Performance in one-run games is the difference between the Marlins being considered a feisty, middle-of-the-road team and irrelevant bottom feeders. Tuesday’s loss to the Padres puts them at 11-23 this season in those coin-flip scenarios. It was also their fifth straight L overall, which represents the second-longest streak of its kind for them in 2021.
Unironically batting in the cleanup spot, Lewis Brinson accentuated his career-best hot streak with an opposite-field RBI single in the top of the first inning. Then, Jorge Alfaro made it 3-0 with a two-run double later in that frame.