Jakob Marsee hit a walk-off RBI single off the wall in right field in the 10th inning as the host Miami Marlins defeated Seattle 6-5 on Tuesday night.
Marsee went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, with the game-winner coming off Michael Rucker (0-2).
Miami’s Heriberto Hernandez hit a solo homer in the eighth to tie the score at 5-5 and set the stage for Marsee in the 10th.
Seattle’s streak of consecutive scoreless innings was broken at 25 as Miami got two in the second. In addition, Seattle’s streak of six straight quality starts was also snapped.
Miami starter Max Meyer, a first-time All-Star, allowed four hits, two walks and two runs in five innings with four strikeouts.
Seattle’s Bryan Woo allowed nine hits, one walk and four runs — three earned — in five innings of work.
Woo is 6-0 with a 2.10 ERA at home and 1-6 with a 6.28 ERA on the road.
Miami opened the scoring with those two runs in the second. Owen Caissie pulled a 418-foot solo homer to right-center, and the Marlins followed that with two-out singles by Javier Sanoja and Liam Hicks. Sanoja then scored on a wild pitch.
The Marlins extended their lead to 3-0 in the third on Marsee’s RBI single.
Miami scored again in the fourth as Hicks doubled, took third on a bobble by center fielder Victor Robles and scored on Kyle Stowers’ sacrifice fly.
Seattle cut its deficit to 4-2 in the fifth as Cal Raleigh doubled, advanced on a groundout and scored on Luke Raley’s sacrifice fly. Cole Young then followed with a 354-foot solo homer down the right field line.
Meyer tired in the sixth, allowing a single and two walks. Enter reliever Michael Petersen, who got out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam without allowing a run. Petersen got Dominic Canzone on a groundout; struck out Raleigh; and got Josh Naylor on another groundout.
The Mariners took a 5-4 lead in the eighth on a rally that started with a walk issued by John King and a hit-by-pitch thrown by Calvin Faucher. Raleigh then won a nine-pitch at-bat, swinging at a 3-2 offering that was low and out of the zone. Even so, Raleigh reached out and hit an RBI double off the wall in right. Naylor then tied the score with an RBI single, and the Mariners went ahead on Faucher’s wild pitch.
Miami tied the score in the bottom of the eighth on pinch hitter Hernandez’s solo homer, a 422-foot blast.
