Ten-run inning lifts Marlins to 14-7 rout of Diamondbacks

Marlins rout Diamondbacks 14-7

PHOENIX — Pinch-hitter Brett Carroll’s three-run homer sparked a franchise-record 10-run eighth inning, and the Florida Marlins stormed back from a seven-run deficit to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks 14-7 on Thursday night.

Florida matched the team record for the biggest comeback victory and Arizona set a club record for the largest blown lead.

When Florida’s eighth inning finally ended, the remnants of a Chase Field crowd of 21,558 stood and applaud derisively.

Florida trailed 7-0 after five innings but rallied with three runs in the sixth and one in the seventh. Then the Marlins hit Arizona with the 10-spot in the eighth to make a winner of Kiko Calero (2-0).

The Marlins sent 14 batters to the plate in the eighth against three relievers — Juan Gutierrez, Scott Schoeneweis (1-1) and Blaine Boyer.

After pinch-hitter Ross Gload drove in the first run with a fielder’s choice grounder, Carroll hit a three-run shot to left field off Schoeneweis to give Florida an 8-7 lead. It was Carroll’s first career pinch-hit homer and the first by a Marlin this season.

The carnage was only beginning.

Dan Uggla, Cody Ross and Jeremy Hermida followed with RBI singles, and John Baker drove in a run with a double.

Another run scored on a passed ball charged to Luke Carlin, and the final run came in on Gload’s second fielder’s choice grounder.

Three pinch-hitters — Gload, Carroll and Hanley Ramirez — each batted twice in the inning.

Jorge Cantu and Hermida homered in the sixth, and Uggla had four hits.

Arizona began building its lead in the first inning. After Augie Ojeda singled, Justin Upton broke out of a 1-for-12 slump with a shot just inside the left field foul pole off Andrew Miller.

Arizona scored four runs in the third, all with two outs, on Gerardo Parra’s RBI single, Chris Young’s two-run triple and Tony Clark’s RBI double.

Miller left after 2 2-3 innings, his shortest outing. He gave up five hits and six runs, two earned, and walked three.

The Marlins closed to 7-3 in the sixth on a two-run shot by Cantu to the left field seats and a solo homer by Hermida to the pool area in right-center field, both off Arizona starter Yusmeiro Petit.

The Marlins made it 7-4 in the seventh on Chris Coghlan’s RBI double.

NOTES: Ramirez, who has a right hip flexor, did not start for the fifth straight game, but he singled and walked as a pinch-hitter in the eighth. … Arizona RHP Tom Gordon, out since May 4 with a strained left hamstring, will throw a batting practice session on Friday and could begin a minor league rehab stint next week.