Miami led 4-0 after two innings. Max Meyer gave them five solid innings. Then Pete Fairbanks entered in the eighth with a two-run lead, a single, and a hit batter — and Dominic Smith turned on a cutter for a 363-foot bases-clearing double. The Marlins fall to 9-9. A two-game series split in Atlanta.
Agustín Ramírez’s three-run home run broke a tie in the fifth, Liam Hicks drove in three, and the Marlins beat the Braves 10-4 at Truist Park to open the two-game series. Eight of Miami’s ten runs were driven in by international players. The NL East’s top two teams are also its two most internationally diverse rosters — and Miami struck first.