Solid starting pitching and late inning heroics spelled disappointment, then triumph for the Marlins.
Heroes and Zeroes is a series of articles where I use the Wins Probability Added (WPA) metric at www.fangraphs.com to analyze the biggest contributors to the results of each game. It takes into account pitching, hitting, and some baserunning. I add a modifier to account for fielding errors. The top three players are the Heroes, and the bottom three are the Zeroes.
Heroes
Alexi Amarista (SD) .441
Amarista came into the contest in an 0-for-24 slump. He batted eighth for the Padres, and continued the slump into the second inning by grounding out to first (-1.