ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays’ 11-game home winning streak ended in spectacular fashion Saturday when the Miami Marlins erupted for eight runs in the 10th inning to win 10-5 at Tropicana Field.

Reliever Hunter Bigge, who entered the game having retired 15 consecutive batters — and 19 of his last 20 — allowed six hits, walked two and threw 29 pitches while facing 10 batters in the disastrous 10th. “It’s brutal,” Bigge said. “I want to pitch better for this team. I feel pretty bad right now, but I’ve got to keep forging ahead.”

Joe Mack led off the 10th with a single, sending automatic runner Esteury Ruiz to third. Bigge walked Xavier Edwards to load the bases, and Liam Hicks followed with a two-run single that opened the floodgates. “You walk two guys … you can’t allow free passes there,” Bigge said. “I felt like it all happened pretty quickly. There were a lot of quick hits that added up. I don’t really have an explanation for it.”

The game reached extra innings after catcher Nick Fortes delivered a two-out RBI single in the ninth off ex-Rays closer Pete Fairbanks to tie it. The Marlins had taken a 2-1 lead in the top of the ninth on Javier Sanoja’s two-out RBI double off closer Bryan Baker. “With the extra innings starting with a guy on second, I think it just heightened things a little bit,” Fortes said. “It’s going to happen. We can’t be perfect every day. You’d like to be, but there will be certain days or even innings where it just kind of slips away. That’s baseball. It happens. We’ll come back tomorrow with the same intensity and hopefully win a series.”

Rays right-hander Nick Martinez turned in another dominant outing with six shutout innings, extending his streak to nine straight starts allowing two or fewer runs to begin the season. That is tied for the longest such streak by a pitcher age 35 or older in the Modern Era (1900-present) with A.J. Burnett in 2015. “He just goes out there and limits runs, and he’s doing it with some swing-and-miss from the changeup, and executing pitches with the fastball and the cutter to keep guys off-balance,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.

Chandler Simpson’s third-inning RBI single had given Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead that held until left-handed reliever Garrett Cleavinger surrendered a 439-foot pinch-hit homer to Heriberto Hernández in the seventh. The Rays showed fight after the eight-run 10th, scoring three runs on a two-run double off the wall from Junior Caminero and an RBI double from Jonathan Aranda.

“I felt bad for Hunter. He has done really well for us. Today was a little bit of a hiccup,” Cash said. He added that the late rally kept the loss from stinging worse: “We would’ve walked away from that feeling really frustrated, just the way that inning unfolded. But guys had some big swings, and they’re better for it going into [Sunday’s] game.” Cash also credited the Marlins’ approach: “They’ve got some speed over there. If they move the baseball, it’s challenging to convert outs.”

The Rays and Marlins close the series Sunday at Tropicana Field.