Marlins Erase Three-Run Deficit in Ninth, Stun Dodgers 6-4

Miami scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to turn a 4-2 deficit into a 6-4 victory over Los Angeles on September 13. Agustin Ramirez's two-run homer to left center — 407 feet — was the kill shot, capping one of the more stunning late-game collapses a Dodgers bullpen will endure this season.

For eight innings, this looked like Josue De Paula's coming-out party. The Dodgers outfielder went 2-for-2 with a 416-foot three-run homer to right in the fourth inning, plating Smith and Tucker to give Los Angeles a 3-0 lead. De Paula finished 2-2 with 3 RBI and a run scored — a performance that deserved a win around it. Emmet Sheehan backed him up with six innings of near-dominant work: 2 hits, 0 earned runs, 5 strikeouts. The Dodgers looked in complete control.

Miami chipped away in the eighth when Otto Lopez singled to center, scoring Mack and Ruiz to make it 3-2. Los Angeles answered immediately in the top of the ninth — Mookie Betts laced a ground rule double to score Freeland, pushing the lead back to 4-2. That felt like the dagger. It wasn't. Javier Sanoja doubled to left, scoring Marsee and Edwards to tie it at 4-4, and that single swing flipped Miami's win probability from 28% to 78% — a 50-point lurch that tells you everything about how fast the ninth inning unraveled for Los Angeles. Then Ramirez stepped in and went deep, a 407-foot shot to left center that scored Sanoja and made it 6-4, final.

The story of the night was the Dodgers' inability to protect a late lead against a Miami lineup that, on paper, had no business mounting that kind of rally. Eury Perez gave up 3 earned runs over 5 innings for Miami — not a dominant outing — but the Marlins' offense found a way when it mattered most. Sanoja's double looks like the turning point of the entire game; Ramirez's homer was just the exclamation point. For Los Angeles, De Paula's breakout performance and Sheehan's efficiency will feel hollow. You don't get credit for pitching six scoreless innings when your team surrenders four runs in the ninth.