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The Marlins rallied from a six-run deficit in the seventh to win in walk-off fashion 30 years ago today. In just their second year as a Major League Baseball franchise, the Florida Marlins held a winning record well into June during what would be a strike-shortened season. One of their most exhilarating wins from year No. 2 came on this day 30 years ago. Jesús Tavárez capped the comeback with a walk-off single in the ninth as the Marlins rallied from six runs down late to stun the Los Angeles Dodgers, 11-10. At the seventh-inning stretch at Joe Robbie Stadium on June 6, 1994, Florida found itself on the short end of a 9-3 score. Before the inning was over, the Marlins had drawn even. Dodgers knuckleballer Tom Candiotti looked to be in for a quick inning as he was able to retire Jerry Browne and Matías Carrillo to open the frame. Florida responded with seven straight hits. Jeff Conine's flared single to right was followed by an RBI double from Greg Colbrunn, which ended Candiotti's day. After an infield single from Benito Santiago on the second pitch from Darren Dreifort put runners on the corners, Mario Díaz doubled him home to cut the deficit to 9-6. Jim Gott got the call in the L.A. bullpen, but the right-hander failed to record an out as a Bret Barberie RBI double and a Dave Magadan RBI single cut the lead to 9-8. After Dreifort and Gott each failed to record an out, Al Osuna was able to get the Dodgers out of the inning, but not before giving up a game-tying triple to Chuck Carr. The 9-9 score would be short-lived as the Dodgers and Marlins each plated runs in the eighth. Cory Snyder grounded into a double play with the bases loaded to score a run in the top half of the inning before a fielder's choice off the bat of Santiago in the bottom half of the frame brought home Conine. Marlins reliever Willie Fraser was able to strand a pair of Dodgers in the ninth, giving the Marlins the chance to walk it off in the bottom of the inning. That's just what they did. Barberie struck out to start the home half of the inning, but back-to-back singles by Magadan and Carr set the stage for Tavárez. Pinch-hitting, Tavárez saw just one pitch that night but hammered it into the left-centerfield gap for the walk-off hit as Florida prevailed. Prior to the walk-off hit, the Marlins led briefly with two runs in the first. In the top of the second, Mike Piazza's 477-foot grand slam put the Dodgers in front. Raúl Mondesí, Garey Ingram and Tim Wallach would also each homer for the Dodgers. Although the Marlins failed to homer, they did finish with 20 hits as a team. Conine, Colbrunn and Díaz each finished with three. Carr, Brown, Santiago, and Barberie added two apiece in the win. Piazza and Wallach each had four-hit games for L.A. The victory capped what would be a season-long five-game winning streak for the Marlins. It came in dramatic fashion on this day three decades ago. View full article

The fifth inning was a hit parade at Miller Park five years ago. During the 2019 season, the Miami Marlins scored the second-fewest runs in all of baseball and the fewest in the National League. On this day five years ago, however, the club erupted for their biggest offensive inning ever. The Marlins already held a 4-0 lead as they came to bat against the Milwaukee Brewers in the top of the fifth inning at Miller Park on June 4, 2019. By the time the half-inning was over, Miami had touched home 11 times in an eventual 16-0 shutout. Home runs by Starlin Castro, Garrett Cooper, and Brian Anderson had propelled Miami to the early lead. During the 11-run fifth, however, the Marlins didn't leave the yard. Facing Brewers starter Taylor Williams, Garrett Cooper opened the inning with a single. Following a walk to Anderson, Castro struck out. The next 10 men for Miami would reach. An RBI double by Harold Ramírez was followed by an intentional walk to JT Riddle. Jorge Alfaro's two-run single started a streak of five straight RBI hits for Miami. Starting pitcher Pablo López doubled while Miguel Rojas, Curtis Granderson and Cooper singled during the stretch. After an error by Milwaukee third baseman Travis Shaw plated the eighth run of the inning, Castro atoned for his strikeout with an RBI double. Ramírez followed with an RBI groundout before Riddle singled home a run to cap the 11-run, nine-hit inning. For good measure, Austin Dean doubled home a run in the eighth to cap the scoring. As a team, the Marlins finished with 19 hits. Cooper went 4-for-5 with four runs scored. Rojas added three hits. Dean, Castro, Ramirez and Alfaro each had two. wqslys.mp4 While the offense stole the show, López shined on the mound, yielding just three hits in six shutout innings while fanning seven. Shaw and former Marlins star Christian Yelich each had two of the six hits for the Brewers. The 16 runs would serve as a season-high for the Marlins and the most in a game since putting up a franchise record 22 runs in a July 2017 victory over the Texas Rangers. The bulk of the damage came during the team-record 11-run fifth on this day five years ago. View full article

