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Nico Hoerner didn’t need to see the baseball land to know Dansby Swanson had hit it over the fence. Leading off from second base, Hoerner turned and paused, picking up the trajectory of the long fly ball to the middle of the left-field bleachers. He put both hands in the air, knowing he had all the time in the world to jog to the plate.
The Cubs would go on to beat the Marlins 5-2, but Swanson’s fifth-inning home run broke up a scoreless tie and opened the floodgates for the Cubs offense.