Marlins Escape Giants

     The Miami Marlins collected two runs in the top of the ninth to defeat the San Francisco Giants 7-5 at AT&T Park on Friday night. The Fish, currently 3-6 on the 11-game road trip, moved up to 5-16 on the road this year.
     It took the first batter for Miami(22-21) to get the lead in the top of the first. Christian Yelich smashed a lead-off homer against Yusmeiro Petit to center field on a 3-1 pitch for his fifth home run this season.
     In the bottom of the first, San Francisco(27-16) tied it at 1-1 against Henderson Alvarez. Angel Pagan led off with a single to left and three batters later Pablo Sandoval knocked him in on a double into left field.
     The Marlins added two more runs in the third inning. Yelich reached base with one out on an erroe by shortstop Brandon Crawford. Derek Dietrich came up and blasted a two-run dinger to right field on the first pitch for his fifth homer of the year.
     The Fish made it 4-1 in the top of the fourth when Adeiny Hechavarria got an RBI-sacrifice fly to center field to score Garrett Jones, who earlier his a one-out double earlier in the frame.
     The Giants cut the lead down to one run in the bottom of the fourth. Crawford hit a sacrifice fly to center for Sandoval to score and Brandon Hicks followed with an RBI-double into left as Michael Morse crossed the plate.
     Yelich would score again when Casey McGehee drove him in on a two-out base hit to center field in the top of the fifth for a 5-3 lead.
     A quick response was made by the Giants in the bottom of the frame. Pagan doubled to left-center field, advanced to third on a fly out to right by Hunter Pence and scored on a sacrifice fly by Buster Posey to right.
     San Francisco tied the contest 5-5 during the sixth inning. Morse scored from second with two outs as pinch-hitter Gregor Blanco singled into right field.
     Santiago Casilla pitched the ninth inning against the Fish. Yelich walked then went to second Dietrich when he singled to left. After Giancarlo Stanton struck out, McGehee knocked in the go-ahead run on a base hit to right for Yelich to score his fourth run of the game. Two batters later, Dietrich made it 7-5 as Jones picked up an infield base hit off Javier Lopez.