Kyle Stowers went 4-for-5 with two long home runs and five RBIs to power the visiting Miami Marlins to a 12-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday.
After losing the first two games of the series by a combined score of 15-2, the Marlins turned the tables behind Stowers’ two blasts, along with home runs from Owen Caissie, Jakob Marsee and Joe Mack.
That was more than enough offense for Sandy Alcantara (7-4), who worked six strong innings to improve to 4-0 in June. The right-hander gave up four runs (two earned) and eight hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
Phillies starter Andrew Painter (1-8) lasted just two innings and allowed six runs and six hits with two walks. Alec Bohm went 2-for-4 with an RBI for Philadelphia, while Trea Turner had three hits and scored a run.
The Marlins jumped on Painter right from the start, beginning with Stowers’ two-run homer in the first inning.
The Phillies answered with two runs in the bottom half on RBI hits from Brandon Marsh and Bohm before Miami tacked on four more runs in the second inning.
Caissie opened the fourth with a home run to right-center. Mack walked and Esteury Ruiz followed with a double before Liam Hicks’ infield single scored Mack for a 4-2 lead.
With two outs, Stowers delivered an RBI double and Xavier Edwards knocked in another run with an infield hit as the visitors went ahead 6-2.
Philadelphia bounced back with two runs in a sloppy second inning that featured errors on Otto Lopez at shortstop and Stowers at first, as well as a balk by Alcantara. The Phillies also had two hits and a walk in the inning as they closed within 6-4.
The Marlins led by that same margin until the sixth inning, when Turner’s error at shortstop opened the door for a four-run inning against lefty Tanner Banks. Mack hit a two-run homer to make it 8-4 and Stowers went deep later in the frame to create a 10-4 advantage.
Alcantara retired the Phillies in order in the sixth, ending his day after 102 pitches.
Stowers capped his productive afternoon with an RBI single in the eighth before Marsee hit his home run in the ninth.
–Field Level Media
