Marlins beat – Owen Caissie came one step short of the cycle, driving in the go-ahead run as the Miami Marlins edged the San Francisco Giants 4-3 on Friday night.
MIAMI — Owen Caissie rounded third with the kind of balance you only see when a night keeps slipping away from perfection. The Canadian was a triple shy of the cycle, but he still found the moment that mattered most.
Caissie delivered a go-ahead sacrifice fly and helped the Miami Marlins hold on for a 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night. Javier Sanoja finished with two hits and scored twice for Miami, which entered the game riding a major league-best 12-4 record in June.
The Giants made their push after the Marlins took control in the middle innings. In the seventh, Giants reliever Sam Hentges (1-2) hit Esteury Ruiz with a pitch leading off the frame. Sanoja singled, and Liam Hicks followed with a tying single that moved Sanoja to third. Sanoja came home on Caissie’s flyball to deep left field, putting Miami back in front.
From there, the Marlins didn’t make it easy for themselves. They used eight pitchers in a bullpen game. Cade Gibson (1-0) retired all four batters he faced for the win. Calvin Faucher came on to handle the last two outs in the eighth. and Pete Fairbanks finished with a perfect ninth for his 10th save this season and the 100th of his career.
Miami had grabbed an early advantage through Caissie. He gave the Marlins their first lead with a solo homer in the first inning. It was his eighth of the season, a cutter from Landen Roupp driven over the wall in center.
The Giants answered in the second when Daniel Susac delivered a sacrifice fly to tie it at 1-1. Then in the sixth, Rafael Devers’ homer for San Francisco against Michael Petersen leading off the inning made it 2-all.
Jung Hoo Lee added pressure immediately after that, doubling and scoring on Casey Schmitt’s go-ahead single.
Still, Miami regained the rhythm. Caissie’s run-scoring double in the fifth put the Marlins ahead 2-1, and the later insurance run came on the same patient timing that defined the evening for him.
Roupp, the Giants’ starter, worked six innings, allowing two runs and seven hits over 98 pitches. He struck out seven and is winless in eight outings since April 26, when he completed 7 2/3 innings in a 6-3 home victory against the Marlins.
San Francisco had more chances earlier, too. The second inning saw Marlins opener Lake Bachar allow consecutive singles to Willy Adames, Schmitt and Drew Gilbert before Susac hit a drive to the warning track in left that Kyle Stowers tracked down.
The result sets up another matchup on Saturday. RHP Trevor McDonald (2-4, 4.64 ERA) starts for the Giants against Marlins RHP Max Meyer (7-0, 2.75).
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4-3?? that’s basically nothing lol.
I don’t even know who Caissie is but a sacrifice fly sounds like cheating somehow. Also 12-4 in June is wild, like are they always this stacked?
Wait so the Marlins lost first then he hit a homer then a double then a fly? baseball is confusing. I swear it feels like the Giants were winning in the middle innings, and then the bullpen game took over like always. Pete Fairbanks got his 100th save?? that number is gonna make me feel old.
Baseball writers love saying “Canadian” like that matters. I looked it up and Owen Caissie sounds like he should be on the Blue Jays or something. Anyway the part about the reliever hitting someone with a pitch… why does nobody mention if that changed the whole vibe? Eight pitchers too, that’s just sloppy managing, right?