Brewers vs. Marlins Highlights (7/4/25) | MLB Highlights

Happy Independence Day to you and yours, however you're celebrating. Brewers coming off that series loss to the Mets. Marlins have won 14 of their last 19 games. They've won four consecutive series. It's Sandy Day today on this Friday night. Sandy had a great month of June with the exception of that last start. Still, the first four starts of June, he had a 2.74 ERA. Yeah, and there were two men gone. Jelich bounces one of the backhand to the first baseman, Wagaman. He calls off Alcantara and skirts into the bag himself. Three unassisted on the put out, and a quick one-two-three frame for Sandy Alcantara. Quinn Priester, Brewers have won each of his last six appearances. Yeah, probably his best start of the season last time out against Colorado Rockies, 95 pitches, seven innings. He punched out 11. Xavier Edwards hit for the cycle against the Brewers a year ago. He's now in a rocket. Through the right side of the infield, a base hit. X says, welcome to Miami. And he's one for one tonight, and that'll get Jesus Sanchez to the plate. The right fielder for the Marlins, 253 average, seven home runs, 29 driven in for Sanchez. Ground ball up the middle, that's going to sneak into right center field for a base hit. Edwards will turn and burn around second. Back-to-back singles, the one-and-two spot in the lineup, Edwards and Sanchez. Here's Otto Lopez. Lopez has been swinging a hot stick of late. And that one, a ground ball could be two. Ortiz charging, he scoops to second for one. On to first, not in time. And the first run comes in. Edwards scores from third base. It is a six-to-four fielder's choice, but another RBI for the RBI machine right now. Otto Lopez, it's one-nothing fish in the first. Here's a ground ball, softly hit to second base. And Ramirez is out. For the second out, Lopez goes to second on the play. It was not a double play ball. And there's two down with the runner in scoring position now for Kyle Stowers. And he got him looking. Sinker, low inside corner, strikes out Stowers. And it's a nice job of limiting the damage by Priester. He gives up one, but that's it. We go to the second inning, one-nothing Marlins. Sandy Alcantara has gone six up and six down in 18 pitches. And he now sees the seven-inning first baseman, Jake Bowers, one-nothing fish. Bowers is a little dribbler right side. Wagaman picks it up. He will take it to the back himself and beat Bowers by a half-step. Make it seven in a row for Alcantara. Here comes Durbin, carrying an eight-game hitting streak now. And he lifts one into left for a base hit. He's got a nine-game hitting streak. On a hop in front of Stowers, it lands. Kyle throws it in to hold Durbin at first. There goes the runner in the pitch. He's inside. He walked him. The ball forward to Joey, and the Brewers have two on with one out. Single by Durbin, and then Joey walks right in. One-nothing Marlins, but now the lineup card turns over as the Brewers have their first threat of the night. Here comes Sal, who lined hard to center to begin the ballgame. And a balk by Alcantara. How about that? Alcantara was going into his motion. Durbin was kind of dancing off of second base, and Alcantara just stopped. He'd already lifted his leg. Yeah, can't do that. It's the easiest balk call we'll see all year. The Brewers get him to second and third with one out after that mistake. The one-one. Sal hits it in the air. This is carrying back into right-center field. It'll tie the game. The center fielder Meyers back onto the edge of the right-center field warning track, makes the catch, tagging from third is Durbin. He scores over to third, Ortiz. Deep sacrifice fly, and the Brewers on the board. It's a one-one game. And that balk pays dividends for the Brewers and hurt Sandy at that point because they would have had just first and second. The go-ahead run goes to third with two away here in the third inning for William Contreras. Line drive, base hit, pulled into left-center field. Contreras splits the gap. It's rolling all the way to the fence. Trotting in from third, Ortiz, and William will jog into second base. Delivers a two-out RBI double, and the Brewers are in front, two to one in the third inning. And that was another smash. This time Contreras finds the gap. Blowing in, got a perfect sinker. Sandy fires his best pitch to end the inning, but damage done against him. Two runs in, they're two and a half. It's a one-on-one out. It brings up Jesus Sanchez. He had a base hit back in the first inning. Chopper out in front of the mound. Priester is on it. He lobs it to first, then he sails it down the right-field line. It's backed up by Terang. Throw to third, gets away. Whoa, they're making a mess of this, baby. Sanchez will stop at second, and the Marlins have tied the game. Boy, a shorthanded Brewers crew that won the overall Team Gold Glove Award last season. They just went back to Little League with that puppy. One unassisted. Priester