DENVER -- Otto Lopez and Griffin Conine went deep, while Sandy Alcantara won his career-best sixth straight start in the Marlins’ 10-7 comeback victory over the Rockies on Monday night at Coors Field.
Miami (45-40) improved to an MLB-best 19-6 in June while matching the second-most wins for a month in franchise history. The Marlins also became the third team this season to secure at least 19 wins in a month, joining the Braves (19-9 in April) and the Brewers (19-7 in May). Both of those clubs lead their respective divisions.
The Marlins struck first with two runs in the second inning. Heriberto Hernández led off with a double and Kyle Stowers was hit by a pitch. Leo Jiménez, starting for a right-handed-heavy lineup with a left-hander on the mound, drove them in with a double off the right-center-field wall. He had just one RBI through his first 93 plate appearances this season.
Alcantara gave up the lead in the bottom half of the frame as eight Rockies came to the plate. Two batters after Ezequiel Tovar produced a sacrifice fly, it looked as though Alcantara might escape further damage. But Jake McCarthy’s fly ball deep to left bounced out of Esteury Ruiz’s glove to score two runs.
After Colorado extended its lead to 5-2, the Marlins rallied with four runs on a pair of homers in the fifth.
Lopez went deep to lead off the frame, giving him his MLB-leading 35th multihit game of the season. When the Rockies pulled southpaw Sean Sullivan for righty Victor Vodnik, manager Clayton McCullough countered with left-handed slugger Conine for Jimenez.
Conine, who made his Major League debut at Coors Field on Aug. 26, 2024, launched a changeup off the facing of the third deck for the go-ahead three-run homer. It marked the Marlins’ third pinch-hit home run of the season.
Miami put up another four-spot in the seventh. Javier Sanoja laced a bases-clearing triple and Joe Mack drove him in with an RBI single. Sanoja finished a homer shy of the cycle.
The run support made a winner of Alcantara, who finished June with a 6-0 record and a 3.37 ERA in six starts. He became the third Marlin with six wins in a month, joining José Fernández (May 2016) and Chris Hammond (June 1993). The last Marlin to be credited with a win in six or more straight appearances was also Fernández in 2016.