MILWAUKEE (AP) – Trevor Rogers pitched six spotless innings, Corey Dickerson finished a triple shy of the cycle, and the Miami Marlins beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-0 on Monday night. Dickerson drove in three runs against Brewers starter Corbin Burnes (2-2), who had only allowed one earned run over four outings this season. Since giving up that one run – a homer by Twins outfielder Byron Buxton on April 3 – Burnes had tossed 18 scoreless innings, striking out 29 without walking a batter while allowing a total of seven hits.
He struck out nine Monday, giving him 49 for the season, and still hasn’t issued a walk in 29 1/3 innings. He needs three more strikeouts without a walk his next time out to break a record set in 1893.
While Burnes was having an uncharacteristically “bad” outing, at least by his own standards this season, Rogers (3-1) did his best Burnes impression by striking out seven Milwaukee batters without a walk.
His defense did its part, too, snuffing out potential rallies with double plays to end the first three innings. Rogers struck out the side in the fourth and worked around one-out singles in each of his final two innings.
Burnes had struck out six when former teammate Jesus Aguilar reached on a one-out single in the fourth. After Garett Cooper struck out, Dickerson doubled to left field to give Miami a 1-0 lead.
It was still 1-0 when Jazz Chisholm Jr. led off the sixth with a ground-rule double down the right-field line. Chisholm scored when Miguel Rojas followed with a base hit up the middle and, after Aguilar singled, Cooper doubled to center. That put runners at second and third for Dickerson, who made it 4-0 with an RBI single ending Burnes’ night.
Drew Rasmussen got Milwaukee out of the inning without further damage.
hit a solo shot for his first home run of the season, and Jose Devers added a sacrifice fly.
Cooper tacked on another with a solo homer to center off Angel Perdomo in the ninth.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: 3B Brian Anderson started light baseball activity as he continues rehabbing from a strained left oblique. However, manager Don Mattingly said that center fielder Starling Marte (left rib fracture) is still too sore to begin his rehab process.
Brewers: INF Daniel Robertson was held out after taking a pitch off his helmet a day earlier in Chicago. Robertson hadn’t been diagnosed with a concussion, nor had he been placed in the concussion protocol. Still, manager Craig Counsell said the team was watching closely to ensure symptoms didn’t develop. … OFs Christian Yelich (back) and Lorenzo Cain (quad) are in a holding pattern as they work their way back from the injured list.
UP NEXT
The series continues Tuesday night with Brewers RHP Adrian Houser (1-2, 3.32 ERA) and Miami LHP Daniel Castano (0-1, 3.60) on the mound. Houser has not allowed more than three earned runs in any of his first four starts this season, while Castano threw four scoreless innings after allowing three two-out runs in the opening inning his last time out.
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