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BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins will try to keep a four-game road win streak going when they take on the Milwaukee Brewers. Milwaukee has a 33-19 record at home and a 61-43 record overall. The Brewers have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the NL at .250.
Janson Junk (5-2) allowed three runs and eight hits in five innings. Tyler Phillips pitched the final four innings for his first career save. He allowed three hits including Andrew Vaughn's eighth home run — a solo shot in the ninth.
Back home after their West Coast swing to open the second half, the Milwaukee Brewers were quiet offensively ahead of a postgame alumni home run derby in a 5-1 loss to the Miami Marlins at American Family Field that featured a seventh-inning bullpen implosion.
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Heriberto Hernandez hit a go-ahead three-run homer and the Miami Marlins beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-4 Agustín Ramírez and Dane Myers also homered for the Marlins in their fourth straight win.
The Milwaukee Brewers, who sport the best record in the majors, host the Miami Marlins for a three-game weekend series at American Family Field.
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