Marlins’ Alcantara pitches 1:57 full recreation, majors’ 1st this season

MIAMI — Sandy Alcantara pitched the key leagues’ first full recreation this season, a three-hitter that led the Miami Marlins to a 1-0 win over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday evening.

The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner, who pitched six of the massive leagues’ 36 full video games final season, struck out 5 and walked one in a 1-hour, 57-minute recreation that was the shortest of the season.

Avisaíl Garcia homered within the second inning for the sport’s solely run.

Twins starter Kenta Maeda, who missed final season after having Tommy John surgical procedure, struck out 9 earlier than leaving within the sixth with an obvious arm difficulty. The 34-year-old Maeda (0-1), who had not pitched since Aug. 21, 2021, allowed three hits and threw 79 pitches.

Alcantara (1-0) threw 68 of his 100 pitches for strikes. He bounced again from a 5 2/3-inning outing on opening day towards the New York Mets wherein he allowed three runs and walked 4.

Alcantara retired the primary 11 batters earlier than Trevor Larnach beat out a mushy grounder to 3rd for an infield single within the fourth.

The crowd of 10,668 cheered Alcantara as he jogged to the mound to start out the ninth. Alcantara allowed Carlos Correa’s one-out single earlier than retiring Larnach on a double-play grounder for his tenth profession full recreation and fourth shutout.

The Twins misplaced for the primary time after beginning the season with 4 straight victories.

García gave the Marlins the one run they would wish when he drove Maeda’s slider over the wall in left for his first homer.

CLEAR VIEW FROM TOP

The stadium roof was open for the third time within the Marlins’ homestand. That equaled the whole the membership performed with out the roof closed final season.

HONOR FOR ARRAEZ

Former Twin Luis Arraez was introduced his 2022 Silver Slugger Award earlier than the sport. The reigning AL batting champion posed for images along with his household and Twins supervisor Rocco Baldelli and hitting coach Rudy Hernandez. Minnesota traded Arraez to Miami in January.

ROSTER MOVES

The Marlins recalled INF/OF Garrett Hampson and LHP Braxton Garrett from Triple-A Jacksonville. The membership additionally chosen the contract of LHP Daniel Castano from Jacksonville. RHP Jeff Lindgren was designated for project. Lindgren relieved Johnny Cueto Monday after the veteran starter exited within the second inning due to proper bicep tightness and pitched 5 innings in his main league debut.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Twins: OF Max Kepler (proper knee soreness) underwent an imaging take a look at Tuesday and supervisor Rocco Baldelli doesn’t anticipate him to overlook prolonged time.

Marlins: Cueto and INF Joey Wendle (strained rib-cage muscle tissues) have been positioned on the 15-day and 10-day injured lists, respectively. The outcomes on Cueto’s MRI didn’t reveal a lot irritation.

UP NEXT

Twins RHP Pablo López (1-0, 0.00) will begin the sequence finale towards his former membership Wednesday afternoon. López spent the primary 5 seasons of his profession in Miami earlier than he was dealt to Minnesota Jan. 20. LHP Jesús Luzardo (1-0, 0.00) will begin for the Marlins. ___