Marlins outslug Rockies to finish series sweep

Liam Hicks homered, singled and drove in a career-high-tying four runs, Otto Lopez and Heriberto Hernandez also went deep and the Miami Marlins held on to beat the Colorado Rockies 9-7 and sweep the three-game series on Thursday in Denver.

Jakob Marsee and Agustin Ramirez also had two hits and Sandy Alcantara allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings for Miami (73-80), which has won seven of its last nine.

Alcantara (10-12) entered Thursday with a 7.56 ERA in three career starts in Denver but was dominant for most of the afternoon, finishing with eight strikeouts.

Blaine Crim hit two solo home runs and Yanquiel Fernandez also homered and doubled for Colorado (41-112). Tyler Freeman had two hits and Tanner Gordon (6-7) allowed four runs -- three earned -- on five hits in his six innings.

Mickey Moniak homered for the fourth straight game during a ninth-inning rally that nearly erased a six-run deficit.

Crim started the inning with his second homer, the third of the season and his career. Fernandez and Ryan Ritter hit back-to-back doubles and Moniak homered 452 feet to center, his 24th of the season.

Calvin Faucher entered for Miami and Hunter Goodman singled off him to bring up the tying run, but Faucher got Jordan Beck to hit a comebacker to nail down his 14th save.

The Rockies have lost 22 of their last 26 games.

The Marlins took a 1-0 lead in the second on a two-out RBI single by Dane Myers, but Crim's first home run and an RBI single by Freeman gave the Rockies a 2-1 lead.

Hicks and Lopez hit back-to-back home runs in the third for the Marlins. Hicks' two-run shot was his sixth of the season, and Lopez's 15th homer made it 4-2. Hicks added a two-run single in the seventh to make it 6-2.

Alcantara retired 15 straight batters before Fernandez hit a solo homer with two outs in the seventh. Ritter walked to end Alcantara's day.

The Marlins got the run back in the eighth on Troy Johnston's RBI single to center for a 7-3 lead. Hernandez then hit a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the ninth, his ninth of the season.

--Field Level Media