Casey Schmitt made up for a baserunning blunder with a two-run homer, Drew Gilbert and Heliot Ramos added solo shots, and the San Francisco Giants evened their three-game home series against the Miami Marlins at a game apiece with a 6-2 triumph Saturday afternoon.

Robbie Ray combined with four relievers on a six-hitter, lifting the Giants to their first home win over the Marlins since August of 2024.

Miami had won six straight in San Francisco, including 9-4 in the series opener Friday night.

Xavier Edwards gave the Marlins a 1-0 lead in the rematch with an RBI single in the third inning that scored Agustin Ramirez, but the Giants dominated the action after that.

San Francisco finally broke through against Miami starter Eury Perez (2-2) in the fifth when Gilbert launched a leadoff homer, his second of the season, to tie the game at 1-1.

Schmitt’s homer, his third of the year, came two batters after Matt Chapman had doubled leading off the sixth. Patrick Bailey’s two-out RBI single against Marlins reliever Anthony Bender made it a three-run inning and a 4-1 game.

Earlier in a scoreless contest, Schmitt had blooped a double down the left-field line. After momentarily considering stretching the hit into a triple, he slipped rounding second base and was thrown out by shortstop Otto Lopez.

Jung Hoo Lee then followed with a double, but the Giants failed to score in the inning.

Ray, who did not get a decision, threw the first five innings, limiting the Marlins to one run and four hits. He struck out four and walked three.

Matt Gage (2-0), Keaton Winn, Erik Miller and Ryan Walker each followed with an inning of work.

Perez was lifted during the three-run sixth, charged with four runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out six.

Ramos’ homer, his third of the year, led off the eighth against the third Miami pitcher, Tyler Phillips. San Francisco added an insurance run later in the inning on an RBI double by Luis Arraez.

Schmitt, Ramos, Lee and Arraez had two hits apiece for the Giants, who out-hit the Marlins 11-6 en route to snapping a two-game losing streak.

Edwards and Ramirez collected two hits each for the Marlins, who capped the day’s scoring on a run-scoring single by Jakob Marsee in the ninth.

–Field Level Media

Nasim Nunez had a pair of two-run singles, one of which capped off a breakout 10th inning to help the Washington Nationals come away with a 6-3 victory over the host Chicago White Sox Saturday afternoon.

After Washington plated its first two runs in the 10th on a wild pitch followed by a bases-loaded walk issued by Jordan Leasure (2-1), Nunez hit a slow roller through the right side to double the Nationals’ lead. He finished with four of Washington’s five RBIs, nearly doubling his total of six RBIs he had in his first 24 games this season.

Cionel Perez (2-3) worked around two walks for a scoreless ninth inning and Brad Lord pitched the 10th for the Nationals, who snapped a three-game losing streak despite stranding 10 runners on base.

Only the automatic runner scored in the 10th for Chicago, which had won four of five. Miguel Vargas had a double and a pair of walks for the White Sox, who were 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position and stranded 12 runners.

Washington starter Jake Irvin scattered four hits over his scoreless 5 2/3-inning outing, walking none and striking out nine — his most since April 20, 2025. He ended his outing by striking out the final five batters he faced.

Mitchell Parker replaced Irvin and struck out the first batter he faced to wrap up just the second four-strikeout inning in Nationals history in the sixth after the leadoff batter reached via dropped third strike.

Chicago starter Noah Schultz allowed two runs on four hits over a career-high six innings, striking out a career-high eight in his third major league start.

Nunez came through with a seeing-eye single up the middle with two outs in the top of the fourth, scoring Brady House and Daylen Lile after they began the inning with back-to-back walks.

After the White Sox got nothing out of putting two on with no outs in the bottom of the seventh, they had that opportunity again in the eighth. This time, Chicago came through, tying the game at 2 on Everson Pereira’s RBI single followed by Chase Meidroth’s sacrifice fly.

A Derek Hill strikeout stranded the go-ahead run at third base.

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It might not get much better than this for English brothers Matt Fitzpatrick and Alex Fitzpatrick.

The duo began to break away from the pack by shooting a tournament-record 15-under 57 during the third round of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Saturday at Avondale, La.

“I think I can think of one bad shot that we both hit, and that was me,” Matt Fitzpatrick said. “Yeah, it was an awesome day.”

The Fitzpatricks were sparked by Matt’s eagle on the par-5 seventh hole and maintained the momentum during the four-ball format to carry a four-stroke lead into the final round at TPC Louisiana. This is the PGA Tour’s only team event.

The Fitzpatrick team is at 30 under. Davis Thompson/Austin Eckroat (61) and second-round leaders Alex Smalley/Hayden Springer (62) are next at 26 under. The team of Doug Ghim/Jeffrey Kang (61) is at 25 under.

The Fitzpatrick brothers could be headed toward special territory given that last year’s winning score was 28 under from the team of Ben Griffin/Andrew Novak.

“He played brilliant golf both of the last two days,” Matt said of this brother. “His game has really turned a corner these last few months, and I believe in him to continue that trend.”

The Fitzpatricks posted birdies on eight of the nine holes on the backside. They were without a bogey and had four pars.

They each provided the best score seven times.

Matt Fitzpatrick, the older of the brothers, has been on a roll recently, including winning last week’s RBC Heritage.

“Playing alongside my brother, who happens also to be one of the best players in the world is pretty fun,” Alex said. “When he’s playing well, it’s pretty cool to watch.”

The Fitzpatricks placed 11th in the Zurich Classic in 2024 and then missed the cut last year.

The format goes back to foursomes for the final round.

“Your mindset is kind of changed from day-to-day, so (Sunday) will be a different animal,” Thompson said. “Hopefully we can get off to a good start and put some pressure on those guys.”

Smalley said there won’t be an overhaul in strategy.

“I think if we just kind of stick to what we’re doing, just trying to give ourselves as many looks as we can,” he said. “I think that will serve us pretty well.”

The teams pursuing the Fitzpatricks don’t want to become overly consumed by the chase.

“At the end of the day, you have to hit your good shots and try to pick up after your partner if you need to,” Kang said.

Seven teams were in the lead or one shot back by mid-afternoon Saturday.

Then there was the case of Davis Chatfield and Belgium’s Adrien Dumont de Chassart. They were 9 under through 11 holes after Dumont de Chassart ‘s eagle on No. 2, which was the pairing’s 11th hole of the day. But they played the rest of the way at 1 over without another birdie.

Until some of the final groups came in, the day’s best score of 61 belonged to Canada’s A.J. Ewart and South Africa’s Casey Jarvis. That moved them to 22 under and in a tie for 10th place.

“Kind of ham-and-egged it, as some would say,” Ewart said. “Kind of working in shifts and not birdieing the same holes, but making sure we’re setting our partners up to kind of free will it and go at it.”

–Field Level Media