Edward Cabrera struck out 12 batters in five innings, and the host Miami Marlins -- who scored five runs in the first inning -- held on for a 7-6 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday afternoon.
The Marlins, who got a scoreless ninth inning and a save from Tanner Scott, are 9-0 this season in one-run games.
Cabrera , who threw a season-high 108 pitches, allowing three hits, five walks and two runs. He walked the first three batters in the third, but he escaped with no runs allowed. The biggest hit of the inning was Sanchez's two-run, two-out, line-drive opposite-field, ground-rule double to left. The Marlins then scored on a wild pitch and closed the inning with Jacob Stallings' RBI single and Chisholm's run-scoring hit-by-pitch.
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