Streaking Pirates Top Marlins 3-2

Pittsburgh’s 1st 4-game winning streak since 2019

MIAMI (AP) -- Rookie Oneil Cruz hit a tiebreaking RBI triple and Jake Marisnick homered for the second straight game, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Miami Marlins 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Diego Castillo had two hits for the Pirates in their fourth straight victory. Pittsburgh is 14-6 against Miami since 2018.

"Everybody is motivated with the desire to win," Castillo said in Spanish. "And when a club maintains consistency, good things continue to happen."

Dillon Peters (5-2) got the win with 2 2/3 innings of one-run relief. The left-hander was activated from the injured list Tuesday.

"I felt good, I worked hard while I was injured," Peters said. "I knew I definitely had some length in me today. Like I said, however long, let's go."

Cruz made it 2-1 when he tripled home Castillo in the fifth. Cruz then scored on Jason Delay's single against Daniel Castano.

Miami got one back on Nick Fortes' RBI single in the bottom of the fifth. But Tyler Beede and Wil Crowe combined for three perfect innings before All-Star David Bednar worked the ninth for his 16th save.

Castano allowed five hits, struck out three and walked none in five innings.

Marisnick put Pittsburgh in front with his leadoff shot in the third. Miami tied it in the bottom half on Joey Wendle's sacrifice fly.

Chris Stratton threw 2 1/3 innings of one-run ball in a bullpen game for the Pirates.

It was Stratton's first start after 161 relief appearances. He last started for the Los Angeles Angels on April 23, 2019.

Getting through the first inning on nine pitches enabled Stratton to pitch into the third.

"I think the fact we were able to push him into that third inning was really important for us," Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. "He hadn't gone three-ups in a while."

After Fortes' hit in the fifth, Miami didn't have another batter reach base until Jesus Aguilar's two-out single against Bednar.

"Bullpen days, they seem to go one way or the other," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. "Either they go really good or they go really bad. Tonight, it went pretty good for them."

Marlins first baseman Garrett Cooper exited in the sixth after fouling a pitch off his left knee. Cooper was added to the NL All-Star team on Tuesday, replacing Philadelphia slugger Bryce Harper at designated hitter.

"It's swollen," Cooper said. "Hopefully in a day or two I'll be good. Nothing broken. That's all that matters."

WORTH THE WAIT

Before the game, Marlins catcher Jacob Stallings received his 2021 Gold Glove. Mattingly and Shelton, Stallings' current and former managers, flanked him during the brief ceremony. The occasion coincided with the Pirates' only series in Miami this season. Stallings spent the first five years of his career in Pittsburgh, culminated by the Gold Glove-winning season.

ROSTER MOVE

The Pirates optioned right-hander Eric Stout to Triple-A Indianapolis. Stout appeared in two games with Pittsburgh after being acquired in a trade with the Chicago Cubs on June 21.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Marlins: LHP Jesus Luzardo (left forearm strain) was scheduled to throw two innings of batting practice Tuesday at the club's spring training facility.

UP NEXT

RHP JT Brubaker (2-8, 4.34 ERA) starts the third game of the series for the Pirates on Wednesday against Marlins RHP Pablo Lopez (6-4, 2.91 ERA).

GUARDIANS 4, WHITE SOX 1 GAME 1

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Shane Bieber pitched a three-hitter for his first complete game this year and Jose Ramirez and Amed Rosario drove in two runs apiece, sending Cleveland past Chicago in a doubleheader opener.

Bieber (4-5) struck out seven and walked none. He had been 0-2 in six starts since winning at Baltimore on June 3, the longest winless streak of his big league career.

Rosario had a pair of RBI doubles off Davis Martin (1-3), driving in Austin Hedges in the third and Myles Straw in the fifth.

WHITE SOX 7, GUARDIANS 0

GAME 2

Dylan Cease struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-0 for a doubleheader split. Jose Abreu, Luis Robert and Josh Harrison homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of six before its sorely needed victory in the nightcap. Cease allowed five hits and walked three.

RAYS 3, RED SOX 2

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Chris Sale worked five scoreless innings in his season debut, but the Boston bullpen couldn't hold a two-run lead in a 3-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.

Sale, out all season with a fracture in his right rib cage, allowed three hits with one walk and struck out five. The lefty reached 97 mph on his fastball during a 78-pitch, 53-strike outing.

Corey Kluber (5-5) allowed two runs and four hits in six innings to beat the Red Sox in consecutive starts.

The Rays went up 3-2 in the sixth when pinch-hitter Francisco Mejía had an RBI single off Matt Strahm (3-3). Two more runs scored when the Red Sox made two errors on the same play.

Brooks Raley worked the ninth for his fifth save in six chances.

BLUE JAYS 4, PHILLIES 3

TORONTO (AP) -- Jose Berrios matched his career high by striking out 13 over six innings, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had four hits and Toronto snapped a four-game losing streak.

Berríos (7-4) allowed three runs and six hits, improving to 5-0 in eight home starts. Jordan Romano finished for his 19th save in 22 chances.

Gurriel singled in the second, doubled and scored in the third, doubled home the go-ahead run in the sixth and singled in the eighth.

Jeurys Familia (1-1) allowed one run and four hits in 1 1/3 innings as Philadelphia lost its third straight.