


David Peralta blasts a long home run, then admires it.
5/5/16
Miami, FL (AP) – The Arizona Diamondbacks rallied for a late 4-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Thursday evening at Marlin Park to win the rubber match of their three game midweek series in South Florida. The win kept the DBacks in a first place tie with red-hot San Francisco in the National League West.
Giancarlo Stanton got the Marlins off to a good start, hitting a long solo home run to left in the bottom of the first inning off of Archie Bradley. It was Stanton's eighth on the year.
Arizona responded immediately as David Peralta hit a moon shot to center, tying the game at 1-1 in the top of the second. Nick Ahmed would put the DBacks in front as he grounded out to Adienny Hechavarria with men on second and third, allowing Welington Castillo to score.
Miami would tie the game in the bottom of the third inning with an unearned run. Justin Bour hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Christian Yelich. Yelich had reached third on a bunt single and throwing error by Phil Gosselin.
The game would remain tied into the ninth. With both starters long gone, the bullpen would decide this one. Welington Castillo reached first on a throwing error by Derek Dietrich, who had just entered the game in a double switch, to open the ninth. Chris Owings pinch ran. He advanced on a ground out to Hechavarria, then scored on a two-out pinch hit double from Chris Herrmann. Herrmann would score a big insurance run on an A.J. Pollock double to make it 4-2.
Brad Zeigler came on to close this one out and struggled, loading the bases with just one out. He gave up a sacrifice fly to Dee Gordon, then got Christian Yelich to fly out to the warning track in left to end the game.
The win gave the DBacks their seventh straight series win as they head to Atlanta for a three game series with the Braves.





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