Marlins 7, Giants 5. Miami sent Henderson Alvarez to take on Yusmeiro Petit of the Giants. Both are kind of mediocre (although Alvarez is both better and younger), and they nearly had the same claim to fame: Petit came one out away from a no-hitter last year, while Alvarez successfully threw one.
Neither starter was in any danger of blowing a no-hitter late in this one. Christian Yelich led off the top of the first with a home run, and singles by Angel Pagan and Hunter Pence, a double play from Buster Posey, and a Pablo Sandoval double combined to tie the game for the Giants. Both pitchers allowed lone hits in the second (to Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Brandon Crawford, respectively), but the Marlins were the next team to score when Yelich reached on an error and Derek Dietrich homered in the top of the third.
Miami extended its lead in the fourth when Garrett Jones doubled, Saltalamacchia singled, and Adeiny Hechevarria added a sac fly (Saltalamacchia and Hechevarria has to be the most polysyllabic pair of back-to-back hitters in baseball history). San Francisco picked up two in the bottom of the inning on a Sandoval double, a Mike Morse single, a Crawford sac fly, and a Brandon Hicks double. A single-and-steal by Yelich and a single by Casey McGehee pushed the Marlin lead to 5-3 in the fifth, but the Giants closed within one again when Pagan doubled and came around on a pair of flyouts.
Petit was pulled in the top of the sixth, and David Huff allowed singles to the Marlin battery (Saltalamacchia and Alvarez) before stranding them. Morse led off the bottom of the inning with a single, Hicks reached on an error two outs later, and pinch hitter Gregor Blanco singled to tie the game at 5.
Jean Machi and AJ Ramos both had easy times of it in the seventh. Machi also recorded the first out of the eighth before Jeremy Affeldt replaced him; Affeldt immediately gave up singles to Jones and Saltalamacchia, and Santiago Casilla walked Hechevarria to load the bases before getting pinch hitter Ed Lucas to hit into an inning-ending double play. Mike Dunn allowed a Tyler Colvin double with one out in the eighth, and left the runner at second.
Yelich drew a leadoff walk in the ninth, and Dietrich singled. One out later, McGehee singled in the go-ahead run; Javier Lopez relieved with two outs and gave up an RBI hit to Jones. Hector Sanchez drew a leadoff walk from Steve Cishek in the bottom of the ninth before being left on first as the next three hitters were retired to end the game.
This was the fifth four-hit game of Jarrod Saltalamacchia's career, which is more than I would have expected. Somehow, he managed to have four hits in a game in which his team scored seven runs, yet did not score or drive in a single run all game long. The run-scoring duties were blatantly hogged by Christian Yelich, who scored a career-high four times, three of which were go-ahead runs. Throw in three other multi-hit games (Derek Dietrich, Casey McGehee, and Garrett Jones), and the Marlins were able to put up 7 and win the game even though Giancarlo Stanton went 0 for 5.
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