ST. LOUIS (The Sports Xchange) — Ichiro Suzuki drew closer to a cherished major league milestone and the Miami Marlins took the rubber game of a three-game series matching National League wild-card hopefuls.
Suzuki’s three hits led Miami’s 13-hit attack Sunday as they knocked off the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 in Busch Stadium.
Suzuki needs only six hits to reach 3,000, and nearly had a fourth hit. But his infield single in the third was erased after a replay review revealed he was barely nipped at first by the throw of shortstop Aledmys Diaz.
Giancarlo Stanton snapped a 3-3 tie for the Marlins (49-42) in the seventh with an RBI double off reliever Jonathan Broxton (1-2), scoring Christian Yelich.