Sandy Alcantara covered eight innings to end Miami’s eight-game losing streak, the longest for the Marlins in six years, with a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.
Venezuela’s Jesús Aguilar delivered a solo deep home run and a sacrifice fly for Miami. With the blow he reached 12 in the 2021 season of Major League Baseball (MLB), while he continues to lead the National League in RBIs with 43.
Alcantara (3-5) allowed one run and six hits, striking out six. The 25-year-old right-hander received a double from Adam Frazier early in the eighth inning, but retired the next three batters in order to close out his performance.
It’s the second time in his last three starts that Alcantara has stayed eight innings on the mound.
The previous time the Marlins stacked eight setbacks was May 15-22, 2015.
In the first three games of this series they squandered two leads in the eighth, a one-run lead in Thursday’s 5-3 loss and a three-touchdown lead before falling 8-7 in 12 innings on Saturday.
Closer Yimi Garcia pitched a perfect ninth to reach 10 saves this season.
Orioles scored 18 runs
Cedric Mullins homered to start the game as part of a three-hit session and the Baltimore Orioles scored the most runs since 2015 and a season-high of 21 hits to beat the Cleveland Indians 18-5 on Sunday.
Baltimore started the day 24th in scoring among the 30 major league teams. He finished the afternoon with the most streaks since defeating the Oakland Athletics 18-2 on August 16, 2015.
After losing their last 14 games in May, Orioles is 4-1 in June and won two of three against Minnesota to start a stay at home.
Mexican Ramón Urías also hit a home run for Baltimore, which won consecutive series at home for the first time since he did so between May 8 and 13, 2018, when the birds took two of three games against the Kansas City Royals and three. out of four off Tampa Bay Manta Rays.
Venezuelans
For Orioles, Venezuelans Anthony Santander 5-3 with two runs scored and three RBIs; and Freddy Galvis 5-2 with a score and an RBI.
Barcelona / José Barberi Jr.
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