Turner hits leadoff homer in Phillies’ 5-2 win over Marlins

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Philadelphia Phillies’ Trea Turner watches after hitting a solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Monday, June 16, 2025, in Miami. AP PHOTO/LYNNE SLADKY

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MIAMI >> Trea Turner hit a leadoff homer and added two singles as the Philadelphia Phillies extended their winning streak to five games with a 5-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series.

Max Kepler also went deep and Alec Bohm had two hits and two RBIs for the Phillies.

Rookie Mick Abel (2-0) threw five innings of one-run ball in his fourth major league start. The 23-year-old right-hander scattered three hits and struck out three. Orion Kerkering closed with a perfect ninth for his first career save.

Kepler snapped a 1-all tie with a solo blast in the fourth. He drove a slider from Miami starter Sandy Alcántara into the seats in right field for his ninth of the season.

Turner’s RBI single in the seventh made it 3-1 before Miami narrowed the deficit on a sacrifice fly Agustín Ramírez in the eighth.

Philadelphia padded its lead in the ninth on Bohm’s two-run single.

Alcántara (3-8) allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner struck out five, moving past Josh Johnson for second on the Marlins’ career strikeout list with 834.

Turner hit the second pitch of the game over the wall in center. It was Turner’s 18th career leadoff homer and second this season.

Miami tied it on Connor Norby’s RBI single in the second.

Marlins’ centerfielder Dane Myers exited in the third after he was drilled in the left elbow by a 95-mph fastball from Abel during his plate appearance in the second.

Rockies 6, Nationals 4 >> Hunter Goodman homered twice, including a tying shot in the ninth inning, and then Mickey Moniak connected for a two-run drive that gave the Colorado Rockies a victory over the skidding Washington Nationals.

Colorado entered with 57 losses this season, tied with the 1932 Boston Red Sox for the most in the modern era (since 1901) through 71 games. Both the Rockies and Red Sox won their 72nd game.

Washington has lost nine straight overall.

Goodman tied it 4-all with a solo shot to left-center — his 13th homer of the season to lead National League catchers.

Moniak, who tripled in the fifth and scored on Michael Toglia’s single for a 3-1 lead, sent a two-run homer into the bullpen in right field to put Colorado ahead with his eighth home run this season.

Seth Halvorsen walked the leadoff batter in the bottom of the ninth before getting a double play and a groundout to earn his fourth save. Victor Vodnik (2-2) pitched a scoreless eighth.

Kyle Finnegan (0-2) was handed his fifth blown save of the season.

Thirteen of Colorado’s last 20 games have been decided by two or fewer runs, with the Rockies going 6-14 during that span.