Miami Marlins at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

Miami Marlins

70-69, 28-42 Away

Final
6 - 3

Kansas City Royals

62-77, 36-31 Home

Graham Pauley drives in 4 as the Marlins beat the Royals 6-3

Tyler Phillips (4-6) threw five innings of one-hit ball for the Marlins, striking out four and walking two. Three relievers combined to give up five hits with two strikeouts, with Tyler Zuber finishing off the ninth.

Pauley, recalled from Triple-A Jacksonville ahead of the game — his fifth call-up of the year — hit his second major league homer of the season in the second, a two-run shot to right.

Stowers added a 412-footer to right in the fifth to make it a three-run game.

Pauley's first triple of the season drove in two more and sent Royals starter Randy Dobnak (2-3) to the dugout in the seventh. Javier Sanoja got Pauley across with a single to make it 6-0.

Dobnak went six-plus innings and allowed seven hits and six runs while striking out six and walking two.

Kansas City began a rally in the eighth as Carter Jensen hit an RBI double and Bobby Witt Jr. hit a sacrifice fly.

Royals manager Matt Quatraro was ejected in the eighth inning after the Royals were initially granted a run-scoring balk to make it a three-run game, but it was reversed after the umpires discussed the call.

The Royals got one more on Nick Loftin's homer in the ninth.

The Marlins remain three games behind San Diego for the final NL wild card.

Up next Marlins RHP Eury Pérez (7-10, 3.44 ERA) starts Wednesday opposite LHP Noah Cameron (9-8, 3.98).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Collins flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Rojas to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Rojas singled to right.
	9th Inning	Loftin homered to left (413 feet).
	9th Inning	Pasquantino popped out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Perez grounded out to second.

Statistics

MIA		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	9
8	Strikeouts	6
6	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	3
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
33	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	10
1	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	17
0	Caught Stealing	0
130	Pitches	123
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
16	Total Bases	10
36	Plate Appearances	35
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
4.7	Runs Created	2.6
.242	Batting Average	.194
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.485	Slugging Percentage	.323
.303	Secondary Average	.258
.306	On Base Percentage	.257
.790	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.580
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
4.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.6
40.5	Batter Rating	24.0
16.5	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.61	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.51
.242	Isolated Power	.129
0.25	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.056	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.086
.061	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.065
12.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
87.5	MLB Rating	74.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0