Marlins Detonate Four Home Runs in 14-3 Colorado Rout
Miami sent four different players deep and piled up 14 runs to dismantle Colorado 14-3 on July 1. The story of the night was Javier Sanoja's third-inning three-run blast — a 419-foot shot to left center that swung Colorado's win probability from 35% to 13%, effectively ending any suspense before the fourth inning arrived.
Miami struck first when Griffin Conine doubled to right to score Kyle Stowers in the opening frame, but Colorado answered immediately when Moniak homered to center at 424 feet to tie it at one. That parity lasted exactly one inning. In the second, a Jiménez single to center scored Sanoja to put Miami back in front, and then Sanoja flipped the script entirely in the third — launching a 419-foot homer to left center that scored Edwards and Caissie, ballooning the lead to 5-1 and collapsing Colorado's win probability from 35% to 13% in a single swing. The game was, for all practical purposes, over.
Miami wasn't done making it ugly. The sixth inning turned into a three-hit, three-run pile-on: Stowers singled to right to score Jiménez, Conine singled to right to score Hicks, and Edwards singled to left to score Stowers — all in sequence, all off Colorado's battered pitching staff. Tanner Gordon finished with 9 hits and 5 earned runs allowed over 5.0 innings, and the Marlins made him pay for every mistake. Joe Mack then went deep to right at 450 feet in the seventh to score Sanoja and push it to 10-1, and Owen Caissie put the exclamation point on the night with a 453-foot bomb to right center in the eighth that scored Conine and Edwards and made it 13-2. Stowers added a run-scoring double in the ninth to cap the scoring at 14.
On the mound, Eury Perez was sharp if not dominant — 5.1 innings, just 2 hits, 1 earned run, and 8 strikeouts, though 4 walks kept him from cruising. The offense made those walks irrelevant. Conine went 4-for-5 with 2 RBI, Edwards went 4-for-6 with 2 runs scored, and Stowers went 3-for-6 with 2 RBI and 2 runs. Sanoja finished 3-for-5 with a homer, 3 RBI, and 3 runs scored. This looks like a lineup that is genuinely difficult to navigate top to bottom — six different Marlins recorded multi-hit or multi-RBI performances, and Colorado's pitching had no answer for any of them.