St. Petersburg, FL—The Marlins were overmatched. There really isn’t much else to say. There is a reason the Rays are a perennial playoff team and the Marlins aren’t. Tuesday’s game, though, was a little different.
Pablo López’s night got off to a shaky start when his first pitch of the game resulted in an inside-the-park home run for Kevin Kiermaier. Yeah, an inside-the-parker on the first pitch. It was that kind of night.
Marlins legend “Hitting” Harold Ramirez muscled a pitch that wasn't anywhere near the strike zone over the wall in the right field corner to make it 2-0 in the second.