RBI single off Miami starter Johnny Cueto in the third.
Sacrifice flies from Acuña in the fourth and Eddie Rosario in the fifth tied it at 4.
Cueto was lifted soon after four innings. The veteran correct-hander gave up 3 runs and seven hits and struck out two.
Particular Number
Atlanta’s Matt Olson and Miami’s Jorge Soler, the clubs’ respective nominees for the 2023 Roberto Clemente Award, ended up allowed to use jersey No. 21 in the tribute in the course of the big leagues honoring the late Corridor of Famer on Friday.
TRAINER’S Area
Braves: RHP Jesse Chavez (remaining shin microfracture) struck out the aspect in a great inning all through his 2nd rehab outing with Triple-A Gwinnett on Thursday.
Marlins: De La Cruz remaining right after the third since of suitable ankle irritation. … Soler (suitable indirect pressure) hit off the device for the second consecutive day Friday. … RHP Sandy Alcantara (appropriate forearm flexor strain) proceeds to participate in catch and is currently being evaluated day by day.
UP Upcoming
LHP Jared Schuster (4-3, 5.26) will start off the 2nd game of the sequence for the Braves on Saturday, although the Marlins will go with RHP Bryan Hoeing (2-2, 4.04).
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