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- Updated: July 27, 2016
MIAMI — Giancarlo Stanton sparked a big day for the Marlins with a spectacular catch and his 22nd home run as Adam Conley continued his dominance at home in the Marlins’ 11-1 win over the Phillies on Wednesday afternoon at Marlins Park.
Stanton robbed Tommy Joseph to end the top of the first with a leaping grab at the wall in right field, then capped a three-run bottom of the first with a homer to left-center. The Marlins cruised from there, collecting 16 hits, including three from Don Kelly, who had two triples and two RBIs.
“It was awesome,” Kelly said of his first three-hit game since August 2014. “This game is tough when you’re struggling a little bit at the plate and you’re up there grinding it out. You feel that potentially it’s going to bust open for you.”
The Marlins, who lead the National League with 954 hits, put their leadoff hitter on base in every inning and had four players collect three hits each.
Conley worked 6 2/3 scoreless innings, scattering eight hits. He struck out six, walked three, and helped his cause with two RBIs. The lefty escaped bases-loaded, one-out jams in both the third and sixth innings while improving to 3-0 in his last five starts at home with a 1.41 ERA (32 IP, 5 ER) over that span.
“There was great defense behind me and I was able to execute pitches,” Conley said. “Even though we found ourselves in some jams, we were able to pitch out of those.”
Phils starter Zach Eflin pitched into the sixth inning and was touched up for seven runs on nine hits as the Phillies are 4-9 since the All-Star break. They entered the break hoping to make a run at .500, but they would have to play 35-24 (.593) the rest of the way to accomplish that.
“It’s disappointing because we haven’t gotten there yet,” Joseph said about hitting the .500 mark, “but we’ve got just over two months to play. That’s easily an attainable goal for this team.”
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