Miami, for its part, walked into the finale down a bat — Owen Caissie went to the injured list with a lumbar stress reaction — and had still taken the middle game of the set behind Graham Pauley's go-ahead homer. That's the version of this series that made it into the numbers: a Marlins club playing loose after ending a skid, a Dodgers team that had just watched an 8-game winning streak snapped in this same building.
Josue De Paula made sure the finale wasn't only about the bullpen. In his major league debut, the rookie went 2-for-2 with a walk and turned around a 98-mph fastball for a three-run homer in the fourth inning, a 108-mph shot that traveled 416 feet and did the bulk of the Dodgers' scoring by itself.
None of that survived the eighth and ninth. Edgardo Henriquez let two runs in on a walk and two singles, Tanner Scott stranded that mess but came back out for the ninth and allowed a leadoff single, a bunt single and a two-run double that tied it, and Brock Stewart threw one pitch to the first hitter he saw and watched it leave the park. Four runs, one inning, series over.
The Polymarket chat felt it turning before the Dodgers' bullpen did — "wait for 9 inning," one poster holding Miami wrote well before the frame even started, with the room still clamoring for "home runs please!!!" minutes before Stewart supplied one. Miami leaves the weekend having taken two of three from the National League's best record; Los Angeles leaves with a gem from Sheehan the box score will never credit him for.