MIAMI, Florida — Second baseman Dee Gordon hit a triple to lead off the 10th inning and scored the winning run on first baseman Justin Bour’s single as the Miami Marlins beat the Boston Red Sox 5-4 on Tuesday night at Marlins Park.
Gordon’s drive to left-center eluded the diving attempt of center fielder Mookie Betts. With two outs, Bour got his hit off lefty reliever Craig Breslow (0-2).
Miami rallied from an early 4-0 deficit and tied the score with one run in the bottom of the ninth. Junichi Tazawa blew the save chance. Subbing for injured closer Koji Uehara, Tazawa gave up a game-tying sacrifice fly to shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria.
Even with the win, the Marlins (45-68) have the worst record in the majors. Miami won despite leaving 16 runners on base.
The Red Sox (50-63) have the worst record in the American League.
Boston played without manager John Farrell, who had hernia surgery in Detroit on Monday. He arrived to Marlins Park two hours before first pitch and was accompanied by Red Sox medical director Dr. Larry Ronan. However, before the game started, Farrell left the stadium and headed to the team hotel.
Bench coach Torey Lovullo managed the game in place of Farrell, who believes he got the hernia when he carried a heavy equipment bag on Thursday.
Boston knuckleballer Steven Wright and Miami rookie left-hander Justin Nicolino earned no-decisions.
Boston opened the scoring with a run in the third. Left fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. tripled over the head of Marlins center fielder Cole Gillespie, who made a diving attempt that came up a few inches short.
After the triple, Nicolino retired Wright on a come-backer. But with the infield playing in, Betts grounded a hard single to right field to put Boston on top.
Gillespie was a late addition to the lineup. Christian Yelich, who had started 39 consecutive games, was originally on the lineup card but was scratched due to a knee contusion.
The Red Sox made it to 2-0 in the fifth. Bradley hit a one-out single, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Wright and scored on Betts’ double past third baseman Martin Prado.
Boston added two more runs in the sixth, scoring on a bounced wild pitch by Nicolino, allowing shortstop Xander Bogaerts to score from third, and an RBI triple by right fielder Rusney Castillo.
Miami cut its deficit to 4-2 with two runs in the sixth. Catcher J.T. Realmuto hit a leadoff double, and right fielder Ichiro Suzuki followed with a walk. Pinch-hitter Casey McGehee hit an RBI groundout, and second baseman Dee Gordon had a run-scoring single.
The Marlins added a run in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by right fielder Ichiro Suzuki, cutting Boston’s lead to 4-3.
Mets 4, Rockies 0
NEW YORK — Right-handed pitcher Matt Harvey allowed four hits over eight shutout innings Tuesday night, when the New York Mets pulled away in the eighth inning of a 4-0 win over the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field.
The Mets (61-52) won the first two games of the four-game series.
The Rockies (47-64) are losers of their last 13 games.
Harvey (11-7) walked none, struck out four and was in cruise control all night in lowering his overall ERA to 2.61. In his last 10 starts dating back to June 16, Harvey is 5-3 with a 1.45 ERA.
Of the four hits Harvey allowed, only one — a seventh-inning double by first baseman Ben Paulsen — left the infield. Paulsen, one of only two Rockies to reach second base, was immediately erased when second baseman D.J. LeMahieu lined into a double play.
Harvey was locked in a pitcher’s duel with Rockies left-hander Chris Rusin (3-5) until the sixth. Right fielder Michael Cuddyer, who came off the disabled list Monday and made his first start Tuesday since July 19, singled with one out.
One out later, catcher Travis d’Arnaud singled. Shortstop Ruben Tejada followed by lacing a 2-1 pitch into right field and Cuddyer scored easily.
The Mets added three runs in the eighth, when pinch-hitter Curtis Granderson — batting for Harvey — drew a bases-loaded walk before centerfielder Juan Lagares hit a two-run double,
Lagares finished 3-for-4. Cuddyer was 2-for-4 with two runs and a stolen base while second baseman Wilmer Flores had two hits.
Rusin allowed the one run on eight hits and one walk (intentional) while striking out five. He allowed 14 runs (13 earned) over 15 innings in his three previous starts.