This playing-out-the-string Marlins roster is engineered to lose. Exhibit A was Sunday’s 7-6, extra-inning walk-off loss to the Rockies. That completed a series sweep and dropped Miami to a season-worst 33 games below the .500 mark.
Yamamoto was good! The rookie right-hander had his best outing since the All-Star break, relying more than usual on his cutter en route to a career-high nine strikeouts.
Making his first-ever start in Denver’s unique atmospheric conditions, Yams was unsurprisingly hurt by the long ball. Negating a Starlin Castro RBI double in the top of the first, Nolan Arenado blasted his 29th home run of the season to even things up at 1-1.