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Sandy Alcantara pitched his 11th career complete game and second of the season.

Sandy Alcántara threw a five-hit complete game and the Miami Marlins stopped a 10-game road losing streak by beating the Tampa Bay Rays 7-1 on Wednesday. Alcántara (4-9), the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, struck out seven and walked one in his second complete game this season and 11th overall. He had been 0-3 in four July starts with one no decision.

‘We just need to keep continuing to play hard,’ Luis Arraez said.

After Colorado mounted a late comeback win against the Miami Marlins on Saturday, right-hander Justin Lawrence credited the success of the bullpen for helping the Rockies win five of seven games since the All-Star break. Lawrence worked a scoreless ninth inning for his seventh save and was part of a bullpen effort that helped the Rockies rally from an early three-run deficit to beat the Marlins 4-3, handing Miami its season-high eighth straight loss.

‘We were winning games [in the first half] that we’re losing now,’ Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said. ‘It’s part of the season. You have winning streaks. You have losing streaks. It’s just how you bounce back and how you get out of these things.’