(Sports Network) - Reigning National League Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum tries for a 10th straight start without a loss today when the San Francisco Giants visit Land Shark Stadium for game three of a four-game series with the Florida Marlins.

Lincecum, who was 18-5 with a sterling 2.62 earned run average in 34 appearances last season, hasn't lost in 2009 since dropping a 6-1 decision at San Diego on April 12, going 4-0 with five no-decisions since.

In his last start, on June 2 at Washington, he was touched for eight hits and two earned runs in 6 1/3 innings of the Giants' 10-6 loss.

Lincecum is 2-1 in six road starts this season, but has never faced the Marlins in 69 major-league appearances.

For Florida, 26-year-old right-hander Ricky Nolasco returns after a two-week stint in the minors.

The California native was sent down to Triple-A New Orleans after his most recent big-league start, in which he allowed eight hits and eight runs in two innings of a 15-2 loss to Tampa Bay on May 22.

He was effective in the banishment, going 1-1 with a 2.40 ERA over two appearances, allowing 12 hits and striking out 12 in 15 innings.

His last win in the majors came May 8 at Colorado.

Nolasco won his lone career start against the Giants after allowing just two hits, walking one and striking out 11 in a scoreless complete-game effort.

On Saturday, Andrew Miller carried a perfect game into the fifth and Ronny Paulino doubled in two runners as part of Florida's three-run home half, as the Marlins held on against San Francisco, 5-4.

Jorge Cantu also doubled in a run in the fifth while Hanley Ramirez doubled twice, scored two runs and drove in one for Florida, which moved to 4-2 on a season-long 11-game residency.

Miller (2-2) was cruising before running into trouble in the middle innings, exiting with the bases loaded and two out in the sixth.

The young left-hander gave up two runs -- one earned -- on four hits and a walk while fanning five. Burke Badenhop escaped the sixth and went on to toss nearly 2 1/3 perfect frames, walking one.

Aaron Rowand's two-run single in the ninth made it a one-run game and Andres Torres hit a two-run double for San Francisco, which had won four of five and entered play riding a season-high three-game win streak on the road. Rowand now has a 16-game hitting streak, the longest active streak in the majors.

Jonathan Sanchez (2-5) was tagged for five runs on eight hits and two walks while fanning seven in 4 2/3 innings. Sanchez was aiming for a second straight win in his 100th major-league appearance.

San Francisco split its six matchups with the Marlins last season, but is 10-5 in the series since the start of the 2007 campaign.