MIAMI — With seven weeks left within the season, the New York Yankees already are operating out of time.

Jake Burger’s game-ending single capped a five-run, ninth-inning comeback towards Clay Holmes and Tommy Kahnle, giving the Miami Marlins an 8-7 win Sunday.

“The mountain gets bigger with every loss,” Holmes mentioned. “We have to put together some wins and string them together and get some momentum going.”

Last-place New York (60-58) led 7-1 within the sixth inning behind ace Gerrit Cole however dropped 5 video games again of the AL’s final wild card berth and is on observe to overlook the playoffs for the primary time since 2016.

The Yankees misplaced when main by 4 runs within the ninth inning for the primary time since July 11, 2021. New York is 3-8-1 in its final 12 sequence and has misplaced six straight rubber video games of three-game sequence.

“Difficult way to end the series but we’ve got to move on,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “We know we have to rack up wins and as tough as this one is to swallow, you have to move on from it.”

PHOTOS: Marlins stun Holmes and Kahnle with 5 runs in ninth, beat Yankees 8-7 as Burger will get game-ending hit

Burger, who had three hits, lower the deficit to 7-2 with an RBI single within the sixth off Cole. Wandy Peralta walked Josh Bell main off the eighth and Bryan De La Cruz hit an RBI double off Kenyan Middleton.

Holmes (4-3), who had given up three runs in 35 video games since May 6, allowed Yuli Gurriel’s double main off the ninth. Nick Fortes singled on a ball up the center that rookie shortstop Anthony Volpe couldn’t provide you with.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. walked and Bell hit a one-hopper that bounced off Holmes’ glove and went to the third-base aspect. The reliever gloved the ball and rushed a throw previous first for an error as Gurriel and Fortes scored.

Luis Arraez, hitting a serious league-leading .367, grounded a triple down the right-field line for his third hit, tying the rating 7-7.

“I’m facing a closer with nasty stuff,” Arraez mentioned. “His pitches move but I’m always positive. I was looking for contact and thank God he hung me a sinker and I managed to hit it down the line.”

Kahnle relieved and walked De La Cruz, who superior on defensive indifference. With Oswaldo Cabrera a part of a five-infield, Burger lined a single to left for his seventh hit in 12 at-bats throughout the sequence.

“I’m just thinking sac fly, something up,” Burger mentioned. “Fortunately, I got something up and was able to drive it to left field.”

Burger and Bell have been acquired on the commerce deadline because the Marlins search their first postseason berth over a 162-game schedule since their 2003 World Series championship run.

“The guys in this clubhouse have been awesome to us,” Burger mentioned. “I’ve been talking about it literally since minute one. Stepping into this clubhouse I feel I’ve been part of the team. Kind of get emotional talking about that because it’s hard to find a group of guys like that.”

Combined with Washington’s 8-7 win over Oakland behind a six-run ninth, it was the primary day with two comebacks from four-run-or-more deficits within the ninth inning or later since July 9, 2010.

Jorge López (6-2) pitched a scoreless ninth to get the win earlier than 35,043, the Marlins’ season excessive at house.

“These guys don’t stop believing,” Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker mentioned. “It’s just a thing in the clubhouse, a thing in the dugout. The guys that we acquired they believe in it. There’s no stop.”

Cole gave up two runs and 6 hits in six innings for New York, which begins a sequence Monday at main league-leading Atlanta.

Volpe and Ben Rortvedt homered for the Yankees. Volpe has a team-high 9 homers with runners on base and 16 homers total. Rortvedt’s homer was his first for New York.

Gleyber Torres had a career-high three stolen bases. Aaron Judge was 0 for 3 with two walks on the seventh anniversary of his main league debut.

Marlins starter Eury Pérez gave up 4 runs and 4 hits in 4 innings.

TOSSED

Plate umpire James Hoye ejected Yankees assistant hitting coach Brad Wilkerson within the eighth for arguing a referred to as third strike towards Volpe.

CROWD

The weekend sequence drew 100,001 because the Marlins topped 30,000 for every day of a three-game house sequence for the primary time since June Sept. 11, 2012, the ballpark’s preliminary season.

SWIFT

Saturday’s recreation took 2 hours, 3 minutes, the shortest nine-inning Yankees recreation since June 12, 1992, which lasted precisely two hours.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Yankees: INF DJ LeMahieu (proper calf tightness) sat out his fifth straight recreation. … LHP Carlos Rodón (left hamstring pressure) will journey to the membership’s spring coaching complicated in Tampa for simulated video games.

Marlins: OF-DH Jorge Soler (abdomen virus) missed his second consecutive recreation however was on deck to pinch hit earlier than Burger’s single … RHP Tommy Nance (proper elbow surgical procedure) pitched a scoreless inning in a rehab look with Double-A Pensacola on Saturday.

UP NEXT

Yankees: RHP Clarke Schmidt (8-6, 4.23 ERA) will begin the opener of a three-game sequence at Atlanta, which matches with LHP Max Fried 3-1, 2.50,

Marlins: LHP Braxton Garrett (6-3, 4.08) begins Monday towards visiting Houston and LHP Framber Valdez (9-7, 3.30).

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