Wong’s Two Errors Lead to Cardinals Loss, 6-4 to Marlins

He’ll try to keep it all rolling next time out in San Diego.

David Phelps’ homecoming was short and not so sweet, but the Marlins’ bullpen provided a pick-me-up and helped the team get out of town with its first win of the season against the Cardinals. Lackey balked home a run in the second but got it back in the bottom half with a two-out broken-bat single for his second RBI of the season. The bedrock of their success cracked.

“I think both of them were just first-pitch fastballs down and away”, loser Brad Hand said. “It can be if that’s what it takes”. He also pitched a shutout, striking out 14 and allowing three hits in the complete-game performance. For the most part, our pitching and defense have been staples. “We need a closer look to make sure it is something he can play though”, manager Mike Matheny said. In improving to 5-4, Garcia lowered his already tiny ERA to 1.57 and has to be in the discussion for a playoff start.

With a single Friday night in the Miami Marlins’ 3-1 loss to St. Louis, Ichiro Suzuki kept moving up the all-time charts. The right-handed Martinez will take the mound against the Marlins, who have a 36-54 record against righty starters this season.

It was Mathis’ grounder that set the game-changing inning into motion. He also drove in Hechavarria with a squeeze bunt in the fifth. Home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi called Hechavarria out.

Heyward connected in his first two at-bats against Phelps for his sixth career multihomer game and his first since August. 17, 2013, for Atlanta at Washington.

The left-handed-hitting left fielder Dietrich, who entered with 11 RBI in 50 games this year, cleared the bases with a go-ahead triple into the right-field corner. He wouldn’t have gotten the chance without the error or the replay.

“I feel a little sense of relief”, he said. Although he’s successfully lobbied in the past, he just gave up the ball. “Just one of those tough team games”.

Suzuki has been only a part-time player for Miami this season, the 41-year-old Asian star managing 69 hits over 109 games.

In Toronto, Carlos Beltran hit a huge home run in the eighth inning, Andrew Miller escaped a big jam in the ninth and New York stopped the Blue Jays’ 11-game winning streak. The Miami Marlins have lost six of their last seven road games.