Eury Perez dominated with seven perfect innings and the Miami Marlins smacked four homers before holding on for a wild 9-8 victory over the Athletics on Sunday at West Sacramento, Calif., to complete a three-game sweep.

The Marlins immediately lost the perfect game and no-hitter in the eighth inning once Perez was pulled as Lake Bachar walked Lawrence Butler and gave up a single to Joshua Kuroda-Grauer. Still, Miami won for the 13th time in its past 17 games to move to a season-best seven games above .500.

Perez (5-6) struck out eight while throwing 92 pitches. It’s the third time the 23-year-old has pitched seven innings in his career.

Heriberto Hernandez reached base five times on three hits and two walks, including two homers, and Otto Lopez had three hits, one homer and three RBIs to raise his major league-best average to .346.

Leo Jimenez also went deep for the Marlins, who set a franchise record with 12 homers for a three-game series.

Xavier Edwards, Liam Hicks and Brian Navarreto added two hits apiece for the Marlins.

Jonah Heim belted a grand slam and had a career-high six RBIs for the Athletics, who lost for the 11th time in 14 games.

Gage Jump (3-3) of the Athletics was roughed up for six runs and eight hits over three innings.

Amazingly, the A’s had the winning run up at the plate in the bottom of the ninth.

Trailing 9-5, Zack Gelof singled off Pete Fairbanks to start the ninth and Butler followed with a double. Gelof scored on a passed ball by Joe Mack before Fairbanks retired the next two batters.

Fairbanks then walked Max Muncy, who moved to second on defensive indifference, and Heim delivered a two-run single. Brian Serven then grounded out to end the contest.

After an afternoon of futile at-bats against Perez, the Athletics quickly rallied against Bachar.

Butler walked for the first A’s baserunner and Kuroda-Grauer followed with a high shallow pop that fell in right field for the first hit. Carlos Cortes followed with a RBI double that one-hopped the right-field wall.

After Muncy walked to load the bases, Heim unloaded them with his blast to right to make it five runs in five batters since Perez exited.

Serven followed with a bloop single to end Bachar’s outing. Michael Peterson entered and used a fielder’s choice, a caught stealing and a strikeout of Nick Kurtz to halt the uprising.

In the top of the ninth, Lopez reached on an infield hit and eventually scored on Hicks’ infield tap out.

Hernandez was the second batter of the game against Jump when he launched a 437-foot blast to center.

The Marlins tacked on two runs in the second on Lopez’s ground-rule double and Hicks’ sacrifice fly.

Jimenez’s two-run homer in the third made it 5-0. Lopez added a sacrifice fly later in the inning.

Lopez and Hernandez hit back-to-back homers off Mason Barnett in the sixth to make it 8-0.

–Field Level Media

Olivia Miles’ eyes lit up when she was asked to describe the components of a great pick-and-roll play.

Minnesota’s rookie point guard stood a couple feet from her teammate, Natasha Howard, who has thrived as the Lynx’s paint presence in pick-and-roll actions.

“Ooh, that’s a great question,” Miles said. “I think one is synergy: It’s knowing where she wants to be. And two: It’s on her and her getting me open first.

“So she gets me open first and then I get her open, if that makes sense. It’s like a one-two punch.”

The Lynx (15-5) will look to keep the punches coming when they tip off against the Connecticut Sun (4-16) on Monday evening in Minneapolis. It is the first game of a home-and-home series between the teams, who will travel to Connecticut for a follow-up game Wednesday evening.

Minnesota aims to bounce back from a 99-86 loss against the New York Liberty on Friday. Despite the setback, the Lynx have won five of their past seven games.

Napheesa Collier remained sidelined Friday as she recovers from offseason surgery on her ankle. She returned to practice last week, and her return is imminent.

Howard said she and her teammates cannot wait to welcome back Collier, who averaged 22.9 points and 7.3 rebounds last season. It is uncertain whether Collier will return Monday, but either way she is close to coming back to the court.

“We’re all excited that Phee is coming back pretty soon,” Howard said. “The things that she’s capable of doing, it’s going to be extremely fun out there with me and her on the floor, with (Miles) — how the rotation is going to be, it’s going to be really fun.”

Meanwhile, Connecticut would like to have more fun after a rough start to the season.

The Sun lost seven straight games before winning back-to-back contests against the Chicago Sky and Washington Mystics to end their June schedule. But they could not make it three wins in a row as they lost 86-83 to the Dallas Wings on Thursday.

“It’s a quick turnaround for us,” Sun forward Aaliyah Edwards said. “We’re playing Minnesota, so we’re going to have a ‘next game’ mentality and mindset. Going into that game — our biggest lead was 14 (against Dallas) — we can’t give that up.

“And that started from coming out of the half flat and letting them be the aggressor and then just closing out the game at the end.”

Leila Lacan leads Connecticut with 12.5 points per game to go along with a team-high 4.5 assists. Miles tops Minnesota with 18.5 points and 5.7 assists per contest while Howard scores 17.2 ppg, Courtney Williams is third with 15.9 ppg and Kayla McBride adds 14.8 ppg.

–Field Level Media

Mexico’s Pato O’Ward captured his first victory of the season, winning the Honda Indy 200 on Sunday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.

O’Ward passed Arrow McLaren teammate Christian Lundgaard of Denmark on the 42nd of 90 laps as the duo finished first and second in the 11th of 18 races this season.

The 1-2 finish was McLaren’s first-ever in an IndyCar series race.

O’Ward edged Lundgaard by just 0.9877 of a second. His average speed was 117.932 mph.

“It’s been a year, it’s been a tough one for sure,” O’Ward said. “I think today is just a perfect example of execution. I waited for the perfect time to pounce and from there we just controlled it.”

Kyle Kirkwood (Andretti Global) finished third, followed by Rinus VeeKay of the Netherlands (Juncos Hollinger), current series leader Alex Palou of Spain (Chip Ganassi Racing) and Australian Will Power (Andretti).

Lundgaard led for the majority of the first 41 laps, but made a costly slip in the second turn and O’Ward took advantage with a pass. He calmly navigated the 2.258-mile, 13-turn natural road course for the final 48 laps to claim his 10th career victory.

Power and Josef Newgarden, who finished ninth, each led for two laps early in the race.

O’Ward picked up 53 points for the victory and moved into fifth place with 310. Palou, the IndyCar series defending champion, leads with 404 points, followed by Kirkwood (348), Lundgaard (339) and David Malukas (338) of Team Penske.

The next race will be in two weeks at the Music City Grand Prix at the Nashville Superspeedway in Lebanon, Tenn.

–Field Level Media