Marlins salvage finale with one run win 5-4

By Jeremy Kahn

AP photo: The San Francisco Giants reliever Josh Osich got touched up for a home run by the Marlins JT Realmuto in the eighth inning of Sunday’s game at AT&T Park

SAN FRANCISCO-With his career-high tying fourth and final hit of the afternoon, JT Realmuto gave the Miami Marlins huge lift.

Realmuto hit a solo home run off of Josh Osich in the top of the eighth inning, helping the Marlins to a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants before a crowd of 41,509, the 419th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

It was the second time in as many seasons that Realmuto pickup four hits in the same game, as he did it on June 5, 2015 against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.

The home run gave the victory to Kyle Barraclough, who picked up his first win of the season, while Osich lost for the first time during the 2016 season. AJ Ramos, despite giving up a single to Hunter Pence in the bottom of the ninth inning got Trevor Brown to ground into a force play to end the game.

Matt Cain gave up four runs on 10 hits, while walking two and striking out four and also gave up a long home run to Giancarlo Stanton.

“I felt good, I thought that Brownie good job mixing it up,” said Cain. “To get through that it what you are supposed to do,” said Cain (about the fifth inning).

Stanton hit his fourth home run of the season, as he led off the fourth inning to give the Marlins a short-lived 2-1 lead.

Pence tied the game up in the bottom of the fourth inning, as he hit a home run to straightaway centerfield for his third home run of the season.

The Giants got on the board in the bottom of the second inning, as Brown walked, advanced to second on a Brandon Crawford single and then scored on a Gregor Blanco single to centerfield.

Dee Gordon tied up the game in the top of the third inning, as he singled to center and then stole second and third. Christian Yelich then drove in Gordon when grounded into a Fielders’ Choice.

Yelich gave the Marlins the lead again in the top of the fifth inning, as he hit into his second Fielders’ Choice of the afternoon to once again score Gordon.

Angel Pagan reached on a Miguel Rojas fielding error in the bottom of the fifth, went to second on a Panik single and then trying to score the tying run at the plate, he was tagged out by Realmuto on a great throw from Yelich in left field.

Rojas then gave the Marlins a two-run lead in the top of the sixth inning, when he hit a sacrifice fly to score Derek Dietrich from third after Dietrich singled to lead off the inning, then advanced to third on a Realmuto double.

That two-run lead would last a half-inning, as Brandon Belt, in a pinch hitting role singled in Pence, who walked to leadoff the inning. Pagan then tied up the game, as he singled to left field to score Blanco.

After Realmuto hit his home run in the top of the eighth inning, the Giants loaded the bases with nobody out, but Pagan hit into a double play and then Panik struck out looking.

“It was a good pitch, you’re not happy about it, in that situation you need to get runs,” said Panik.

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