Miami offense got going too late in second consecutive loss at Florida

Florida scored two runs off of Miami starter Griffin Hugus in five innings, added two more in the sixth and the Hurricanes offense arrived too late in a 6-3 loss in Gainesville. Three Florida pitchers shut out Miami for seven innings before Daniel Cuvet finally got Miami on the board with a two-run home run in the seventh inning.

Florida took the lead on a Bobby Boser fourth-inning home run and the score stayed that way until the sixth - Hugus was pulled after walking Ashton Wilson to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning. A.J. Ciscar relieved Hugus and allowed an RBI double to Landon Stripling that scored Wilson to extend Florida's lead to 2-0.

Two batters later, Luke Heyman hit a two-run HR to put Florida up 4-0. Cuvet's HR got Miami back into the game in the top of the eighth. Heyman answered with his second two-run HR in the bottom of the eighth to put Florida back up by four runs. Doran Gonzalez had an RBI single in the ninth, but that was it as Miami lost.

Hugus pitched five innings, allowing four hits, two earned runs, with three walks and 10 strikeouts. Five Florida pitchers combined to allow six Miami hits, with five walks and 10 strikeouts. Stripling had three hits and scored two runs and Heyman had the four RBIs to pace the Florida offense.

Six Miami hitters spread out the half-dozen hits for the Hurricanes. The Miami bullpen allowed four runs on five hits with a walk and two strikeouts in three innings. That doesn't include Wilson being an inherited runner by Ciscar who scored on the Stripling double.

Florida will start right-hander Jake Clemente (1-0, 1.80 ERA) versus Miami RHP Brian Walters (2-0, 0.82 ERA) in the series finale on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET with the Hurricanes attempting to avoid the sweep and Florida taking over the all-time series lead for the first time since the 1960s.