Stanton drives in 2 as Marlins snap drought

MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton woke up a sluggish Miami offense with two RBIs on Tuesday night, and Ichiro Suzuki energized an eighth-inning rally while also moving closer to 3,000 Major League hits.

Stanton’s power and Ichiro’s timely single provided all the support Tom Koehler needed as the Marlins defeated the Phillies, 5-0, at Marlins Park.

After being shut out in consecutive games, the Marlins had gone 24 straight innings without a run before Martin Prado doubled in the sixth and scored on Stanton’s two-out single. The Marlins broke the game open with four runs in the eighth inning, with Ichiro’s single to left off Andrew Bailey putting the rally in motion. It was Ichiro’s 2,997th career Major League hit.

Koehler, facing the Phillies twice in five days, worked six shutout innings, scattering three hits and striking out five. In his two straight starts, he has given up three runs (one earned) in 14 frames. Miami needed a strong start because Phillies right-hander Jerad Eickhoff permitted just one run on five hits while striking out eight in seven innings.

The Phillies advanced a runner as far as second in the fourth and sixth innings, but Koehler got out of both jams.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDStanton snaps drought, adds on: Shut out for two straight games, the Marlins were in desperate need for some type of breakthrough. Stanton delivered in the sixth with a two-out RBI single to right. Miami hadn’t scored since the seventh inning of Saturday’s 7-2 win over the Mets. Once the scoreless streak was snapped, Stanton delivered some insurance with an RBI double in the eighth inning against Bailey, which made it 2-0. He ended up scoring in the four-run frame.

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