Miami 11, Atlanta 3
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, September 5, 2014
Where: Marlins Park, Miami, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Jerry Layne, 1B -
Hunter Wendelstedt, 2B -
Mike Estabrook, 3B -
Sean Barber
Attendance:
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Marlins 11, Braves 3: Marcell Ozuna went 4-for-5 with four RBIs while Donovan Solano also recorded four hits and scored three times as host Miami crushed Atlanta in the series opener.
Ozuna and Solano each tied a career high in hits as the Marlins collected a season-high 18, finishing 10-for-21 with runners in scoring position. Jarred Cosart (13-8), who beat the Braves with seven scoreless innings on Saturday, took a shutout into the seventh and finished having allowed three runs and five hits with six strikeouts in 7 2/3 frames.
Aaron Harang (10-10) lasted only 3 2/3 innings, giving up six runs and 10 hits as the Braves lost for the fourth time in six contests to drop one game behind Milwaukee for the second National League wild-card spot and remain seven in back of first-place Washington in the East Division. Freddie Freeman hit his 18th homer, a solo shot leading off the seventh, while Jason Heyward and Andrelton Simmons also drove in a run apiece in the eighth.
Casey McGehee and Ozuna delivered back-to-back RBI singles as Miami, which trails Milwaukee by five games, scored two runs on four hits against Harang in the first. Giancarlo Stanton singled, stole second and scored on Ozuna’s double to left-center field in the third, and Justin Bour’s two-base hit off the center-field wall brought in Ozuna to make it 4-0.
Cosart and Solano singled in the fourth, and Stanton’s two-out double to center plated two runs to push Miami’s advantage to 6-0 and end Harang's night. Cosart allowed a second-inning single by Evan Gattis, then retired the next 13 hitters en route to improving to 4-1 with a 1.99 ERA in six starts since being acquired from Houston.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Solano also recorded four hits against the Braves on July 22 and is 15-for-35 versus Atlanta this season. … Harang is 1-4 with a 6.92 ERA in his last five starts, allowing 41 hits in 27 1/3 innings. … Stanton added two hits and drove in a pair of runs to boost his major league-leading RBI total to 104.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Atlanta
|
5 |
1 |
9 |
.156 |
7 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Miami
|
18 |
0 |
23 |
.474 |
18 |
6 |
11 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
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