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Ichiro Fuels Marlins Comeback Win Over Rays

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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Age is only a number, just ask the Miami Marlins' oldest player.

Ichiro Suzuki had four hits, including a single in Miami's two-run eighth inning, and the Marlins rallied past the Tampa Bay Rays 7-6 Monday night.

The 42-year-old Suzuki has 10 hits in the past three games to raise his average to .417 and increase his career hit total to 2,960.

Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton showed signs of emerging from a prolonged slump. He put the ball in play in all three at-bats and reached on a single and walk.

Marcell Ozuna had three hits for Miami, including his ninth homer.

The Marlins trailed 6-5 in the eighth, but their first two hitters singled off Erasmo Ramirez (6-2). Pinch hitter Cole Gillespie's sacrifice fly tied the game, and Suzuki singled to put runners at first and third with one out.

Martin Prado then hit a one-hopper that deflected off the glove of reliever Alex Colome. He had to settle for an out at first as the go-ahead run scored.

Suzuki led off the first with a single and scored. He singled again in the second, and hit a two-out RBI single in the fourth.

David Phelps (3-2) pitched a perfect eighth. A.J. Ramos pitched around a one-out single in the ninth for his 14th save.

Tampa Bay's Taylor Motter drove in three runs with a bases-loaded walk, a double and his second home run. Brandon Guyer scored three times and had three hits, including his fifth home run for the Rays, who began the week tied for the major league lead in homers.

Steven Souza Jr. also had three hits and drove in a run. Rays pinch hitter Logan Morrison made the score 5-all in the sixth with a two-out RBI single.

The game was the 100th between Florida's teams, with three more to come this week. The Rays lead 51-49.

Rays starter Matt Moore went five innings and allowed 10 hits and five runs, including three in the first. The left-hander is winless over his past six starts with an ERA of 6.89.

Moore did earn a souvenir, hitting a single in the fourth for his first career hit.

Miami's Wei-Yin Chen allowed five runs, matching a season high, in 5 2/3 innings. Chen came into the game with just nine bases on balls this season, but walked two in the first inning, including Motter with the bases loaded to force in the game's first run.

The Rays scored twice in the first but left the bases loaded when Curt Casali fouled out.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Marlins: LF Christian Yelich missed his third start in a row because of back spasms but felt better. He was called on as a pinch-hitter in the eighth but replaced after the Rays changed pitchers.

UP NEXT

Rays RHP Jake Odorizzi (1-2, 3.81) is scheduled to start Tuesday's day game against RHP Tom Koehler (2-4, 4.71).

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