MARLINS 22-HIT ATTACK KEYS ROUT OF MARINERS
Overcome 5-Run Deficit in Lopsided 'W'
MIAMI, Apr. 18 (AP) - The Miami Marlins banged out a major league season high 22
hits and overcame a 5-0 deficit in a 16-9 pounding of the Seattle Mariners at
Marlins Park. Giancarlo Stanton hit a pair of home runs and drove in four
while Marcel Ozuna added a long ball and four runs batted in. Derek
Dietrich went 4-for-4, reached base safely in all five of his plate appearances,
scored four times and drove in three runs for Miami.
Marlins fans could be forgiven if they suffered whiplash in this game. In
the top of the first, the Mariners scored five times and knocked Miami starter
Nathan Eovaldi out of the box, but by the end of the fourth inning the Marlins
held a four-run lead.
The game started with first baseman Garrett Jones kicking lead-off man Abraham
Almonte's grounder for an error. After Eovaldi struck out Brad Miller, he
uncorked a wild pitch, advancing Almonte to second base and the inning spiraled
out of control with frightening speed. Robinson Cano drew a walk, putting
runners on first and second and Corey Hart and Michael Saunders ripped
back-to-back doubles, giving Seattle a 3-0 lead. Kyle Seager followed with
a home run into the lower grandstand in right field, making it 5-0.
Eovaldi then walked Dustin Ackley and before finally recording the inning's
second out, fanning Mike Zunino. But Mariners starter Chris Young, the
ninth man to hit in the inning, rapped a comebacker to Eovaldi who promptly
fumbled it for an error. That was all Marlins manager Mike Redmond could
take. Eovaldi had thrown 40 pitches and had only recorded two outs; he was
replaced on the mound by Kevin Slowey who struck out Almonte to finally end the
top of the first inning.
Young got the shutdown inning in the bottom half of the first, retiring the
Marlins in order but, after Slowey tossed a scoreless top of the second, the
Marlins began their comeback. Jones led off the bottom of the second with
a double and Casey McGehee walked. One out later, Dietrich lined an RBI
single and, after Adeiny Hechavarria hit into a fielder's choice, Slowey
improbably roped a double to left-center, plating two runs and making the score
5-3. Miami was back in the game.
Stanton's one-out solo homer in the third--a bomb that landed near the art deco
sculpture in left-center--cut the deficit to 5-4.
Slowey, working for the third time in four days, began to run out of gas in the
fourth but pitched out of a first-and-third one out jam to complete a scoreless
stint of 3 1/3 innings. In the bottom half of the frame, he was rewarded
by a huge Marlins uprising. Jarrod Saltalamacchia led off by lining a base
hit down the left field line but he was thrown out trying to stretch the hit
into a double by Ackley. Undaunted, Dietrich doubled. Hechavarria
fanned for the second out but Greg Dobbs, pinch hitting for Slowey, laced a
single to left, scoring Dietrich. An error by Ackley allowed Dobbs to
advance to second. That was the end of Young's day; he was replaced by
Dominic Leone, but the change in the identity of the Mariners pitcher didn't
slow the Marlins down at all. Christian Yelich walked, putting runners on
first and second, and Stanton then crushed his second home run of the
game. The three-run shot gave Miami a 9-5 lead.
The Mariners, to their credit, didn't surrender without a fight. Facing
reliever Carlos Marmol in the top of the sixth, singles by James Jones and
Miller were sandwiched around a strikeout of Almonte, leaving runners on first
and third with one out. Cano made it all irrelevant, ripping a three-run
home run to bring the Mariners within a run at 9-8.
But any hopes of a reversal of fortune were doused in the bottom of the
inning. Facing right-hander Yoervis Medina, Jones drew a one-out walk and,
after McGhee struck out, Saltalamacchia singled to center. Almonte overran
the ball, allowing the runners to advance to second and third. Dietrich's
single scored both runners to make the score 11-8 and Hechavarria followed with
a two-bagger, plating Dietrich, giving the Marlins a 12-8 lead. Just like
that, the Mariners' comeback had been thwarted, and the three-run Miami sixth
effectively ended any doubt about the game's outcome. But not the scoring.
The Marlins scored four more runs in the bottom of the eighth, the first on
Donovan Solano's RBI single and the remainder on Ozuna's towering three-run shot
to left, capping the scoring. Arquimedes Caminero tossed a pair of perfect
innings to close out the contest for Miami, mercifully so given that the game
took three hours and 48 minutes to complete--the second longest nine-inning game
of the season to date.
