Prado's homer powers Marlins past Phillies
PHILADELPHIA -- Martin Prado led off the top of the 11th inning with a home run as the Miami Marlins beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Monday night.
The Marlins, who scored twice in the ninth off Phillies closer Jeanmar Gomez to tie it, won for the sixth time in seven games.
Tommy Joseph homered for the Phillies, who lost for the third time in four games.
Prado's homer, his third of the season, came on a 2-0 fastball from Brett Oberholtzer, the sixth Philadelphia pitcher.
Reliever Kyle Barraclough (6-2) pitched a scoreless inning to earn the victory for Miami. A.J. Ramos who earned his 30th save by working a perfect 11th, retired Maikel Franco on a fly ball to the center field wall for the game's final out.
Oberholtzer fell to 2-2.
The Marlins, shut out by struggling right-hander Aaron Nola and two relievers through eight innings, broke through against Gomez in the ninth.
Christian Yelich's two-out RBI double delivered the first run. After Gomez walked Giancarlo Stanton, with ball four also a wild pitch, Marcell Ozuna blooped a run-scoring single to center.
It was Gomez's third blown save in 28 opportunities.
The game began as a duel between Nola and Marlins All-Star Jose Fernandez, both of whom wound up being saddled with no-decisions.
Fernandez matched his career high of 14 strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings, the 16th time in his career he has fanned more than 10 in a game.
Fernandez struck out Cody Asche three times and fanned everyone in the Phillies' starting lineup except Cesar Hernandez at least once. Fernandez's strikeout of Asche in the fourth was the 500th of his career, in his 65th start. According to CSNPhilly.com, only two pitchers have reached that milestone more quickly since 1900 -- Doc Gooden, who did so in his 62nd start, and Yu Darvish, who did so in his 61st.
Nola, however, combined with two relievers to limit the Marlins to two hits over the first eight innings.
Nola went the first six, allowing both hits while striking out five and walking one. He had not pitched since July 2 while attempting to regain his form following a five-start stretch in which he went 0-4 with a 13.50 ERA, but he retired 15 of the first 16 hitters he faced Monday
He was struck on the right shoulder by a line drive off the bat of Adeiny Hechavarria with one out in the sixth, a ball that went for an infield single. Nola walked J.T. Realmuto to put two aboard later in the inning, but retired Prado to escape the jam.
Edubray Ramos replaced Nola to start the seventh and retired all three hitters he faced. Hector Neris did the same in the eighth.
Philadelphia's Odubel Herrera led off the bottom of the first by grounding a double inside the third-base line, then took third when Realmuto threw to first after a dropped third strike following Fernandez's strikeout of Peter Bourjos.
Maikel Franco then drove Herrera in with an infield bouncer. Joseph, leading off the seventh, hit Fernandez's first pitch into the left-field seats, the rookie's 12th homer in 48 games with the Phillies this season.
By Gordie Jones, The Sports Xchange
PHILADELPHIA -- Martin Prado led off the top of the 11th inning with a home run as the Miami Marlins beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 on Monday night.
The Marlins, who scored twice in the ninth off Phillies closer Jeanmar Gomez to tie it, won for the sixth time in seven games.
Tommy Joseph homered for the Phillies, who lost for the third time in four games.
Prado's homer, his third of the season, came on a 2-0 fastball from Brett Oberholtzer, the sixth Philadelphia pitcher.
Reliever Kyle Barraclough (6-2) pitched a scoreless inning to earn the victory for Miami. A.J. Ramos who earned his 30th save by working a perfect 11th, retired Maikel Franco on a fly ball to the center field wall for the game's final out.
Oberholtzer fell to 2-2.
The Marlins, shut out by struggling right-hander Aaron Nola and two relievers through eight innings, broke through against Gomez in the ninth.
Christian Yelich's two-out RBI double delivered the first run. After Gomez walked Giancarlo Stanton, with ball four also a wild pitch, Marcell Ozuna blooped a run-scoring single to center.
It was Gomez's third blown save in 28 opportunities.
The game began as a duel between Nola and Marlins All-Star Jose Fernandez, both of whom wound up being saddled with no-decisions.
Fernandez matched his career high of 14 strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings, the 16th time in his career he has fanned more than 10 in a game.
Fernandez struck out Cody Asche three times and fanned everyone in the Phillies' starting lineup except Cesar Hernandez at least once. Fernandez's strikeout of Asche in the fourth was the 500th of his career, in his 65th start. According to CSNPhilly.com, only two pitchers have reached that milestone more quickly since 1900 -- Doc Gooden, who did so in his 62nd start, and Yu Darvish, who did so in his 61st.
Nola, however, combined with two relievers to limit the Marlins to two hits over the first eight innings.
Nola went the first six, allowing both hits while striking out five and walking one. He had not pitched since July 2 while attempting to regain his form following a five-start stretch in which he went 0-4 with a 13.50 ERA, but he retired 15 of the first 16 hitters he faced Monday
He was struck on the right shoulder by a line drive off the bat of Adeiny Hechavarria with one out in the sixth, a ball that went for an infield single. Nola walked J.T. Realmuto to put two aboard later in the inning, but retired Prado to escape the jam.
Edubray Ramos replaced Nola to start the seventh and retired all three hitters he faced. Hector Neris did the same in the eighth.
Philadelphia's Odubel Herrera led off the bottom of the first by grounding a double inside the third-base line, then took third when Realmuto threw to first after a dropped third strike following Fernandez's strikeout of Peter Bourjos.
Maikel Franco then drove Herrera in with an infield bouncer. Joseph, leading off the seventh, hit Fernandez's first pitch into the left-field seats, the rookie's 12th homer in 48 games with the Phillies this season.
NOTES: MLB.com's Joe Frisaro tweeted on Monday that the Marlins are interested in trading for Phillies RHP Jeremy Hellickson, who is 6-7 with a 4.03 ERA heading into Wednesday's scheduled start against Miami. Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said he has no idea what to expect at the Aug. 1 non-waiver trade deadline, and doesn't have a "constant dialogue" with the front office about such matters. "I've read where there's interest in Hellickson and there might be interest in some other players," he said, "but it's so much out of my hands I don't even worry about it." ... Marlins RF Ichiro Suzuki, six hits away from 3,000 in his major league career, entered the game as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning and remained in the lineup, going 0-for-1 with a walk. He also had 1,278 hits in his native Japan.