The Marlins kept rolling in Denver on Monday night, riding a pair of home runs from Otto Lopez and Griffin Conine and another strong outing from Sandy Alcantara to a 10-7 comeback win over the Rockies at Coors Field.
Miami has now won 19 of 25 in June, the best mark in baseball, and the club matched the second-most victories it has ever had in a month. It also became the third team this season to reach 19 wins in a month, joining the Braves and Brewers.
The night started with Miami jumping ahead. In the second inning, Heriberto Hernández opened with a double, Kyle Stowers was hit by a pitch, and Leo Jiménez cashed them in with a double off the right-center-field wall. Jiménez entered the game with just one RBI through his first 93 plate appearances this season.
That lead didn’t last long. Colorado sent eight batters to the plate in the bottom of the inning and erased the deficit, helped by Ezequiel Tovar’s sacrifice fly and then a costly play when Jake McCarthy lifted a ball deep to left that bounced out of Esteury Ruiz’s glove and turned into two runs. By the time the Rockies stretched the margin to 5-2, the Marlins had work to do.
They answered in a big way in the fifth.
Lopez led off the inning with a homer, giving him an MLB-leading 35th multihit game of the season. After Colorado removed left-hander Sean Sullivan for right-hander Victor Vodnik, Clayton McCullough went to Griffin Conine off the bench.
Conine, who made his Major League debut at Coors Field on Aug. 26, 2024, turned around a changeup and sent it off the facing of the third deck for a three-run blast. It was the Marlins’ third pinch-hit homer of the season.
Miami kept the pressure on in the seventh, when Javier Sanoja ripped a bases-clearing triple and Joe Mack followed with an RBI single. Sanoja finished the night a homer short of the cycle.
All of that support backed Alcantara, who finished June unbeaten at 6-0 with a 3.37 ERA in six starts. It was his career-best sixth straight win, and he joined José Fernández and Chris Hammond as the only Marlins to win six games in a month. The last Marlin to be credited with a win in six or more straight appearances was Fernández in 2016.
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