MIAMI—In a game where both teams struggled to find runs, it was a foul pole-scraping home run that wound up deciding it. Atlanta’s Adam Duvall somehow pulled on a slider away and just barely kept it fair down the left field line to bring in the pivotal run.
Both the Braves and Marlins starting pitchers—Max Fried and Daniel Castano—were locked into a pitchers’ duel, with neither side looking like they were going to let up first. Through six innings, both pitchers had given up zero runs, three hits, and two walks.