Alcantara Passes Nolasco, Becomes the Marlins' All-Time Innings Leader

Sandy Alcantara worked into the third inning Sunday against the Angels, and somewhere in there — on his 1,226th inning in a Marlins uniform — he passed Ricky Nolasco as the franchise's all-time leader in innings pitched. Miami won 7-0. Worth noting on both counts.

Nolasco spent the better part of a decade as the face of a rotation that never quite had enough around it, which makes the symmetry here a little uncomfortable. Alcantara is 14-6 with a 3.54 ERA across 175-plus innings this season, doing the work of a genuine staff anchor — and the roster around him has spent the summer dissolving. Max Meyer is on the IL. Lake Bachar was traded to Pittsburgh. Braxton Garrett went to Chicago. Liam Hicks went to Tampa Bay. Jacob Berry went to Kansas City. The Marlins sold at the deadline while Alcantara kept pitching.

That's the context for this milestone: the man accumulating more innings in a Marlins uniform than anyone in franchise history is doing it on a team that is 3.5 games out of a wild card with 46 games left and an injury list that runs eight deep. He's not a piece being moved. He's the foundation everyone else is being moved around.

A 7-0 win over the Angels is a fine day to set a record. What happens over the next six weeks will say more about what the record is worth.