MIAMI – Owen Caissie drove in three runs in the Marlins’ 4-3 comeback victory over the Giants on Friday night at loanDepot park.
With the Marlins trailing 3-2 in the seventh, pinch-hitter Esteury Ruiz got hit by a pitch and Javier Sanoja bunted for a hit to open the frame. Liam Hicks then tied the game with an RBI single.
Instead of pinch-hitting for the left-handed-hitting Caissie, manager Clayton McCullough allowed him to face southpaw Sam Hentges. Caissie thanked his skipper by lifting a sacrifice fly to left for a 4-3 lead.
The win returned Miami (38-38) to .500 and improved upon its MLB-best record in June (12-4). The club has won six in a row at home, and this time by using eight pitchers in a bullpen game.
It was Caissie who started off the scoring by lining a solo shot just over the center-field wall in the first. His second homer in as many games came on righty Landen Roupp’s cutter.
San Francisco knotted the game in the second. The first three batters reached on two singles and a bunt hit. Left fielder Kyle Stowers then robbed Daniel Susac of extra bases, though his leaping catch did result in a sac fly.
Miami regained the lead in the fifth, when Sanoja led off the frame with a double and moved to third on Hicks’ groundout to short. With the infield in, Caissie sent a chopper over first baseman Bryce Eldridge’s head for an RBI double.
Caissie, who bunted for a hit for the first time in his career in the third, notched his third three-hit performance of the season, and first since April 9.