Cliff Floyd may have been the first player in baseball history to have a home run overturned by replay. Major League Baseball officially added instant replay reviews in 2008. There have been some tweaks since then. So you may be surprised to learn that, exactly 25 years ago, the Florida Marlins were the first victims of a call being overturned via MLB instant replay. The Marlins were struggling at 16-34 as they got set to host the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game of a four-game set on May 31, 1999. St. Louis, at 24-24, was looking to get back over .500 and would do so with the help of an unlikely source: a television camera. The Cardinals led 4-1 in the bottom of the fifth when Florida outfielder Cliff Floyd hammered a ball to left field off Kent Bottenfield. It looked as though Floyd had just driven in both himself and teammate Álex González to make it a one-run game. Floyd’s shot was originally ruled a double by second-base umpire Greg Gibson. However, crew chief Frank Pulli saw it differently and gave the home run sign...at least initially. Pulli consulted a television camera near the Florida dugout and spent several minutes looking at replays. He then overturned his own call, making Floyd’s hit a RBI double (just as Gibson had originally called it). Floyd would end the inning being stranded at third base as the Cardinals eventually prevailed, 5-2. The only actual home runs in the game came from St. Louis shortstop and former Marlins World Series hero Edgar Rentería, who left the yard twice. 5-31-99 cliff floyd replay review hr.mp4 Mark McGwire and Ray Lankford each recorded RBI doubles for the Cardinals. Mike Lowell had the only other RBI hit for the Marlins with a single in the fourth. The Marlins would play the final four innings under protest. It was later denied, although National League President Len Coleman conceded that replay should not have been used in that case. Since instant replay was implemented and expanded in Major League Baseball, there have certainly been gripes here and there. But long before Marlins fans had Zack Cozart’s inexplicable tying “run” to complain about it, there was Cliff Floyd’s home run that wasn’t. It came on this day a quarter-century ago. View full article

On this date 20 years ago, the All-Star third baseman came up clutch for the first-place Marlins. Wins have been tough to come by for the Miami Marlins this season, but the franchise has had its fair share of exciting victories. Consider what the then-Florida Marlins achieved on this day 20 years ago. The Marlins were 28-20 and in first place in the National League East as they prepared for the middle game of a three-game set against the New York Mets at Pro Player Stadium on May 29, 2004. Florida took the lead in the first as Lenny Harris grounded into a double play to plate a run. The Mets drew even on a Ty Wigginton solo homer in the second inning and took the lead in the fourth on a Karim Garcia RBI single. Álex González’s RBI single in the bottom of that inning scored Jeff Conine and evened the contest. Florida had won in walk-off fashion more than a week before against the Arizona Diamondbacks on a bases-loaded walk to Mike Redmond, but the only walk-off home run of the season for 2004 would come against the Mets off the bat of Mike Lowell. An All-Star, Gold Glove winner and one of the best to ever don a Marlins uniform, Lowell was no stranger to the dramatic home run. Lowell had a few of those during the Marlins’ World Series run the year prior and one in the 12th inning the month prior to beat the Philadelphia Phillies when he became the first Marlin ever to hit three homers in a game. With the score tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 10th, no one on and one out, Lowell found himself facing former teammate Braden Looper. He turned around the second pitch he saw and pulled it over the left-field wall for a walk-off solo home run. 5-29-04 marliniversary.mp4 Lowell finished the night 2-for-2 and reached base four times for the Marlins in the victory. Conine and González also had two hits apiece. As for Florida as a team, it didn’t have another walk-off home run until May 10, 2007 when Josh Willingham hit a three-run walk-off blast to break a scoreless tie to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers. Lowell’s game-winner would serve as the final walk-off hit in his time with the Marlins and it came on this day two decades ago. View full article

