TORONTO – Dane Myers hit a three-run home run and finished the game with a career-best RBI, Griffin Conine had three hits and an RBI and the Miami Marlins won a series against 8-1 for the first time since 2009 Toronto win over the Blue Jays on Saturday.

Miami’s Jesús Sánchez scored three runs for the second straight game. Xzavion Curry (2-2) allowed one run and two hits in five innings in his first start against Miami, which won its third straight game.

Darren McCaughan pitched the final four innings and earned his second save in two chances.

Miami had gone winless in its last eight series against Toronto, losing six and splitting two. The Marlins won a three-game road series against the Blue Jays in June 2009.

Backup coach Luis Urueta oversaw the Marlins in their penultimate game of the season after manager Skip Schumaker returned to California due to his family’s health issues. Urueta will also referee Sunday’s season finale.

Nathan Lukes hit his first career home run for the Blue Jays – a solo shot in the first inning – but Toronto lost for the ninth time in 11 games. The Blue Jays range in age from 7 to 16 in September.

Toronto slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went 0-for-4 with one strikeout and remains one hit under .200.

Blue Jays starter Yariel Rodríguez (1-8) ended his rookie season with a fifth straight decision loss. The 27-year-old right-hander allowed three runs and four hits in five-plus innings. He walked two and struck out five.

Both of Rodríguez’s walks came in the first and both scored on two RBI hits from Jonah Bride and Conine.

Lukes cut the deficit in half by hitting Curry with a home run in the bottom of the inning, but Miami added three more in the sixth inning. Myers hit a bases-loaded double off the top of the right field wall that tracked reliever Brendon Little before Jhonny Pereda added an RBI single off Erik Swanson.

Myers met Génesis Cabrera in the eighth game, his third of the season.

ROSTER MOVES

Blue Jays: Toronto has recalled RHP Nick Robertson from Triple-A Buffalo and optioned LHP Easton Lucas to the Spring Training Complex.

NEXT

LHP Ryan Weathers (4-6, 3.81 ERA) is expected to start for Miami in Sunday’s season finale. The Blue Jays had not named a starter.

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