MIAMI -- Sandy Alcantara tossed his MLB-high third complete game on 116 pitches, backed by Luis Arraez’s first-inning two-run homer to the second deck, in Saturday’s 3-1 win over the Yankees at loanDepot park.
A crowd of 33,980 fans -- the largest non-Opening Day attendance at loanDepot park since April 5, 2014, vs. San Diego -- watched Miami come out blazing to keep pace in the National League Wild Card race.
It was vintage Alcantara on the bump, inducing 10 groundouts and fanning 10. He entered the ninth at 104 pitches. The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner recorded six complete games last season – the most by a Major League pitcher in six years – while leading MLB in innings (228 2/3). He now has an MLB-high 158 1/3 in 2023 despite a down season by his standards.
The only trouble Alcantara encountered came during a 23-pitch seventh, when Billy McKinney walked with one out and advanced to second on a balk. Isiah Kiner-Falefa then drove him in with an RBI single to right.
Alcantara received all the support he would need in that first inning, when Arraez pulled an inside fastball from opener Michael King a Statcast-projected 409 feet for the longest homer of his career. Arraez entered Saturday 7-for-36 (.194) with just one extra-base hit over his past nine games as his MLB-best average dropped to a season-low .366.
With Jorge Soler battling a stomach bug, manager Skip Schumaker shuffled the top part of his lineup. Soler, who had taken over the leadoff spot this week for the slumping Arraez, was replaced by Jazz Chisholm Jr., while Josh Bell and Arraez flipped into the second and third spots, respectively.
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