4/18/2014, Sea14-Mia14, Marlins Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 2014 Mariners 5 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 9 14 2 10 0 2014 Marlins 0 3 1 5 0 3 0 4 x 16 22 2 9 1 Mariners AB R H BI AVG Marlins AB R H BI AVG Almonte,A cf 4 1 0 0 .145 Yelich lf 5 2 1 0 .354 Romero ph 2 0 1 1 .250 Ozuna cf 6 2 3 4 .344 Miller,B ss 5 1 3 0 .219 Stanton rf 6 2 3 4 .310 Cano 2b 4 2 3 3 .302 Jones,G 1b 5 1 3 0 .239 Hart 1b 4 1 1 1 .156 Baker,Je 1b 0 0 0 0 .258 Saunders,M rf 4 1 1 2 .235 McGehee 3b 4 1 1 0 .393 Medina p 0 0 0 0 .000 Caminero p 0 0 0 0 .000 Furbush p 0 0 0 0 .000 Saltalamacchia c 4 3 2 0 .220 Franklin ph 1 0 0 0 .111 Dietrich 2b 4 4 4 3 .514 Wilhelmsen p 0 0 0 0 .000 Hechavarria ss 5 0 1 1 .286 Seager 3b 4 1 2 2 .308 Eovaldi p 0 0 0 0 .000 Ackley lf 4 0 0 0 .170 Slowey p 1 0 1 2 1.000 Zunino c 5 1 2 0 .261 Dobbs ph 1 1 1 0 .100 Young,CR p 2 0 0 0 .000 Jennings,Da p 0 0 0 0 .000 Leone p 0 0 0 0 .000 Johnson,R ph 1 0 1 0 .158 Jones,J ph 3 1 1 0 .333 Marmol p 0 0 0 0 .000 42 9 14 9 Dunn,M p 1 0 0 0 .000 Solano 3b 1 0 1 1 .182 44 16 22 15 Mariners INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Young,CR L 0-2 3.2 7 6 6 1 5 69 44 9.58 Leone 1.1 5 3 3 1 1 51 27 7.11 Medina 1.0 3 3 2 1 2 36 20 3.68 Furbush 1.0 3 0 0 0 0 18 14 0.00 Wilhelmsen 1.0 4 4 4 1 1 31 16 8.00 8.0 22 16 15 4 9 205 121 Marlins INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Eovaldi 0.2 3 5 4 2 2 40 23 6.87 Slowey W 1-1 3.1 4 0 0 0 3 54 34 4.66 Jennings,Da H 3 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 15 7 6.75 Marmol H 6 0.2 3 3 3 1 2 31 18 4.15 Dunn,M H 3 1.1 3 1 1 0 0 19 14 7.04 Caminero S 1 2.0 1 0 0 0 3 26 20 0.00 9.0 14 9 8 4 11 185 116 Sea: Jones,J batted for Leone in the 6th Jones,J moved to rf in the 6th Romero batted for Almonte,A in the 7th Romero moved to rf in the 7th Jones,J moved to cf in the 7th Franklin batted for Furbush in the 8th Mia: Dobbs batted for Slowey in the 4th Johnson,R batted for Jennings,Da in the 5th Solano inserted at 3b in the 8th Baker,Je inserted at 1b in the 9th E-Almonte,A, Ackley, Jones,G, Eovaldi. 2B-Hart(2), Saunders,M(1), Seager(4), Zunino 2(5), Stanton(5), Jones,G(4), Dietrich(4), Hechavarria(2), Slowey(1). HR-Cano(1), Seager(3), Ozuna(2), Stanton 2(5). RBI-Cano 3(7), Hart(4), Saunders,M 2(3), Seager 2(12), Romero(1), Ozuna 4(8), Stanton 4(19), Dietrich 3(7), Hechavarria(7), Slowey 2(2), Solano(1). K-Almonte,A 3, Miller,B, Hart 2, Saunders,M, Seager, Ackley, Zunino, Franklin, Yelich 3, Ozuna, Stanton, McGehee 2, Hechavarria 2. BB-Cano, Hart, Seager, Ackley, Yelich, Jones,G, McGehee, Saltalamacchia. HBP-Dietrich. HB-Leone. WP-Eovaldi. GWRBI: Ozuna Temperature: 80, Sky: cloudy, Wind: left to right at 5 MPH. Attendance: 19,883 Game Time: 3:48