Tommy Phelps had his finest day 20 years ago. In more than three decades as a franchise, the Florida/Miami Marlins have had their fair share of no-hitters. On this day 20 years, three Florida Marlins combined to throw a one-hit shutout with perhaps the unlikeliest of starters. On May 26, 2004, lefty Tommy Phelps had the finest day of his Major League Baseball career. Phelps allowed just a hit in seven shutout innings as the Florida Marlins downed the Cincinnati Reds, 3-0. In three years in the bigs, Phelps made just 11 starts and picked up just four wins. Against the Reds at Great American Ball Park, Phelps yielded just a two-out double to Sean Casey in the fourth. He did issue a pair of walks, but one of those was negated by a double play. Phelps had never made it past the sixth inning in any of his previous starts nor would he again. Matt Perisho and Armando Benitez each worked around walks over the final two innings to secure the one-hit shutout. The Marlins went ahead for good in the top of the second inning as Jeff Conine doubled home Miguel Cabrera. Hee-Seop Choi added to the lead with a solo home run off Cincinnati starter Todd Van Poppel. Mike Redmond capped the scoring with an RBI single off Todd Jones in the top of the ninth. While the Reds managed just one hit, Florida banged out eight. Redmond and Cabrera each recorded two hits. Cabrera scored two of three runs for the Marlins. For Phelps, the victory would serve as his only win of the 2004 season and the last of his big-league career. It came on this day two decades ago. View full article

Five years ago, Garrett Cooper busted out the big bat late with a game-winning grand slam. The 2019 Miami Marlins lost 105 games, but for a 41-game stretch from mid-May through June, they won more than they lost. One of the most memorable wins from that stretch came on this day five years ago. Garrett Cooper played the role of hero for Miami on May 23, 2019. His ninth-inning grand slam capped a five-run frame as the Marlins completed the three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers, 5-2. For eight innings at Comerica Park, Miami had managed just five hits. Trailing 2-0, an error by Detroit third baseman Dawel Lugo on grounder off the bat of Harold Ramirez breathed life into the struggling Marlins. Tigers closer Shane Greene was able to Martín Prado to ground out, but Neil Walker followed with an RBI single to break up the shutout. Following a four-pitch walk to Miami catcher Jorge Alfaro, Greene was able to get the groundball he needed. A hustling Miguel Rojas, however, was able to beat out a close play at first and the inning continued. Rojas proceeded to steal second base, which prompted Greene to intentionally walk Curtis Granderson to load the bases. That set the stage for Cooper. 0-for-4 on the day, Cooper had jumpstarted the offense the night before with his first career home run—a solo shot—as the Marlins erased a 3-0 deficit to leave with a 6-3 victory. Down 0-1 in the count, Cooper pounced on a breaking ball and was able to keep it fair down the left-field line for the go-ahead grand slam. Sergio Romo was able to retire the Tigers in order in the ninth to pick up the save and complete the sweep. Tyler Kinley picked up the win for the Marlins. Scoreless through five and a half innings, a sacrifice fly by Ronny Rodríguez off Miami starter Trevor Richards in the sixth gave Detroit a 1-0 lead. Miguel Cabrera, a former World Series hero for the Marlins, doubled the Tigers' lead with an RBI single in the eighth. Cooper's slam not only gave the Marlins the sweep of the Tigers, but it ran their winning streak to six games. That would serve as their longest winning streak of the season. It came on this day five years ago. View full article

On this day 25 years ago, Derrek Lee ended a marathon contest against Pittsburgh. For the Florida Marlins, the 1999 season wasn't one to remember fondly. After a horrendous start, however, the team showed improvement as the year went on. On this day 25 years ago, the club found a way to win in one of the longest games it played all season. After seven straight scoreless innings, Derrek Lee sent the crowd home happy with a walk-off single in the 14th inning as Florida outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3. Neither team had scored since the sixth inning at Pro Player Stadium on May 20, 1999, as the contest headed to the bottom of the 14th. Antonio Alfonseca had worked three hitless, scoreless innings to give the Marlins a chance to walk it off. Facing Pittsburgh closer Mike Williams, Cliff Floyd got the inning started with a fantastic at-bat, drawing an eight-pitch walk. After Kevin Orie grounded out to move Floyd to second, Williams intentionally walked Mark Kotsay to get to Lee and set up the double play. That turned out to be a mistake. With the count even 1-1, Lee hammered one into the right-centerfield gap. His shot one-hopped the wall and Floyd scored easily to give the Marlins the win in the series opener. Tied 2-2 through four innings, the Pirates took the lead in the fifth on a solo home run by Brian Giles. In the bottom of the sixth, Florida drew even as Pittsburgh's Kris Benson balked home Kotsay. h70iki_1.mp4 Bruce Aven finished with three hits for the Marlins while Floyd and Preston Wilson each added two. Jason Kendall had four hits for the Pirates while Giles finished 2-for-5 with the aforementioned homer and two RBIs. The story, however, was the Florida bullpen. Brent Billingsley, Brian Edmondson, Braden Looper and Alfonseca combined to allow just three hits in eight scoreless innings of relief. Alfonseca earned the win. A six-year member of the Marlins, Lee would go on to have plenty of big moments for the team. His first walk-off hit for the club came on this day a quarter-century ago. View full article

