Game One: Marlins 4, Rays 3 (12 innings)
WP: Sanches (1-0)
LP: Beeks (0-1)
Save: Miller (1)
Game Two: Rays 7, Marlins 3
WP: Poche (1-0)
LP: Volstad (0-1)
HR: Uggla (2), Choi (2)
Game Three: Rays 6, Marlins 1
WP: Yarbrough (1-1)
LP: Nolasco (1-2)
HR: Meadows (3), Adames (1), Zunino (1)
Game Four: Marlins 8, Rays 2
WP: Vandenburk (1-0)
LP: Snell (2-1)
HR: Maybin (2), Cantu (2), Uggla (3), Paulino (2)
Game Five: Marlins 3, Rays 2
WP: Pinto (1-0)
LP: Morton (1-2)
Save: Nunez (3)
HR: Ramirez (2), Meadows (4)
Game Six: Marlins 5, Rays 3
WP: Sanches (2-0)
LP: Chirinos (0-1)
Save: Lindstrom (2)
HR: Pham (1), Cantu (3), Ramirez (3), B Lowe (2)
Three of Florida's wins were credited to relief pitchers, and three different Marlins picked up saves in the series.
For all the bullpen reliance to follow, the Marlins opened the series with strong start by Josh Johnson, who held the Rays to two runs, one earned, on four hits in eight innings. The game, in St. Petersburg's Tropicana Park dome, went 12 innings. Jalen Beeks threw three scoreless innings for the Rays until cracking in the top of the 12th, when Cody Ross doubled, Jeremy Hermida walked and John Baker singled to start the inning; Hanley Ramirez later singled off reliever Ryne Stanek. Andrew Miller allowed a run in the bottom of the inning but got the save.
The Rays evened the series in Game Two with a bullpen game. Stanek opened and Colin Poche got credit for the win, but Yonni Chiniros did the bulk of the work, going 5.6 innings. Stanek, Poche and Chiniros combined to hold the Marlins scoreless until there was one out in the seventh inning. Tampa Bay scored six runs in the third off Chris Volstad. Ji-Man Choi drove in three runs for the Rays.
The series moved to suburban Miami for Game Three, where the Rays bopped three homers off Ricky Nolasco and Ryan Yarborugh threw six shutout innings. The Marlins had at least one baserunner in every inning against the lefty.
The Fish turned it around in Game Four. Jorge Cantu and Dan Uggla hit back-to-back homers in the first against Blake Snell, and Cameron Maybin capped a four-run sixth with a two-run homer. Rick Vandenhurk went five innings for the win, and relievers Miller, Kiko Calero and Matt Lindstrom combined to allow one hit in the final four frames.
Johnson left Game Five after five innings trailing 2-1. But Reynel Pinto, Burke Badenhop and Leo Nunez combined for four scoreless innings of relief, and Uggla singled in two runs in the sixth to put the Marlins ahead to stay, both in the game and in the series.
Florida wrapped it up in Tropicana Field in Game Six. Cantu's homer in the sixth put the Fish up 3-2. Sanches surrendered that lead in the seventh on a solo homer by Brandon Lowe, but Hanley Ramirez promptly homered off Chirinos to put the Marlins back in front, and Chris Coghlan doubled into Maybin in the ninth for a bit of insurance. Matt Lindstrom worked a perfect ninth, striking out two, to seal the win and the series.
Player availability: With two off days, the Marlins bullpen will be a full strength for the third round
Projected rotation: Johnson-Nolasco-Volstand-West-(Johnson)-(Nolasco)-(Volstad)
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