MIAMI (AP) — Bryson Stott hit a three-run homer, Brandon Marsh added a two-run shot and the NL East-leading Philadelphia Phillies beat the Miami Marlins 9-3 on Friday night.
The Phillies went deep four times, including solo shots from Max Kepler and Harrison Bader. Every Phillies starter had at least one hit, and they finished with 16 total.
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Philadelphia Phillies' Trea Turner hits a single during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Miami Marlins starting pitcher Valente Bellozo aims a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cristopher Sánchez aims a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh hits a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Bryson Stott throws to first base to complete the double play during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Trea Turner went 4 for 5, his second time recording four hits against the Marlins this season.
Cristopher Sánchez (12-5) pitched seven effective innings, allowing one run on six hits while striking out five and walking one. Tanner Banks relieved Sánchez in the eighth.
Stott broke the game open in the seventh when he lined a shot into the Phillies' bullpen against reliever George Soriano to make it 9-1.
Brian Navarreto, an eighth-inning defensive replacement, pulled the Marlins within 9-3 with his first career home run, a two-run drive to center against Banks.
Kepler hit a solo shot into the second deck off Marlins starter Valente Bellozo (1-4) in the second. Marsh drilled a 420-foot, two-run shot to left-center off reliever Lake Bachar in the fourth, and Bader went deep in the next at-bat to put Philadelphia ahead 5-1.
NL homer run-leader Kyle Schwarber (49) singled twice. He hasn't homered in the seven games since his four-home run outing against Atlanta on Aug. 28.
Javier Sanoja hit an RBI double in the third, Miami's only run scored against Sánchez.
Bellozo allowed two runs and four hits in three innings, striking out two.
Bachar replaced Bellozo in the third with the Marlins trailing 2-1, but gave up three straight hits — including the homers by Marsh and Bader — as Philadelphia extended its lead.
Sánchez's 12 wins are a career high, surpassing his previous career-best 11 wins in 2024.
Philadelphia LHP Jesús Luzardo (12-6, 4.06 ERA) will start the second game of the series Saturday against Miami RHP Sandy Alcantara (8-11, 5.66).
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Philadelphia Phillies' Trea Turner hits a single during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Miami Marlins starting pitcher Valente Bellozo aims a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cristopher Sánchez aims a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh hits a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Bryson Stott throws to first base to complete the double play during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was at the White House on Thursday discussing her country's future with President Donald Trump even after he publicly dismissed her credibility to take over after an audacious U.S. military raid captured then-President Nicolás Maduro.
Trump has raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in Venezuela. His administration has signaled its willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who was Maduro’s vice president and, along with others in the deposed leader’s inner circle, remains in charge of day-to-day governmental operations.
In endorsing Rodríguez so far, Trump has sidelined Machado, who has long been a face of resistance in Venezuela and sought to cultivate relationships with Trump and key administration voices like Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the American right wing in a gamble to ally herself with the U.S. government.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump was expecting a positive discussion during the lunchtime meeting and called Machado “a remarkable and brave voice” for the people of Venezuela.
The White House said Machado sought the face-to-face meeting without setting expectations for what would occur. Her party is widely believed to have won 2024 elections rejected by Maduro. Machado previously offered to share with Trump the Nobel Peace Prize she won last year, an honor he has coveted.
Leavitt said Trump is committed to seeing Venezuela hold elections “one day,” but wouldn’t say when that might happen.
Machado plans to have a meeting at the Senate later Thursday. Trump has called her “a nice woman” while indicating they might not touch on major issues in their talks Thursday.
Her Washington swing began after U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says had ties to Venezuela. It is part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil after U.S. forces seized Maduro and his wife at a heavily guarded compound in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges.
The White House says Venezuela has been fully cooperating with the Trump administration since Maduro’s ouster.
Rodríguez, the acting president, herself has adopted a less strident position toward Trump and his “America First” policies toward the Western Hemisphere, saying she plans to continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro — a move thought to have been made at the behest of the Trump administration. Venezuela released several Americans this week.
Trump, a Republican, said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.
“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump said during an Oval Office bill signing. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”
Even before indicating the willingness to work with Venezuela's interim government, Trump was quick to snub Machado. Just hours after Maduro's capture, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country.”
Machado has steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which Trump wanted to win himself. She has since thanked Trump. Her offer to share the peace prize with him was rejected by the Nobel Institute.
Machado’s whereabouts have been largely unknown since she went into hiding early last year after being briefly detained in Caracas. She briefly reappeared in Oslo, Norway, in December after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.
The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.
A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush. A photo showing her shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office lives in the collective memory. Chávez considered Bush an adversary.
Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown by state security forces.
Garcia Cano reported from Caracas, Venezuela, and Janetsky from Mexico City. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
FILE - U.S. President George Bush, right, meets with Maria Corina Machado, executive director of Sumate, a non-governmental organization that defends Venezuelan citizens' political rights, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures to supporters during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro the day before his inauguration for a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)
