Miami Marlins lose to Milwaukee Brewers 5-8 as Tom Koehler and Nate Eovaldi struggle-MLB Update
Relief pitcher Tom Koehler leaks four runs as the Miami Marlins are outclassed 5-8 by the Milwaukee Brewers on September 5, 2012 at Marlins Park, Miami in the third game of the four match series.
Even as the Marlins lost, their fight back late in the innings was incredible.
Trailing by five runs with little hope of a victory, their batters stood up in the bottom of the seventh. Giving an impression that they are going to leave the Brewers shaking their heads with disappointment, they rallied for four runs in this inning.
From there onward a couple of more runs would have bestowed an amazing victory for them. However just as it happened with the Marlins a number of times before, their relievers let them down on Wednesday as well.
As the relief pitcher Ryan Webb allowed two runs, whatever hopes they entertained for clinching the victory in the last inning crippled.
Nate Eovaldi started for Miami. Although he gave up just two runs in five innings, he suffered the loss. On the other hand, Tom Koehler who leaked even more runs escaped the loss and ended up getting a no-decision.
Eovaldi will be disappointed as not much support came from the offence. With few more runs scored by the Marlins, he may have earned the victory with the same numbers that have actually now handed him the loss.
Giancarlo Stanton was unimpressive on Wednesday. He failed to connect a hit at a time when that will have ensured victory for the side as after the run-rampage by Miami in the seventh he flied out and thus put halt to the momentum.
Marlins’ manager Ozzie Guillen has commented on the way the team squandered the opportunity.
"We find another way to lose and that's number 935 in we find a way to lose," Ozzie Guillen said.
Eovaldi believes he started off well but as the innings passed he failed to command his curveballs properly.
"I threw the ball pretty well," Eovaldi said. "I felt I attached the zone pretty well. Later on, I struggled finishing the curve ball, left it up when I needed to bury it."
The Marlins will be trying to win the last game of the series and bring some solace for the disgruntled fans.
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