Beyond the pleasantries of this weekend’s attendance numbers at loanDepot Park, the new look-New York Yankees entered Sunday’s series finale having taken the first two games of this weekend set in Miami.
But as those July skies turned to August sunshine ace the Marlins turned to their ace, Sandy Alcantara, to snap the team’s 3-game skid, to say the 25-year old was great would very much undersell his outing Sunday.
7 innings, 99-pitches, 10 strikeouts, and just 2 hits later, Alcantara turned in arguably his most dominant effort of the season. Yet, it was the Miami bullpen that spoiled what would’ve been the right-hander’s career-best 7th win of the season as the Marlins fell 3-1, dropping their record to 44-61, succumbing to a series sweep.