Giancarlo Stanton's bomb in extras was the difference on this day 10 years ago. For the early parts of May, dramatic victories was a theme for the 2014 Miami Marlins. The club opened the month by winning seven of their first eight games, which included three walk-off wins. On this day 10 years ago, the Marlins got the job done in extras. Giancarlo Stanton's blast in the 11th inning was the difference as Miami outlasted the San Diego Padres, 3-1. The Marlins had just four hits through 10 innings as they came to bat in the top of the 11th at Petco Park on May 8, 2014. San Diego's Dale Thayer appeared to be on the verge of working a 1-2-3 inning, but an error second baseman Jedd Gyorko on a groundball from Derek Dietrich kept the inning alive. It would prove costly. Despite being behind in the count 0-2, Stanton was able to rocket Thayer's delivery the other way and over the right-field wall for the two-run go-ahead homer. Steve Cishek worked a 1-2-3 bottom half of the inning to secure the save. 5-8-14 giancarlo stanton hr padres.mp4 The Padres' lone run came in the second inning on Ian Kennedy's solo home run off Miami starter Jacob Turner. Miami drew even in the sixth on an RBI single from Dietrich that scored Christian Yelich. In a contest that featured little offense, San Diego outhit the Marlins 7-5. Everth Cabrera had two hits for the Padres. AJ Ramos worked two scoreless innings out of the bullpen to pick up the win for Miami. Still the club's all-time leader in home runs, Stanton had plenty of timely blasts during his tenure with Miami. His 11th-inning bomb in San Diego was the difference on this day a decade ago. View full article

Before there was Monte Harrison, there was Josh Booty. Former Miami Marlins outfielder Monte Harrison has appeared in just 50 career games at the Major League Baseball level, but the Missouri native was the subject of headlines on Tuesday for a different sport: college football. Harrison will take his talents to Fayetteville, Ark. and walk on as a wide receiver for the University of Arkansas. A top-400 national prospect out of high school, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, Harrison was committed to play for Nebraska. He was selected in the second round of the 2014 MLB Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers and received a $1.8M signing bonus in order to pursue a professional baseball career instead. Harrison was acquired by the Marlins in a 2018 trade that sent eventual National League MVP Christian Yelich to Milwaukee. A stellar athlete, Harrison made his big-league debut for the Miami Marlins in 2020. Used primarily as a pinch-runner, Harrison hit just .175 with one home run, three RBIs, and six stolen bases over 41 total games with Miami during the 2020 and 2021 seasons. 86e16197-1d4f2bee-1e136861-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4 Following his 2022 release, Harrison signed with the Los Angeles Angels. He had just two hits in 11 at-bats with the Angels in 2022—his final action in the majors. What becomes of Harrison's football career remains to be seen, but when it comes to former Marlins spurning baseball for college football, the speedy outfielder is not alone. Drafted fifth overall out of Shreveport, La. by the Florida Marlins in the 1994 MLB Draft, third baseman Josh Booty appeared in games in the big leagues in three different seasons for the club (1996, 1997 and 1998). Despite being limited to just 13 career games and 30 plate appearances, Booty held his own at the plate. The Louisiana native batted a respectable .269, which included going 3-for-5 during the Marlins' first championship season of 1997. While Booty may have been a long-term asset for the Marlins, one might conclude that he made a bigger name for himself on the gridiron in the SEC. Booty enrolled at LSU prior to the 1999 season. As a 24-year-old freshman, Booty saw plenty of the field. He attempted 333 passes as a freshman, but completed fewer than half of his throws and finished with nearly three times as many interceptions as touchdown passes. As a team, the Tigers finished just 3-8, which led to the departure of head coach Gerry DiNardo. Interesting enough, Booty would have the distinction of being legendary head coach Nick Saban's first starting quarterback in the SEC. During the 2000 season, Booty started nine games, leading the Tigers to a 6-3 record in those starts. As a team, LSU finished 8-4 and ranked in the final AP Poll for the first time in three years, following a 28-14 win over Georgia Tech in the Peach Bowl. Booty wouldn't stick around for LSU's run to the SEC title in 2001, but with 17 touchdown passes and 15 interceptions, did enough to be selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the sixth round of the 2001 NFL Draft. Booty would never take a snap in an NFL regular season game. Despite going 15 years without taking the field, Booty wasn't released by the Marlins until 2013. At 37 years old, he would get a shot with the Arizona Diamondbacks shortly after. He was released during the spring about a month into his tenure with Arizona. Booty isn't likely to have his jersey retired in Baton Rouge, but it is worth noting that when he arrived, LSU was coming off consecutive losing seasons. As starting quarterback, he helped begin a streak of 20 consecutive winning campaigns for the Tigers. Arkansas finished just 4-8 on the gridiron in 2023. Perhaps Harrison can play a small role in changing the Razorbacks' fortunes. View full article

