For fourth time in seven games, Marlins lose an extra-inning game, this time to the Rays

For the fourth time in the past seven games, the Miami Marlins played a game that went into extra innings.

For the fourth time in those four games, the Marlins lost.

This time, it was a 2-1 defeat to the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday at loanDepot park to cap a two-game series and a 1-5 six-game homestand.

The Marlins (55-75) lost all four games to the Rays (72-57) this year, losing both games in St. Petersburg in late May and both games in Miami the past two days.

Miami also lost in extra innings to the Oakland Athletics on Aug. 24 on the road and twice to the Los Angeles Dodgers (Friday and Monday) this homestand during this stretch. The Marlins are now 7-8 in extra-inning games and 21-29 in one-run games. They finished the month of August with an 8-20 record, including losses in 10 of their final 13 games.

The deciding hit on Wednesday: A Manuel Margot two-out bloop RBI single into shallow right-center field in the 10th inning against Tommy Nance that scored Yu Chang, the Rays’ automatic runner at second base to start extra innings.

The Marlins stranded Jerar Encarnacion at third base as the game-tying run in the bottom of the 10th.

Jon Berti, a late addition to the lineup after Miguel Rojas was scratched due to right wrist tightness, hit a game-tying solo home run in the sixth and made a key double play in the top of the eighth inning. Berti was removed from the game before the ninth inning.

Left-handed pitcher Trevor Rogers, making his first start since July 25 after a month-long stint on the injured list due to a back spasm, held the Rays to just one run over six innings. He scattered five hits and walked one while striking out five.

It was just the third time this season that Rogers has completed six innings in a big-league start and just the second time that he went that deep and held an opponent to one run (also April 28 against the Washington Nationals).

But it’s also worth noting the Rays made their share of solid contact against Rogers. Of the 17 balls the Rays put into play on Wednesday against Rogers, 11 of them had an exit velocity of at least 95 mph — the minimum to be defined as a hard hit by Statcast.

That included both hits he allowed in the sixth — doubles by Yandy Diaz and Harold Ramirez — that resulted in the one run he allowed.

Tanner Scott, Dylan Floro and Steven Okert pitched scoreless seventh, eighth and ninth innings, respectively, to push the game to extra innings.

Injury updates

Rojas said he has been dealing with the wrist since just after the All-Star Break. He sat two games in Cincinnati in late July due to it but has been playing through the injury for the most part. He will see a doctor on Wednesday, but added that ideally he’ll be able to finish out the season.

“I just want to make sure this is something that don’t let escalate,” Rojas said, “but I’m going to try to play. ... After the season is over, I’ll take the recommendation from the doctor, but I feel like I’m capable of playing.”

As for Berti’s hip, he said he felt something after the double-play ball he fielded in the top of the eighth but the soreness really got to him during his 8th inning at-bat (a fielder’s choice).

“We’ll see how it feels tomorrow and go from there,” Berti said.