When Marlins Park became home stadium to the Miami Marlins in 2012, and one of the stadium’s signature pieces were the two 450-gallon salt water aquariums that sat behind home plate.
And ever since that time, no baseball had ever cracked the supposedly shatterproof acrylic glass of the tank … until now.
On Friday, Marlins catcher J.T. Realmuto hit a foul ball off the Diamondbacks’ Patrick Corbin at the bottom of the first inning that flew at a weird angle and somehow smashed the fish tank to the right of home plate.
The @Marlins bats are awake – and so are the aquarium fish thanks to Realmuto – as they lead 4-0 after 1.