Brewers Snap Marlins' 7-Game Winning Streak
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MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (The Sports Xchange) -- Chris Carter hit two home runs and Domingo Santana added a third as the Milwaukee Brewers combined for a season-high 18 hits and snapped a four-game losing streak with a 14-5 victory over the Miami Marlins Sunday afternoon at Miller Park.
Jonathan Villar and Kirk Nieuwenhuis finished with three hits apiece for the Brewers while Carter, Santana, Ryan Braun and Aaron Hill each added a pair.
Eight runs came at the expense of Miami starter Tom Koehler (2-3), who allowed eight hits and a pair of walks with a strikeout in 2 1/3 innings of work. He put Miami in an early hole when Santana opened the first with a home run. Braun made it 2-0 with an RBI single before Nieuwenhuis ended the threat with a double play.
But four straight one-out hits in the third -- including Carter's first homer of the day -- followed by back-to-back walks brought Koehler's day to an end.
Cody Ege walked in another run and Wily Peralta added one more with a sac fly before Santana and Villar broke the game open with RBI singles.
Carter opened the fourth with a home run and Martin Maldonado made it 11-1 with a run-scoring single.
Even with a commanding lead, right-hander Wily Peralta (2-3) couldn't break the drought of quality starts by Brewers pitchers. He lasted only 5 2/3 innings and allowed five runs on 13 hits with a walk, a hit batter and no strikeouts.
Most of that damage came after the Brewers gave him an 11-1 cushion with seven in the third and two more in the fourth.
Miami's Martin Prado opened the fifth with a base hit and scored on Derek Dietrich's triple. Peralta retired the next two batters before Marcell Ozuna crushed his fourth home run of the season.
The Marlins finished with 15 hits but stranded 17 runners on Sunday and left 33 on base in the three-game set against Milwaukee while going 7-for-38 with runners in scoring position.
NOTES: Brewers manager Craig Counsell announced that RHP Junior Gurrera would join the Brewers and make his first big-league start Tuesday against the Angels. Gurrera is 0-2 with a 4.63 ERA in four starts this season for Triple-A Colorado Springs. He will be starting in place of RHP Taylor Jungmann, who was sent down to the minors last week. ... The Marlins' seven-game winning streak coming into the game Sunday was their longest since winning a club-record nine in a row from Aug. 27-Sept. 8, 2004. All seven of those victories have come on the road, matching a seven-game streak from May 1-7, 2012 for best in franchise history. ... The Marlins, who completed a 10-game road trip, are 10-5 away from Marlins Park. ... The Brewers named LF Ryan Braun and RHP Jeremy Jeffress as the team's player and pitcher of the month for April.
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