Jesus Sanchez homered and Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Nick Gordon each drove in two runs as the Miami Marlins used early offense to beat the visiting Baltimore Orioles 6-3 on Tuesday night to begin a three-game series.
Five Miami pitchers combined on a nine-hitter, including two hitless innings from A.J. Puk (4-8). Neither team scored after the third inning.
Otto Lopez and Josh Bell joined Chisholm and Sanchez with two hits apiece for the Marlins, who have alternated wins and losses across five games since the All-Star break.
Marlins starter Kyle Tyler worked 4 2/3 innings, giving up three runs on all nine of Baltimore’s hits on the day he was recalled from Triple-A Jacksonville. Tyler, in his fifth big-league appearance of the year and 12th of his career, has only one victory (in 2022) in the major leagues but didn’t reach the five-inning mark required of the starter to add another.
Orioles starter Albert Suarez (5-4), pitching for the first time since July 11, lasted only two-plus innings. He was charged with six runs on eight hits and one walk. He left after taking a comebacker off his right foot. That happened one play after second baseman Jorge Mateo left with an injury after colliding with shortstop Gunnar Henderson on an infield single by Sanchez.
Ryan O’Hearn and Ryan Mountcastle both had two hits for Baltimore, which is 2-2 since the break. Orioles batters struck out 12 times.
The Orioles jumped out to a 1-0 lead on Jordan Westburg’s RBI single in the first inning. The Marlins drew even when Sanchez led off the second inning with his 12th home run of the season and his first in seven games.
Later in the inning, Gordon’s single drove in the go-ahead run, before Chisholm rapped a two-run double, giving him five runs batted in during a three-game stretch. It was Chisholm’s first double in more than 90 at-bats.
Baltimore was within 4-3 after third-inning RBI singles from O’Hearn and Colton Cowser. The Marlins countered in the bottom of the inning, scoring on Xavier Edwards’ sacrifice fly and Gordon’s groundout.
–Field Level Media
