This Marlins pitcher is 0-6. Don't blame him.

Nobody has to tell Jose Urena that the Marlins are the lowest scoring team in the majors.

The hard-luck pitcher for the Marlins knows it first-hand.

Urena's record fell to 0-6 on Sunday when the Marlins provided him no support in a 4-3 loss to the first-place Braves at Marlins Park, scoring all of their runs on a too-little-too-late Justin Bour home run in the ninth.

"He’s throwing the ball good enough to be better than 0-6," said manager Don Mattingly. "He’s been in competitive games, kept us in games, given us a chance to win. We just haven’t been able to put any runs up for him."

The latest setback, the Marlins' sixth loss in their past seven games, resulted in a closed-door, players-only clubhouse meeting afterward. The Marlins are making fundamental mistakes that are costing them, such as a botched pop fly in the first that resulted in the Braves' first run.

But their biggest problem has been their failure to hit and score runs.

For Urena, it's nothing new.

Going into the day, Urena had received the lowest run support of any of the 89 starting pitchers in the majors who had thrown at least 40 innings, a meager 2.11 runs per start. That figure shrunk further Sunday when the Marlins failed to provide him so much as one run for him for the third time in his past four starts.

The Marlins have lost all nine of Urena's outings this season and, dating to last season, Urena has gone 11 consecutive starts without a win. The team record is 12 straight winless starts by Brian Moehler during the 2006 season.

Urena made one bad pitch Sunday, giving up a two-run homer to Ender Inciarte in the sixth. Otherwise, he was on top of his game, holding the Braves to only four hits and a pair of walks over six innings. He was charged with another run on a botched fielding play by backup shortstop Yadiel Rivera, who lost track of a routine pop in the first.

Rivera was going back for the ball to make the catch, but then back off when he said he thought he heard left fielder Cameron Maybin call his name to wave him off. Neither player caught the ball, and a run scored as a direct result.

"Just a miscommunication," Maybin said.

The Braves also scored what proved to be a critical run in the ninth when Starlin Castro couldn't come up with Preston Tucker's ground ball, which was ruled an infield hit.

"That extra run ends up being the difference," Mattingly said.

Until Bour connected on a one-out, three-run homer in the ninth, the Marlins did little offensively against Braves pitching and starter Sean Newcomb (4-1). It was a club-record fifth career pinch-hit home run for Bour.

Compounding matters for the Marlins: both Brian Anderson and Miguel Rojas were taken out late with injuries. Anderson bruised a finger on his right hand while Rojas was hit by a pitch on his left wrist, producing swelling. X-rays for both were negative. Anderson said he felt he would be able to play Tuesday while Rojas said he wasn't sure.

"Right now I couldn't play," Rojas said. "(But), hopefully the off day tomorrow helps and I come back Tuesday."

If Rojas is unable to play, the Marlins could call up shortstop JT Riddle from Triple A New Orleans. Riddle has been on a tear there.

The Marlins apparently also sent word to New Orleans to remove outfielder Magneuris Sierra from their game, but that might have been as a precaution after Anderson came out with his hand injury. Sierra had gone out to take his position when he was summoned back to the dugout. The Marlins acquired Sierra in their trade with the Cardinals for Marcell Ozuna.

This story was originally published May 13, 2018 at 4:01 PM with the headline "This Marlins pitcher is 0-6. Don't blame him.."