MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (Interstat) — Tyler Phillips threw five scoreless innings as the Miami Marlins defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-0 on Thursday afternoon at loanDepot Park. Phillips (1-1) allowed two hits and struck out five while walking none. Pete Fairbanks earned his eighth save with a perfect ninth inning. Miami scored in the first inning on Xavier Edwards’ sacrifice fly, plating Otto Lopez. The Marlins added a run in the fourth when Jakob Marsee singled to center field, scoring Kyle Stowers. Miami managed five hits. Marsee drove in a run and Edwards also had an RBI. Arizona recorded three hits. Merrill Kelly (5-5) took the loss, allowing two runs on five hits over six innings. The game lasted 2 hours, 18 minutes before an announced crowd of 8,580. Arizona (34-34) has lost three straight. Miami (34-35) has won three consecutive games.

MIAMI (Interstat) — Tyler Phillips pitched five shutout innings, and the Miami Marlins completed a three-game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 2-0 victory Thursday afternoon at loanDepot Park. Phillips, making his third start of the season, allowed only two hits while striking out five. He walked two and improved to 1-1. The right-hander retired 10 of the final 11 batters he faced, working efficiently through the Arizona lineup. Merrill Kelly took the loss for Arizona, dropping to 5-5. Kelly went six innings, giving up two runs on five hits with three strikeouts and three walks. Pete Fairbanks earned his eighth save of the season with a perfect ninth inning. Miami strung together a pair of runs in the first and fourth innings, manufacturing offense around a modest five-hit attack. The Marlins struck first in the bottom of the opening frame. Liam Hicks led off with a line-drive single to center field. Otto Lopez followed with a line single to right, but Hicks was thrown out at third on a strong throw from Corbin Carroll. Kyle Stowers walked to keep the inning alive, and Xavier Edwards lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that scored Lopez and gave Miami a 1-0 lead. The lead held into the fourth. Stowers walked again to open the inning and advanced to second on a single by Edwards. After Javier Sanoja popped out, Owen Caissie grounded into a force out that put Stowers at third with two outs. Jakob Marsee then lined a single to center field, scoring Stowers to double the Marlins’ advantage to 2-0. Marsee went 1 for 2 with the RBI. Arizona’s offense never found traction. The Diamondbacks managed just three hits all afternoon, with only one extra-base hit. Ketel Marte doubled in the fourth inning, but the Diamondbacks could not bring him home. They put two runners on base in the sixth when Jorge Barrosa singled and Carroll was hit by a pitch, but Miami catcher Joe Mack caught Gabriel Moreno on a foul tip for the second out, and Nolan Arenado popped out to end the threat. In the seventh, Arizona put another pair on base via a single by LuJames Groover and a walk to pinch-hitter Adrian Del Castillo. But Calvin Faucher entered from the Marlins bullpen and struck out Barrosa swinging to escape the jam. Faucher retired all three batters he faced, striking out two. Anthony Bender worked a scoreless eighth inning, striking out three of the four batters he faced despite allowing a single to Marte. Arizona’s best chance to score came in the top of the fourth inning. Marte led off with a double to center field, the only extra-base hit of the game for the Diamondbacks. Carroll flew out to left field, and Moreno walked to put two runners on with one out. Phillips then induced a foul tip from Arenado for the second strikeout of the inning and got Geraldo Perdomo to ground out to first base, ending the threat. The Diamondbacks went quietly in the ninth against Fairbanks, with Arenado striking out, Perdomo flying out, and Groover striking out on a foul tip to end the game. The game took 2 hours, 18 minutes, the quickest of the three-game series. Attendance was 8,580 at the retractable-roof ballpark. Arizona fell to 34-34 with the loss. The Diamondbacks had won three of four entering the series but were held to a combined five runs in three games against Miami. Arizona finished the road trip 2-4 after splitting a two-game set in Seattle earlier in the week. They will open a three-game series at Cincinnati on Friday. Miami improved to 34-35, winning for the fifth time in seven games. The Marlins swept the Diamondbacks for the first time since 2023 and have now won four of their last five series. They travel to Pittsburgh for a three-game set beginning Friday. The most critical sequence of the game occurred in the bottom of the fourth inning with the score 1-0. Kyle Stowers drew a leadoff walk from Kelly, and Xavier Edwards singled to put runners at first and second. After a popout and a force out, Marsee delivered the two-out RBI single that extended Miami’s lead to 2-0. That proved to be the margin of victory as Arizona never mounted a serious threat thereafter. For the Marlins, the win was a continuation of a strong homestand. Miami scored first in all three games of the series, and the pitching staff posted a combined 2.00 ERA in the sweep. Phillips, who had allowed four runs in his previous start, was sharp from the outset. He threw 57 of his 82 pitches for strikes and did not allow a runner past second base after the fourth inning. Arizona’s Kelly was effective but lacked run support. He allowed six hits and two walks but kept the Marlins off the board after the fourth. The Diamondbacks offense, which had scored 27 runs in their previous five games, managed only two base runners after the sixth inning. Interstat’s game simulator projected a 5-3 Marlins victory. The ELO system gave Arizona a 50.10 percent probability to win. Arizona was installed as a pregame favorite by 1.5 runs. The total score of 2 went over the over/under line of 8.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (Interstat) — The Arizona Diamondbacks and Miami Marlins conclude their three-game series Thursday afternoon at loanDepot Park. First pitch is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. EDT, with the forecast calling for 85 degrees and cloudy skies. Arizona (34-32) had not announced its starting pitcher as of Wednesday. The candidates are right-hander Merrill Kelly (5-4) or right-hander Tyler Phillips (0-1). Miami (32-35) will counter with right-hander Max Meyer (4-1), who has been the Marlins’ most reliable starter. Meyer, 27, enters the start having won each of his past two outings. He last faced the Diamondbacks on Tuesday, allowing two earned runs on seven hits over 5 1/3 innings in Miami’s 10-6 victory. In five starts since May 18, the right-hander has a 1.35 ERA, striking out 26 across 31 1/3 innings while holding opponents to a .184 batting average. Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte is a player to watch after his strong performance in Tuesday’s loss. Marte went 3-for-5 with three RBI, giving him a team-high 47 RBI for the season. He is hitting .333 over his last three games, though he has struggled with multiple hitless performances in his previous six contests. The Diamondbacks have dropped two straight to Miami after winning their previous series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Arizona has lost four of its past six overall. The Diamondbacks are averaging 4.9 runs per game but have been held to six runs or fewer in all but one of their past seven. Miami is riding a two-game win streak after taking both ends of this series. The Marlins have won five of their last seven games after a 5-11 stretch in late May. The teams have split their season series 2-2 entering Thursday, with Miami winning the past two meetings by a combined score of 18-6. Interstat’s game simulator projects a 5-3 win for Miami. Arizona enters as a -1.5 favorite in the betting markets, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. The over/under is set at 8 runs. Following Thursday’s game, Arizona travels to Cincinnati for a three-game series beginning Friday. Miami opens a three-game road series against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday.