Marlins End Scoreless Streak

    The Miami Marlins broke their franchise record for most consecutive innings without a run as they pulled off a 9-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Marlins Park on Wednesday afternoon. Miami heads to Colorado and play the Rockies on Thursday to begin an 11-game road trip.
    For the third time in baseball history, it was a game that two starting pitchers had once pitched a perfect game and another no-hitter in their careers. It was done twice before in 1966 between Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Jim Bunning of the Phillies.
    Roy Halladay, who threw his perfect game against the Marlins in May 2010, dropped to 6-7 as he struck out seven and allowed three runs on six hits in seven innings pitched. Mark Buerhle(10-11) picked up the win for Miami as he went seven innings and surrendered two runs on five hits.
    The Marlins ended their scoreless streak of 30 innings in the fourth. Carlos Lee led off with a walk and advanced to third on a double by Giancarlo Stanton to deep left field. Former Phillie Greg Dobbs lined a single into right field to score Lee. Donovan Solano followed with an RBI-sacrifice fly into the left field corner which brought in Stanton.
    Ty Wigginton broke the shutout with a lead-off solo home run to left field on a 0-1 pitch in the fifth inning. It was his tenth homer this season and third career round-tripper off Buerhle.
    The Phillies tied the game on a two-out rally in the sixth inning. Kevin Frandsen reached base on an infield single and Chase Utley walked. Wigginton knocked in Frandsen on a single into left field.
    Miami responded in the bottom of the frame to retake the lead 3-2. Dobbs blasted a two-out solo homer on the first pitch to right field for his fourth home run this year.
    The Marlins batted around and put up six runs in the eighth inning. Jose Reyes walked and went to third on a single into center field by Lee. Stanton stroked a single to left field off B.J. Rosenberg and knocked in Reyes.
    Four batters later and two out, Austin Kearns came in to pinch-hit with the bases loaded against Michael Schwimer. Kearns looped a two-run single into shallow left and drove in Lee and Stanton. Kearns advanced to second on the play. Solano and Kearns crossed the plate on a double by Bryan Petersen to left-center. Gorkys Hernandez laced a single into center for Petersen to score.