Jorge Soler’s two massive home runs lead Miami Marlins past Arizona Diamondbacks

Jorge Soler hit a pair of towering home runs to lift the Miami Marlins to a 6-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday at Chase Field.

Miami improves to 18-19 on the season. Arizona falls to 20-16.

This was the second time Soler has had a multi-homer game this season. The other came on April 5 against the Minnesota Twins. He now has a team-leading nine home runs and 20 RBI this season.

Soler’s first home run of the game — a three-run shot to left field in the second inning — went a projected 468 feet. That tied for his longest home run tracked by Statcast (since the start of the 2015 season) and is the 12th home run overall by a Marlins player in that span.

Soler and Giancarlo Stanton are the only two with multiple home runs of at least 468 feet for the Marlins.

His second home run, this time a two-run homer in the fifth, also went to left field but this one only went 433 feet.

The two swings backed a solid performance from starting pitcher Jesus Luzardo, who held the Diamondbacks to one run over six innings while striking out five. Huascar Brazoban (scoreless seventh inning, two strikeouts), Matt Barnes (one run allowed in eighth inning) and Dylan Floro (scoreless ninth inning) pitched the final three innings out of the bullpen.

Before Soler’s home runs, the Marlins opened scoring on a Luis Arraez one-out single in the first inning that scored Jazz Chisholm Jr., who led off the game with a single and stole second. The single extended Arraez’s hit streak to 12 games. Chisholm reached base in each of his first three plate appearances and stole two bases to bring his season total to 13 (and career total to 50).

Archie Bradley to Jacksonville

Veteran relief pitcher Archie Bradley, who the Marlins signed to a minor-league deal on April 11, was added to the Triple Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp’s roster on Tuesday.

Bradley, 30, spent the past month at the Marlins’ spring training facility in Jupiter to get built up for regular work. He was not with a team during spring training.

“He’s good,” Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said shortly after the signing. “A former closer. When you have former closers in your bullpen, that’s what really good teams have in their bullpens — former closers throwing in the sixth, seventh, eighth innings. They’ve been there before, been in leverage spots, pressure situations. I feel like he got a raw deal with the injury and bench clearing brawl. Maybe lucky us, you know. We’ll see how he does. He’s been building up the right way and he’s ready for an opportunity. We’ll see how he looks in the minor leagues as far as being built up, but anytime you can add a former closer, it can only help you.”

Bradley has a career 3.92 ERA, 480 strikeouts and 32 saves over eight MLB seasons spent with the Diamondbacks (2015-2020), Cincinnati Reds (2020), Philadelphia Phillies (2021) and Los Angeles Angels (2022).

He only made 21 appearances in 2022 before breaking his elbow when he fell over a railing during a benches-clearing brawl during a late June game between the Angels and Seattle Mariners.

J.T. Chargois rehab update

Marlins right-handed relief pitcher J.T. Chargois pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings for Triple A Jacksonville on Tuesday in his second rehab assignment outing while recovering from a right oblique strain.

Chargois allowed just one hit while striking out three. He threw 26 pitches, 15 of which landed for strikes.