NewzThe Pirates drop their 12th in their past 15 games in 8-2 loss against Marlins. MIAMI (AP) — Griffin Conine and Heriberto Hernández homered and Janson Junk worked six solid inning as the Miami Marlins extended their winning streak to four games with an 8-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night. Junk (6-7) allowed two runs, one earned, on four hits and a walk in six innings.
Tyler Zuber, Calvin Faucher and Victor Vodnik each pitched a scoreless inning of relief. He doubled leading off the third against Carmen Mlodzinski (6-5) with the game tied at 1. Hernández followed with a walk before Agustín Ramírez doubled for a 2-1 lead one out later.
That chased Mlodzinski, who was charged with four runs on five hits. Evan Sisk walked pinch-hitter Javier Sanoja to load the bases and hit Leo Jiménez with a pitch before walking Joe Mack to force in two more runs. Xavier Edwards hit a sacrifice fly for a 5-1 lead.
Sisk got two outs and yielded a run. Conine hit his 13th homer off former Marlins reliever Lake Bachar for a 6-2 lead in the fourth. Bachar, acquired at the trade deadline, walked Conine before Hernández’s 17th homer for a six-run advantage in the sixth.
The right-hander surrendered three runs on three hits in three innings. Nick Gonzalez singled and scored on a two-out throwing error by shortstop Otto Lopez to give Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead in the second. Edwards’ infield hit with two outs and the bases loaded tied it 1-all in the bottom of the inning.
It is the team’s best 62-game run at home since 2003, when it won its second World Series. The Marlins trail the Phillies and Diamondbacks by 1 1/2 games for the final NL wild card. Valdez added a sacrifice fly in the fourth for Pittsburgh, who have gone 1-7 since the trade deadline.
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