Bruce Aven made Marlins history 25 years ago today. The 1999 season wasn’t one that the Florida Marlins will remember with any particular fondness, but like any other baseball season, it had its fair share of memories. One of the most thrilling from that particular season took place on this day 25 years ago. The Marlins were a league-worst 6-22 as they made their way to Dodger Stadium to begin a three-game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 7, 1999. Florida had lost eight straight heading into the contest and had failed to win a series all season. That trend looked to inevitably continue as Florida trailed 3-1 after six innings. To that point, the Marlins had mustered just a run on four hits against Los Angeles starter Darren Dreifort before stringing hits together in the top of the seventh. After an RBI double from Todd Dunwoody cut the Dodgers’ lead in half, Dreifort intentionally walked catcher Jorge Fabregas to load the bases. From there, Los Angeles went to the bullpen and Florida went to the bench. Bruce Aven was called to pinch-hit for starting pitcher Dennis Springer and stepped to the plate to face Alan Mills with one out. On a 2-2 pitch, Aven was able to hammer a fastball over the left field wall for a pinch-hit grand slam to give the Marlins a 6-3 lead. The blast for Aven was just the second home run of his career and the first pinch-hit grand slam in club history. 5-7-24 marliniversary.mp4 Aven’s memorable blast would cap the scoring as the Marlins went on to win the series by taking the rubber game two days later. Springer earned the win for Florida while Dreifort was tagged with the loss. The only other ball to leave the yard that night was hit by Los Angeles third baseman Adrián Beltré, a solo shot in the third to get the scoring started. There have been other notable pinch-hit grand slams in the Marlins’ 32-year history from the likes of Ryan McGuire and Jeremy Hermida. The first-ever, however, came from Bruce Aven and on this day a quarter-century ago. View full article

Down 3-0 in the eighth, Casey McGehee lifted the Miami Marlins to a thrilling 4-3 win over the New York Mets on this day 10 years ago. After a dismal 2012 season and spending 2013 in Japan, third baseman Casey McGehee experienced a bounce-back campaign as a member of the Miami Marlins in 2014. On this day 10 years ago, McGehee capped the comeback with a walk-off single in a 4-3 win over the New York Mets. Through seven innings at Marlins Park on May 5, 2014, the Marlins could get absolutely nothing going offensively. With Mets starting pitcher Jon Niese done after seven shutout innings, allowing just five hits, Miami finally got the bats going against the New York bullpen. Trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the eighth, the Marlins drew even with three runs in the frame. After opening the inning with back-to-back walks on great at-bats against reliever Daisuke Matsuzaka, the Marlins used a Giancarlo Stanton RBI single to break up the shutout. Following a fielding error that scored Ed Lucas, Jarrod Saltalamacchia doubled home the tying run to even things at three apiece. With runners at second and third and nobody out, Kyle Farnsworth was able to come in and put out the fire for the Mets. Steve Cishek erased a walk to Lucas Duda by getting Travis d'Arnaud to ground into a double play in the top of the ninth to give the Marlins the chance to walk it off. Christian Yelich started the home half of the inning with a single off Scott Rice. New York turned to González Germen. A sacrifice bunt and an intentional walk set the stage for McGehee. With two on and nobody out, McGehee was down in the count 0-2 when he lined one back at Germen. The shot ricocheted off the Mets right-hander and into right field for the walk-off single as Yelich scored easily from second. czwhkd_1.mp4 McGehee and Yelich each finished with a pair of hits for Miami in the win. David Wright and Curtis Granderson each did likewise for the Mets. Granderson and Daniel Murphy homered in the first inning to give the Mets an early 2-0 lead. The walk-off win for the Marlins was the second in as many days and part of a five-game winning streak in which Miami tallied three walk-off wins. The first of two against the Mets came on this day a decade ago. View full article

