David Weathers won for the second time in two major-league starts, and Florida won consecutive road games for the first time in three months.
Weathers (2-0) allowed two runs and eight hits over six innings with three strikeouts and two walks. Bryan Harvey, the sixth Marlins pitcher, earned his 43rd save with a scoreless ninth inning, helping give the expansion team back-to-back road wins for the first time since June 4-7, when they followed a three-game sweep at San Diego with a victory at Dodger Stadium.
Weathers has surrendered two runs and 11 hits in his first 14 innings as a starter, after 25 relief appearances with the Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays. In his other start last Monday at San Diego, the right-hander pitched eight scoreless innings and allowed three hits, combining with Harvey on a 2-0 victory.
After opening the scoring in the third inning with an RBI single by Rich Renteria, the Marlins increased their lead to 3-0 in the fourth against Tom Candiotti (8-7) with a run-scoring groundout by Walt Weiss and an RBI single by Chuck Carr. Darrell Whitmore led off the inning with a single and took third on a double by Bob Natal.
The Dodgers closed the gap to 3-2 on a fifth-inning RBI single by Eric Karros and Cory Snyder’s 10th homer in the sixth.
Candiotti sustained his 100th career defeat against 103 victories, allowing three runs and eight hits over eight innings with three strikeouts and two walks. The right-hander’s winless streak reached five games, and the loss was his first at Dodger Stadium in nine starts dating back to a 2-0 decision June 6 against Atlanta.
Weiss led off the Marlins’ third with an infield hit and came home when Renteria lined a single just out of the reach of a diving Jody Reed. Moments later, the Dodger second baseman missed Jeff Conine’s bloop double down the right-field line on a diving try, but Candiotti fanned Bret Barberie with the bases loaded after a walk to Orestes Destrade.
