Marlins Pile Up Six Runs in Fourth, Cruise Past Seattle 8-4
Miami turned a one-run second inning into an 8-4 rout, doing most of their damage before Bryce Miller could escape the fourth. The Marlins sent Seattle home with a loss that looks, on paper, far more comfortable than the early innings suggested.
The game started as a mess of errors and quickly became Miami's party. In the second inning, Naylor scored on a throwing error by Janson Junk — giving Seattle a 1-0 lead — but the Marlins answered immediately. Griffin Conine launched a 373-foot homer to right to tie it, then Hicks doubled to right to score Marsee and put Miami ahead 2-1. That double was the turning point: Miami's win probability swung from 58% to 70% on that single swing of the bat, and the Marlins never looked back.
The fourth inning is where this game was decided. Bryce Miller — who allowed 9 hits, 4 earned runs, and 4 walks across his 5.0 innings — couldn't escape the frame clean. Marsee scored on a throwing error by shortstop Emerson to make it 3-1, then Otto Lopez crushed a triple to left that scored both Jiménez and Hicks, pushing the lead to 5-1. A single to right by Stowers plated Lopez, and suddenly it was 6-1 Seattle staring at a five-run hole. That fourth inning looks like the moment the Mariners' night was effectively over. Randy Arozarena hit a 414-foot shot to center in the fifth to make it 6-2, but Miami answered in the seventh — Marsee singled to right to score Conine, and Jiménez grounded out to plate Ruiz — extending the lead to 8-2 before Dominic Canzone's 421-foot two-run blast in the eighth made the final 8-4.
On the Miami side, Janson Junk was imperfect — 4 walks and that early error — but he limited Seattle to 3 hits and 1 earned run across 5.0 innings with 5 strikeouts. The bullpen finished the job cleanly: Lake Bachar threw 2.0 scoreless innings with 3 strikeouts, and Tyler Zuber added a scoreless ninth. Conine went 3-for-4 with a homer, an RBI, and 2 runs scored. Marsee was 2-for-3 with an RBI and 2 runs. Jiménez went 2-for-4 with an RBI. For Seattle, Canzone's two-run shot in the eighth was the only real highlight of a night that felt lost by the fourth. With the All-Star break approaching, this looks like a game both teams will process very differently heading into Philadelphia next week.