Marlins fall to Rays to begin quick two-game series. Quick hits from the loss

The Miami Marlins dropped the opener of a quick two-game series with the Tampa Bay Rays 7-2 on Tuesday at loanDepot park to fall to 55-74 on the season.

Some quick hits from the outing:

▪ The Rays (71-57) did the bulk of their damage in the third and fifth innings. A leadoff walk to Taylor Walls in the third followed by back-to-back doubles by Jose Siri and Yandy Diaz gave Tampa Bay an early 2-0 lead on the Marlins before they scored three more runs in the fifth on a Manuel Margot RBI groundout, Randy Arozarena reaching on a Jesus Luzardo throwing error with two outs and a Harold Ramirez RBI single.

Siri added a solo home run in the seventh off Cole Sulser and ended the night a triple shy of the cycle. Arozarena homered off Andrew Nardi in the ninth to cap scoring.

▪ Luzardo’s final line: Five runs (just three earned runs) allowed on six hits and two walks with four strikeouts. In six August starts since coming off the injured list, Luzardo posted a 2.97 ERA (12 earned runs over 36 1/3 innings) with 32 strikeouts against nine walks. He pitched at least six innings with no more than three earned allowed in four of those six starts.

▪ Miami broke up its shutout in the seventh inning on a two-run double by Jerar Encarnacion, who lifted a Garrett Cleavinger slider that was below the strike zone into left field. Encarnacion’s one-out hit — his second of the game — came after Nick Fortes hit a single and Joey Wendle followed with a ground-rule double.

▪ The near shutout came against a Rays pitching staff that was thrown into a last-minute bullpen game with All-Star Shane McClanahan a last-minute scratch due to a left shoulder impingement. The Marlins had nine hits against the Rays’ assortment of pitchers — a group that included one-time Marlin Shawn Armstrong (three shutout innings), JT Chargois (one scoreless inning), Brooks Raley (one scoreless inning), Cleavinger (1 1/3 innings), Jason Adam (2/3 of a scoreless inning), Pete Fairbanks (one scoreless inning) and Colin Poche (one scoreless inning) — but failed to put together rallies outside of the seventh inning.

Fortes hit a one-out single in the second only to get caught stealing.

Luke Williams and Jon Berti hit back-to-back two-out singles in the third but Williams was thrown out trying to go from first-to-third on Berti’s hit.

A Brian Anderson single in the fourth was erased when Garrett Cooper hit into a double play.

And back-to-back two-out, first-pitch hits by Encarnacion and Peyton Burdick in the fifth were for naught when Williams struck out to strand them.