CINCINNATI — Sunday was another prototypical performance from Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara.
Seven innings pitched. A career-high 11 strikeouts. Just six baserunners allowed.
And once again, he lost.
Alcantara coughed up two runs on a pair of solo home runs — to Tyler Naquin in the first and Mike Moustakas in the fifth — and the Marlins offense couldn’t give him enough run support.
Final score to cap a series at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park: Reds 3, Marlins 1.
The Reds (69-57) swept the Marlins in the four-game series. Miami, now a season-worst 23 games under .500 at 51-74, have lost seven consecutive games.
Naquin added a second solo home run in the eighth against Anthony Bass.
Miami scored its only run of the game in the fourth inning, when a Jesus Sanchez ground ball bounced down the third-base line and into left field for an RBI double that scored Jazz Chisholm Jr.
