After two quiet nights at the plate, the Miami Marlins erupted for 12 runs in Philadelphia, powering past the Phillies to avoid a series sweep and finish their six-game road trip at .500. A five-homer barrage and steady pitching flipped the script in a dominant finale.
The Miami Marlins offense finally showed up in Philadelphia, scoring 12 runs to avoid a series sweep and finish their six-game road trip at .500 before returning to South Florida.
The Marlins after the 12-4 win, moving to 37-38. The Marlins, after struggling to score in the first two games of the series, elected to not have their hitters' meeting before the game instead they “just showed and go,” according to Owen Caissie.
“We don't really think about that,” Caissie said “We go out and try to play our same game every single day, good at-bats, just play good baseball on both sides of the ball.”
The move paid off with Miami hitting five home runs on the day. Kyle Stowers hit his sixth and seventh home runs of the season, while Owen Caissie added his seventh, Joe Mack his third, and Jacob Marsee connected for his fourth.
The Marlins totaled 13 hits, surpassing their output of 12 hits in the opening two games of the series.
Unlike Tuesday night, when they played nowhere close to their best baseball, the Marlins took advantage of their early opportunities to build a 6-4 lead early and never looked back.
The Marlins made it 12-4 after braking the game out late Wed. afternoon. In the final game of the series, it took the Marlins just one inning to match their total offensive output from the previous two games. And by the end of the second inning, they tripled that total, in doing so they chased Phillies' starter Andrew Painter from the game.
With the loss, Painter drops to 1–8 on the season. In two innings of work, he allowed six earned runs while throwing 56 pitches.
Marlins starter Sandy Alcantara worked six innings, throwing 102 pitches, 76 of them for strikes. After giving up four runs in the first two innings, Alcantara settled in and kept the Phillies' offense off the board after that.
On the day, the Marlins Ace allowed four runs (two earned) on eight hits while striking out six and walking one.
Clayton McCullough handed the ball to the bullpen in the seventh, and they took over from there, slamming the door shut on the Phillies. They surrendered just two hits while recording six strikeouts and issuing no walks over the final three innings.
Stowers was the player of the game; to go along with his two home runs, he added a double in the second, scoring Esteury Ruiz and a single in the eighth to score Mack. In total, the Marlins first baseman had quite the day, putting up 4 hits, 5 RBI, and scoring 2 runs.
Stowers led the offense Wed., but it was the team's strong performance at the plate that secured the blowout win. Mack drove in two runs, while Marsee, Liam Hicks, Otto Lopez, Caissie, and Xavier Edwards all recorded RBI.
The win has the Marlins sitting just one game under the .500 mark on the season.
The Marlins now head home for six games, the first three coming against the San Francisco Giants (30-43). And with a 23–16 record at LoanDepot Park, they'll look to regain the momentum they built in June while continuing to contend for the final National League Wild Card spot.
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