Eury Perez struck out seven batters over six strong innings, leading the host Miami Marlins to a 5-3 win over the Brewers on Sunday afternoon.
Perez (2-1) allowed just three hits, one walk and one run, none earned, and Pete Fairbanks pitched a scoreless ninth for his third save. Miami snapped its four-game losing streak.
Jacob Misiorowski (1-2) took the loss, lasting five innings and allowing four hits, three walks and three runs, one earned. He struck out nine.
Milwaukee had its season-best four-game win streak snapped.
Miami started quickly, forcing Misiorowski to throw 29 pitches during a three-run first inning that included some bad luck for the pitcher.
Jakob Marsee drew a full-count walk, Xavier Edwards stroked a broken-bat single, and Otto Lopez reached on a fielding error by shortstop David Hamilton, loading the bases.
Then, Marlins All-Star left fielder Kyle Stowers — in his first at-bat of the season after starting the year sidelined due to a strained hamstring — saw eight pitches. Catcher Gary Sanchez failed to get his body in front of a curveball in the dirt, and it resulted in a wild pitch and a 1-0 score. Then, Stowers was hit on his right hand by a 102-mph fastball, reloading the bases. Despite the pain, Stowers remained in the game.
From there, Miami scored two more runs, one on a double-play grounder and another on Liam Hicks’s single.
Milwaukee cut its deficit to 3-1 in the sixth. Hamilton drew a nine-pitch, leadoff walk, stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error by Hicks at catcher and scored on Garrett Mitchell’s groundout.
Miami, facing reliever DL Hall, extended its lead to 5-1 with two runs in the sixth. Hicks walked, and Owen Caissie doubled before Javier Sanoja cashed in with a two-run single on a soft line-drive single that went just past the pitcher and into center field.
Milwaukee got those two runs back in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Sal Frelick singled, Mitchell and Brice Turang drew two-out walks, and Sanchez bounced a two-run single to center, making it 5-3.
However, Fairbanks shut the door with a perfect ninth.
