Caissie's Three-Run Blast Breaks It Open as Miami Holds Off Texas

Owen Caissie's three-run homer to right in the fifth inning swung Miami's win probability from 77% to 94% and effectively ended the competitive portion of this game. The Marlins beat the Rangers 6-4, with four different Miami hitters going deep on a night the city had plenty of other things to talk about.

Texas drew first blood in the second inning when Osuna scored on a Lopez groundout to make it 1-0. Miami answered immediately — Heriberto Hernandez crushed a solo shot 416 feet to center to tie it, and the tone was set: this was going to be a home run derby. Mack added a 395-foot blast to right center in the fourth to put Miami ahead 2-1, and the Marlins were building something.

The fifth inning is where Texas's night fell apart. Jose Corniell — who would finish with 3.1 innings pitched, 7 hits, and 5 earned runs — couldn't escape the frame. Caissie's three-run homer to right, 367 feet, scored Lopez and Edwards and blew the game open at 5-1. Mack followed with a single to left, scoring Hernandez, and suddenly it was 6-1. That Caissie shot is the story of the night: the win probability swung from 77% to 94% in a single swing, and whatever drama remained was largely cosmetic.

Texas made it interesting on paper, at least. Brandon Nimmo hit a 412-foot shot to right center in the eighth to make it 6-2, then Joc Pederson went deep to right center in the ninth — 384 feet — to cut it to 6-3. Nimmo added a triple to center that scored Langford and got it to 6-4, giving the Rangers' final line some respectability. But Sandy Alcantara had already done the damage-limiting work that mattered: 6.2 innings, 5 hits, 1 earned run, 4 strikeouts. That's a quality start by any measure, and it looks like exactly the kind of outing Miami needed after their bullpen was asked to clean up a mess not of Alcantara's making. Pederson went 3-for-5 with a homer and an RBI in a losing effort — the kind of individual performance that feels hollow when your team gives up six before the seventh inning stretch.