Balanced offensive attack carries Marlins past Blue Jays

Kyle Stowers, Javier Sanoja and Owen Caissie each had two hits and two RBIs on Monday as the visiting Miami Marlins defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-2.

The victory in the opener of a three-game series gave Miami a season-best four-game win streak.

Ernie Clement homered for the Blue Jays, who have lost two straight.

Toronto's Nathan Lukes, who returned from a strained hamstring that kept him out for a month, produced three singles and was hit by a pitch. Davis Schneider was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo.

Miami scored a first-inning run against Trey Yesavage (2-2). Xavier Edwards led off with a double to right, took third on a groundout and trotted home on Otto Lopez's sacrifice fly to the warning track in left.

The Blue Jays had runners at the corners with no outs in the fourth against Janson Junk (3-5) after Kazuma Okamoto and Jesus Sanchez singled. Junk worked out of the inning with a popout, a strikeout and a lineout.

Yesavage retired 13 in a row before Sanoja doubled to left with one out in the fifth. Caissie, who is from nearby Burlington, Ontario, stroked an RBI double to right-center.

Toronto broke through with a run in the bottom of the fifth on singles by Lenyn Sosa, Lukes and Yohendrick Pinango.

Junk allowed one run, eight hits and no walks while striking out three in five innings.

Miami scored three times in the sixth. Toronto native Liam Hicks walked and scored on a two-out double to left on Stowers' shallow fly that Pinango missed with a sliding attempt and inadvertently kicked the ball into center field. Jakob Marsee walked before Sanoja lined a two-run double to left.

Clement homered to left against Lake Bachar in the sixth.

Mason Fluharty replaced Yesavage in the seventh. Yesavage allowed five runs, five hits and two walks in 6 2/3 innings. He fanned six.

Miami added three in the eighth. Hicks led off with an infield hit against Tyler Rogers and Lopez walked. Stowers knocked an RBI double down the left field line. Marsee's chopped groundout to third brought Lopez home. Caissie followed with an RBI single against Adam Macko.

--Field Level Media