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The St. Louis Cardinals bring a 13-8 record and a quietly international roster into loanDepot park for a three-game series starting Monday. Miami is 10-12 after snapping a four-game skid with Sunday’s win over Milwaukee. The standings give the Marlins room. The schedule doesn’t give them time. Here’s who to watch, what’s at stake, and why Panama City is central to this story.
Eury Pérez threw six innings of one-run ball with seven strikeouts — zero earned runs, one walk — answering the command questions directly. Kyle Stowers doubled in his first at-bat. Javier Sanoja’s pinch two-run single broke it open. Michael Petersen got five outs. The Marlins snap a four-game losing streak.
Brandon Woodruff allowed one run over seven innings to improve to 5-0 lifetime against Miami. Sandy Alcántara issued a season-high six walks in five innings as the Marlins dropped their fourth straight, falling to 9-12. The roof was open. The offense drew one walk. Kyle Stowers activates Sunday.
Otto Lopez’s two-out, two-run homer in the sixth tied the game at 3. Miami held it through nine. In the tenth, Xavier Edwards threw the ball into left field and the Brewers scored three. Calvin Faucher took the loss. The Marlins drop to 9-11, their third straight defeat.
Bryce Elder lowered his ERA to 0.77 with seven strikeouts over 5.2 innings. Ozzie Albies, Austin Riley, and Matt Olson all homered. Liam Hicks broke up the shutout with a two-run shot in the eighth, but it was too late. Miami falls to 9-10 in Atlanta and heads into the off-day carrying two straight losses.
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.
Sandy Alcantara carried a shutout into the ninth and flirted with another Maddux, but a bullpen collapse and extra-inning unraveling handed the Marlins a 6–3 loss to the Reds.
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