Marlins’ poor run support for Sandy Alcántara has reached new, insane levels

Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports One of the themes of this season for the Marlins has been the poor run support being provided to their starting pitchers. The offense occasionally erupts like we saw on Friday, but seemingly never when Sandy Alcántara is on the mound. The Dominican right-hander is pitching as well as ever, going eight innings in each of his last two starts. Somehow, the Marlins lost both games.

On June 16, Alcántara took the loss against the Cardinals even though he pitched 8 1⁄3 innings of six hits and an unearned run. The Marlins didn’t score at all. Then on Tuesday, he went eight innings and surrendered five hits with one earned run vs. the Blue Jays, but Miami just cashed in…