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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Miami 6, St. Louis 5
When: 7:10 PM ET, Monday, August 11, 2014
Where: Marlins Park, Miami, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Cory Blaser, 1B - Jim Joyce, 2B - Pat Hoberg, 3B - Doug Eddings
Attendance: 21144

Marlins 6, Cardinals 5: Giancarlo Stanton blasted his National League-best 30th and 31st home runs to power host Miami past St. Louis in the opener of a three-game series.

Christian Yelich went 3-for-4 with an RBI and scored twice for the Marlins, who climbed within 4 1/2 games of the Cardinals in the National League wild-card race. Miami starter Tom Koehler (8-9) went five-plus innings, allowing three runs and eight hits, to snap a two-start losing streak, and Steve Cishek gave up two runs in a rocky ninth before holding on for his 30th save.

St. Louis starter Shelby Miller (8-9) was tagged for five runs and eight hits in five innings. Matt Holliday went 4-for-4 and Jon Jay hit a two-run homer for the Cardinals, who slipped 2 1/2 games behind National League Central leader Milwaukee.

Stanton staked the Marlins to an early 3-0 lead, driving a two-run shot to the opposite field in the first and cranking a solo blast to left-center in third. St. Louis pulled even in the fourth, getting on the board on A.J. Pierzynski's RBI single and tying it on Jay's two-run blast.

Miami regained the lead in the bottom of the inning as Adeiny Hechavarria tripled home a run and scored on Yelich's RBI single, and Yelich scampered home with an insurance run on Pierzynski's throwing error in the seventh. Kolten Wong tripled in a run and scored on Holliday's two-out infield single in the ninth as St. Louis put the tying run on base before Cishek struck out Matt Adams to end it.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Stanton has homered in four of his last five games. … Stanton has 13 career multi-homer games, surpassing Hanley Ramirez (12) for the franchise mark. … The Cardinals have homered in five straight games, tying their longest streak of the season.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
St. Louis   Miami
Shelby Miller Player Tom Koehler
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 5.0
5 Strikeouts 5
8 Hits 8
9.00 ERA 5.40
Hitting
St. Louis   Miami
Matt Holliday Player Christian Yelich
4 Hits 3
1 RBI 1
0 HR 0
6 TB 4
1.000 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
St. Louis 12 1 19 .324 21 8 5 3 0 1
Miami 11 2 21 .333 12 10 5 2 2 0