Kyle Stowers, Javier Sanoja and Owen Caissie each had two hits and two RBIs Monday night and the visiting Miami Marlins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-2.
The victory in the opener of a three-game series gave Miami a season-best four-game win streak.
Ernie Clement homered for the Blue Jays, who have lost two straight.
Nathan Lukes returned from a strained hamstring on Monday with three singles and was hit by a pitch. Davis Schneider was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo.
Miami scored a first-inning run against Trey Yesavage (2-2). Xavier Edwards led off with a double to right, took third on a groundout and trotted home on Otto Lopez’s sacrifice fly to the warning track in left.
The Blue Jays had runners at the corners with no outs in the fourth against Janson Junk (3-5) when Kazuma Okamoto and Jesus Sanchez singled. They did not score when Junk worked out of the inning with a popout, a strikeout and a lineout.
Yesavage retired 13 in a row before Sanoja doubled to left with one out in the fifth. Caissie, who is from nearby Burlington, Ont., stroked an RBI double to right center.
Toronto broke through with a run in the fifth on singles by Lenyn Sosa, Lukes and Yohendrick Pinango.
Junk allowed one run, eight hits and no walks with three strikeouts in five innings.
Miami scored three in the sixth. Toronto native Liam Hicks walked and scored on a two-out double to left on a shallow fly that Pinango missed with a sliding attempt and inadvertently kicked the ball into center field. Jakob Marsee walked and Sanoja lined a two-run double to left.
Clement homered to left against Lake Bachar in the sixth.
Mason Fluharty replaced Yesavage with two out in the seventh. Yesavage allowed five runs, five hits and two walks with six strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.
Miami added three in the eighth. Hicks led off with an infield hit against Tyler Rogers and Lopez walked. Stowers knocked an RBI double down the left-field line. Marsee’s chopped groundout to third brought Lopez home. Caissie followed with an RBI single against Adam Macko.
–Field Level Media