tags Ramirez. That pushes Sanchez to third, Lopez to second. With two away, it's Kyle Stowers. Fly ball to center by Stowers. He's deep but playable right on the warning track for the center fielder, Chorio, and he squeezes it. As Stowers hits a deep fly out, the Marlins get an unearned run. The Brewers have runners on first and second with only one out. Sixth pitch to Bowers right there called strike three. They're two away with two on in the top of the fourth. And it's going to be up to Caleb Durbin if the Brewers are to cash in on this rally here in the fourth. Durbin a flare, shallow center, tough play, and it'll fall, a base hit. Chorio trying to score. The throw goes to third. Collins is safe at third. Chorio able to score the run. It's a bloop RBI single by Caleb Durbin, and the Brewers have the lead. It's three to two in the fourth. Caleb just keeps on delivering with runners in scoring position. Now strike one, runner goes for second. They'll throw through, but not in time to get Durbin. And he slides in safely to put runners on second and third. Batter is Joey Ortiz. Now a base hit could plate two. Ground ball off of Alcantara. That'll get at least one more run home. Here comes a second run, and the Brewers break it open in this fourth inning. And the Brewers have scored three with two out in the fourth inning to take a five-to-two lead in Miami. Three-two, runner gets a head start. Now to Tomahawk Chopper over to first base. Waggerman's got it. That is just down the first-base line, a fair ball, and Waggerman takes it to the back himself to end the inning. Conner Norby, former Baltimore Oriole. He's pitched to Conner Norby. He drills out to right center and deep. Freelick back, track, wall. It is gone. Early pyrotechnics. Conner Norby, he's getting right. Fifth homer of the year, a solo shot to right center, and it's a two-run game. Five-three Milwaukee in the bottom of the fourth. There's one away in the bottom of the fifth. Sue Sanchez, someone ripped past the dive of the first baseman, Bowers, down the right-field line into the corner. It's hit number 400 for Sanchez, and it may be three. Relay throw to third, head first dive. He is safe. It's a one-out triple in the bottom of the fifth. His 400th hit, a triple. So Sanchez 90 feet away with one out. Brewers will bring that infield in now for Otto Lopez. Otto Lopez in the air. Left field deep, baby! Homer number nine, and it's a brand-new game in the bottom of the fifth. And, of course, it's Otto Lopez because that's just what he's been doing. Sandy Alcantara's night is over. Five runs, five hits, six innings, a walk, four strikeouts. That's Anthony Bender, veteran right-hander, takes over Durbin to third. Dark two away for William Contreras. Chopper hits softly. It's really going to be a tough play. Bender fields it, throws it to first. Anthony Bender, if it stands. And the Brewers want to take a look at it. Oh, he's out. Oh, he's out. He's out. Anthony Bender. Come on. Come on down. Afternoon, Dartmouth State. An amazing play by Anthony Bender. That ground ball out again. Strands a man at third. Kate Gibson. Gibson has given up a run in each of his last two outings. Has to deal with the meat of the Brewers' order. Ground ball back up the middle, and a base hit for Yellich. Lead off man is on for the second straight inning for the Brewers. Tonight he extends his on-base streak to 16 games. Middle of the order now, Jackson Churio. 0-for-2 is hit by a pitch, and scored a run. That is a fair ball inside the bag. Yellich cutting the bags. He's going to come around and score as Churio has an RBI double. The Brewers are in front. Jackson Churio, his first hit in Miami. At 23rd double of the season, Jackson Churio comes through right here at the top of the eighth inning to put the Brewers up by one. Six-five Brewers, and they bring in Trevor McGill to try and shut the door. 18 out of 21 are new save opportunities. Fly ball, center field for Churio. One away. Going to get a pinch hitter. It's Liam Hicks. And a line drive. Caught by Durbin at third. Left as high as he could, and Durbin brought it down. What a play by Durbin right here. And positioned perfectly. Lines one, and Durbin gets up and takes a hit away from him for the second out here in the ninth. Trevor McGill has had one-run leads in nine save opportunities. He converted eight of them so far. That one, a line drive through the right side. A base hit. Again, all you need is a base runner. Xavier Edwards with a two-out single. And that brings up Jesus Sanchez. That one misses outside. Ball four. Winning run on base. Yeah, you got to face a pretty hot hitter right now. And with runners at first and second, two men gone, McGill sees Otto. Struck him out with a curveball, and this one is over. Fireworks in Miami for the Brewers as they take down the Marlins six to five. Trevor McGill works his way through the ninth and slams the door. And the Brewers take game one of this series by a final of six to five.