SAN FRANCISCO—Griffin Conine hit his first career home run and the Miami Marlins beat the San Francisco Giants 4–3 on Saturday night.
Conine, the son of longtime Marlins stalwart Jeff Conine, made his major league debut Monday and got his first hit Tuesday. His first homer was a two-run shot off the right-field foul pole in the second inning, when he ripped a fastball up in the zone from Giants starter Mason Black to give Miami a 2–0 lead.
The Giants (68–69) remained 6 1/2 games out of a National League playoff spot, with four teams to climb over.
Michael Conforto homered in the eighth for the Giants to cut the deficit to 4–3, but Calvin Faucher retired the side in order in the ninth for his fifth save.
Connor Norby, who had his 10-game hitting streak snapped Friday, launched a solo homer in the sixth to put the NL-worst Marlins up 3–1 after the Giants scored a run in the fifth.
Miami added an insurance run in the seventh to make it 4–2 when Otto Lopez scored on a groundout by David Hensley. Lopez led off with a walk, stole second after an umpire ruled that shortstop Tyler Fitzgerald didn’t give him a proper sliding lane, and went to third on a groundball with one out.
Edward Cabrera (3–6), who lost his previous three starts, held the Giants to one earned run in five-plus innings.
Fitzgerald had an RBI single in the sixth that trimmed it to 3–2.
