Rogers talks first rough outing of spring. And Schumaker’s plan for players back from WBC

After three solid outings to open spring training, Trevor Rogers his first hiccup on Friday.

The Miami Marlins’ lefty gave up eight runs on seven hits, two walks and a hit-by-pitch while recording 12 outs, two of which were strikeouts, in a 16-2 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals — the early game of Miami’s split squad — at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium.

Rogers was pulled with bases loaded and one out in the second after throwing 26 pitches, returned to pitch well in the third and fourth and was pulled again with two on and two outs in the fifth. All five runners he left on base scored.

“I just wasn’t attacking the zone at all,” Rogers said. “I was just trying to live on the edges, trying to be too fine with it. Just at the end of the day, I wasn’t doing what I’m really good at, which is attacking the zone. It’s a simple fix. I’ve got another five days to clean it up and get ready for the next one.”

Prior to his outing Wednesday, Rogers had given up just two runs over nine innings through his first three starts.

Rogers is trying to rebound from a disappointing 2022 season in which he had a 5.47 ERA and allowed opponents to hit .274 against him over 23 starts and 107 innings.

“He’s motivated,” Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said, “and you can see in his work that he wants to prove that [2022] was an outlier type of year.”

Plan for returning WBC players

The Marlins got three of their top players who participated in the World Baseball Classic back in camp much earlier than expected.

The Dominican Republic, expected to be one of the top teams in the tournament, was eliminated in pool play, so pitchers Sandy Alcantara and Johnny Cueto along with infielder Jean Segura are back with the Marlins in Jupiter.

“Honestly,” Schumaker said, “I didn’t think that we’d have the DR guys back yet. I thought they’d be in the championship honestly. Stinks for them. Great for me and us, so I’ll take it.”

The plan now is to get them as active as possible.

Segura, who had just two at-bats in four World Baseball Classic games, led off in Miami’s early game against St. Louis. He had two hits including an RBI single and a double and played six innings of defense at third base.

Alcantara will start on Saturday, one day later than originally scheduled, and is slated to pitch five innings or up to 75 to 80 pitches.

Cueto is scheduled to pitch Monday.

Two mainstays on Miami’s roster are still playing in the tournament for Venezuela - infielder Luis Arraez and pitcher Jesus Luzardo. Venezuela plays its quarterfinal on Saturday against the United States, with the winner playing Cuba in a semifinal on Sunday. The championship is on Tuesday. All games are at 7 p.m. and being played at loanDepot park.

Eury Perez holds own against Mets

Right-handed pitcher Eury Perez, the top pitcher in the Marlins’ organization and a consensus top-15 prospect in all of baseball, started the Marlins’ second game on Friday against the New York Mets at Clover Park.

The 19-year-old held his own for three innings before running into trouble in the fourth against a lineup that features at least five players who should get regular playing time for the Mets as well as top catcher prospect Francisco Alvarez.

His final line: Five runs (four earned runs) allowed on four hits and a walk with three strikeouts. He threw 60 pitches, 40 of which landed for strikes.

“I was just trying to work on my pitches,” Perez said. “I thought the first couple innings went well. The last one, not that good. We continue working.”

Four of the five runs came in the fourth inning. He loaded the bases on a Daniel Vogelbach single, Mark Canha double and a catcher’s interference during Darin Ruf’s plate appearance before Luis Guillorme drove them all home with a double to right. Guillorme scored after Perez left the game for the final run.

Perez’s three strikeouts were to Canha, Starling Marte and Danny Mendick.

“The last couple hitters that he faced toward the end, you could see he was getting a little bit tired,” Schumaker said. “Left a couple balls probably up and over the middle ... But otherwise, he faced some really good players, a lot of every day players in their lineup and showed what he can do.”

Perez was originally scheduled to start for the Marlins on Wednesday against the Washington Nationals, but that game got rained out so Miami pushed his start to Friday.

New perspective for Garrett Cooper

Garrett Cooper is finishing up his first year of fatherhood, and the Marlins’ first baseman said it has given him a “different view on life.”

Reagan Olivia Cooper turns 1 on Saturday.

“There’s more to life than coming in here for eight months straight,” Cooper said. “You go home and get to experience her love and her happiness toward you, not knowing if you had a good game or bad game. She doesn’t really care. ... You do this for her and your family.”

Jazz homers

Center fielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a solo home run off the Cardinals’ Jordan Hicks in the eighth inning, sending a near middle-middle sinker a projected 412 feet to left-center field.

It was Chisholm’s second home run of spring training.

Injury update

Catcher Nick Fortes played just two innings of the Marlins’ game against the Cardinals on Friday before leaving with right knee tendinitis, Schumaker said. Fortes is day-to-day.

“I wasn’t willing to really risk anything,” Schumaker said, “so I got him out of there.”