An error by Cincinnati's Paul Janish gave the Marlins a 14-inning walk-off win 15 years ago. The early parts of the 2009 season had plenty of thrilling moments for the Florida Marlins. Four of the Marlins' first 15 wins came in extra innings. On this day 15 years ago, the Marlins got their first extra-innings walk-off win of the season. A throwing error by Cincinnati Reds shortstop Paul Janish in the 14th inning lifted the Marlins to a thrilling 3-2 win. The Marlins hadn't scored since the sixth inning as the May 4, 2009 contest at Land Shark Stadium went to the 14th. In his third inning of relief, Burke Badenhop worked around a two-out single from Janish to give his team a chance to walk it off. Facing Danny Herrera, Marlins catcher Ronny Paulino started the 14th by drawing a walk. After getting the scoring started with a solo home run in the first inning, Hanley Ramírez singled on the very next pitch for his third hit of the night to put the winning run in scoring position. Jorge Cantú was able to get ahead in the count 2-0 before hitting a hard ground ball at Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto. Votto threw to second to start what looked to be a sure double play, but Janish's return throw skipped away from the covering Herrera and allowed Paulino to score the winning run. Following Ramírez's blast in the first, Florida didn't add to its lead until an RBI single from Jeremy Hermida in the sixth made it 2-0. The Reds answered with two runs in the top of the seventh off Marlins starter Josh Johnson. Like Ramírez, Emilio Bonifácio finished with three hits for Florida. Cody Ross went 2-for-6 in the win. Janish, Votto, and Chris Dickerson each notched a pair of hits for the Reds. The 14 innings would be the most the Marlins would play all season. Florida scored the winning run on a throwing error on this day 15 years ago. View full article

The Marlins scored six runs in the 10th to complete their comeback on this day 15 years ago. Late-inning comebacks turned out to be a theme for the Florida Marlins early during the 2009 season. On this day 15 years ago, Florida turned a nail-biting extra-inning contest into a six-run rout. After trailing most of the way at Wrigley Field on April 30, 2009, the Marlins drew even with runs in the seventh and eighth. Florida went ahead for good with six runs in the 10th in an 8-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. For six innings, Florida had no answer for and just three hits off Chicago starter Sean Marshall. Trailing 2-0, Jorge Cantú broke up the shutout by leading off the seventh with a solo home run. Against the usually reliable Carlos Mármol, two walks and a throwing error allowed the Marlins to draw even at two. After seven strong innings from Chris Volstad, Dan Meyer and Kiko Calero combined to throw two scoreless innings of relief to get the contest to the 10th. Facing Aaron Heilman, Alfredo Amézaga got the 10th inning started for Florida with a lead-off double. Following a walk to pinch-hitter Wes Helms, an error on a ground ball from Emilio Bonifácio allowed the Marlins to take their first lead, 3-2. The Fish, however, were just getting started. Cameron Maybin's bunt single scored Helms before a walk to Jeremy Hermida loaded the bases. Cantú unloaded them with a three-run double to give the Marlins a commanding 7-2 lead. Heilman's night was done, but Florida's big 10th inning wasn't. Ángel Guzmán entered the game and promptly gave up an RBI double to Dan Uggla. Guzmán retired the next three batters to keep the deficit at 8-2, but the damage was done. The Marlins finished with 10 hits while Uggla, Maybin, Cantú, Amézaga and catcher Ronny Paulino each recording two. The Cubs' only runs came in the fifth inning on back-to-back home runs from Milton Bradley and Mike Fontenot. For Florida, the victory capped a 14-8 month of April. The Marlins finished with three extra-inning wins during the month. The last came in historic Wrigley Field on this day 15 years ago. View full article