Gordon’s double in the 11th lifts Miami to 4-3 win

Nonetheless, the Marlins had won 12 of 20 and were facing rookie Alec Asher, the first Phillies starter to lose each of his first four career starts since Andy Ashby in 1991.

Harang pitched at least seven innings and allowed three runs or fewer for the second time in the last four months.

Marlins: LHP Adam Conley (4-1, 4.22) will look for similar results as his last start when he pitched seven scoreless innings in a win at the New York Mets on September 16. If that isn’t enough incentive, the Phillies can help officially eliminate the underachieving Nationals this weekend. The Marlins have 40 losses at Marlins Park this year and need to win the next three games to accomplish the feat.

The inning featured two hits and a walk but Cosart escaped unscathed, with another out recorded when Realmuto threw out Aaron Altherr attempting to steal.

“It was a struggle from pitch one”, Koehler said. “That’s the main goal”, he said. “I know I started 0-4, and I didn’t want to start my career like that. I had to battle through those whole five innings”.

Gordon’s walk-off double in the 11th inning halted a four-game losing streak for Miami, which goes for a series victory over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday in the rubber match of a three-game set. He appeared more confident and more “in charge”, Mackanin said. “Plus, maybe we have to get him in the lineup – he got two hits”. “As poor as his numbers are, it shows me a lot that he came out there like he had a objective. When you get a pitch to drive, it’s important to drive it at this level”. “He always has the right thing to say to make you laugh”. And obviously he’s not giving up.

Unfortunately, by this point, the Phillies had not bothered to score for him either, so J.T. Realmuto’s RBI triple that scored Derek Dietrich (only the third hit Asher allowed) was the deathblow, making it 1-0. They were only the Marlins’ second and third hits of the game.

“I kind of was a little passive my first two at-bats on pitches to hit so I just wanted to get something early in the count, a good pitch to hit, and he left one over the middle of the plate and I was able to put a good swing on it”, Realmuto said.

It was the 13th time that the Phils have been shut out this season. They mustered only five hits.

Philadelphia Phillies’ Cody Asche, right, watches his single in… “Tonight he got the head out on that one ball and hit the two-run homer”.

To reach the extra innings, the teams had traded off a pair of solo runs each, the Phillies scoring one in the top of the 5th and 8th, the Fish in the bottom of the 2nd and 4th. “[I sound like] a broken record”, Mackanin said.

No one is asking the Phillies to win anymore games, but you get the distinct impression that they might not, even if you begged them.