ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Kiermaier hit Pablo López’s first pitch for an inside-the-park dwelling run and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Miami Marlins 4-0 on Tuesday night time.
Harold Ramirez and Ji-Man Choi additionally homered off López, who had given up solely two dwelling runs in eight previous begins.
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Shane McClanahan (4-2) pitched six innings for the Rays, hanging out 9.
Kiermaier hit a line drive that heart fielder Jesús Sánchez dove ahead to try to catch. The ball skipped previous Sánchez and rolled to the wall as Kiermaier circled the bases, scoring when catcher Jacob Stallings couldn’t management the relay throw in time.
It was the sixth homer of the yr for Kiermaier, who’s 13 for twenty-four with three homers in his final 5 video games. Ramirez hit his first dwelling run since June 21 with Cleveland. Choi’s two-run shot in the sixth was his third of the season.
The Marlins’ greatest likelihood to attain off McClanahan got here in the sixth, when Garrett Cooper and Jesús Aguilar led off with singles. After a double play, McClanahan threw a wild pitch that bounced back into truthful territory, inflicting Cooper to alter his thoughts about attempting to attain from third. When McClanahan slipped and fell, nonetheless, Cooper tried once more to attain, however third baseman Isaac Paredes threw him out.
Lopez (4-2), who got here into the sport with a National League-best 1.57 ERA, gave up 4 runs on 9 hits in seven innings, hanging out eight.
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Cooper, main off for the primary time in his profession, and Stallings every had two of Miami’s 5 hits.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: OF Jazz Chisolm (tight left hamstring) will in all probability be back in the lineup Wednesday. … Ex-Rays IF Joey Wendle, who has been out two weeks with a sore proper hamstring, has been working at 100% for a couple of days, in accordance with supervisor Don Mattingly.
Rays: OF Manuel Margot (strained proper hamstring) will in all probability be activated Wednesday. … IF Yandy Diáz’s shoulder remains to be sore, however supervisor Kevin Cash mentioned Diáz will in all probability be back in the the lineup Wednesday.
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RHP Cody Poteet (0-0, 0.78) will get his second begin of the season for the Marlins in opposition to RHP Drew Rasmussen (4-1, 2.33). Rasmussen is 4-0 with a 1.01 ERA in his final 5 begins.
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