SAN FRANCISCO (Interstat) — The Miami Marlins defeated the San Francisco Giants 9-4 on Friday night at Oracle Park, pounding out 16 hits and scoring in four of the first six innings. Sandy Alcantara earned his third win for Miami, which improved to 13-13. Adrian Houser took the loss, dropping to 0-3, after surrendering eight earned runs over four innings.

Miami scored three runs in the first inning on a Xavier Edwards RBI double and a Liam Hicks two-run homer. Graham Pauley added an RBI single in the second, and Hicks drove in another run with a sacrifice fly in the third. Connor Norby hit a three-run homer in the fourth, and Otto Lopez delivered an RBI single in the sixth.

San Francisco scored three runs in the fifth on an RBI single from Drew Gilbert, an Eric Haase double and a Luis Arraez single, then added a run in the eighth. Jung Hoo Lee went 3 for 4 with a home run and an RBI for the Giants, who fell to 11-15. Attendance was 38,317, and the game lasted 2 hours, 54 minutes.