PHILADELPHIA — Trevor Rogers had another building block performance as he tries to end a disappointing season on a high note. The Miami Marlins’ disappointing season as a whole, however, continues.
Miami lost, 4-3, to the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday at Citizens Bank Park. The Marlins have now lost nine consecutive games, extending their longest losing streak of the season that began Aug. 28, and are 55-80 on the season.
Rogers held the Phillies (75-61) to three runs over six innings while striking out eight, matching his season high for innings pitched and strikeouts. The three runs he allowed came on a pair of home runs, with Edmundo Sosa sending a middle-middle change-up to left-center field in the third inning and Jean Segura sending a down-and-inside slider just beyond the left-field wall for a solo shot in the fourth.
The Phillies also scored on a Sosa double in the seventh against Huascar Brazoban.
The start followed up Rogers’ six-inning, one-run performance against the Tampa Bay Rays on Aug. 31 to give him consecutive quality starts since returning from the injured list.
In his first 19 starts, Rogers made it through the sixth inning just once.
Offensively, Miami logged 10 hits — nine of which were singles — on Wednesday and scored runs on a Joey Wendle fielder’s choice in the first inning, Charles Leblanc single in the fifth and Jacob Stallings solo home run in the ninth. Leblanc, Garrett Cooper and JJ Bleday all had multiple hits.
— The Marlins are now 5-10 against the Phillies, dropping the season series against Philadelphia for the first time since the 2018 season. Eight of 15 games have been decided by two runs or fewer, with the Marlins losing six of those eight games.
