The 2025 Marlins have more wins than the infamous 2024 squad and they got there with 28 games to spare. They cooled the streaking Mets Thursday night in a gritty 7-4 victory. Miami forfeited leads of 1-0 and 4-2 early, but a three-run seventh and rock-solid relief appearances from Cade Gibson, Ronny Henriquez and Calvin Faucher put the nail in New York’s coffin.

All night, Miami’s offense did just enough to get on base and sustain rallies. The Fish eked out three infield hits while New York assisted their division-rival’s efforts with three errors. Each Met blunder directly led to runs to the dismay of the home crowd.

In the third, a softly hit Troy Johnston ground ball was dropped on the transfer from Pete Alonso to pitcher Clay Holmes. Liam Hicks was able to cross as Holmes scrambled to recover.

Four frames later, lightning struck twice.

Moments after Alonso took his eye off a potential double play ball, Brandon Nimmo scuffled to field a missile off the bat of Agustín Ramírez, opening the door for Jakob Marsee to cross, putting Miami back in front. It was the sure-handed Nimmo’s first error of the season.

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Unqualified for a decision due to getting an early hook after only four frames, Adam Mazur impressed in his second look as a Marlin.

 

The 24-year-old surrendered an immediate two runs in his first inning of work, but settled in nicely, delivering a scoreless final three. Mazur flashed an improved four-seam, as the pitch averaged 95.7 mph on the gun compared to 94.8 his first go-around in mid-June. Mazur’s heater was responsible for two of his eight whiffs, with four coming on his wipeout slider.

Winning any of the three remaining games of the series would secure at least a split for the Marlins. That’d be significant for a slumping club that has dropped seven consecutive series dating back to August 4.

Friday night’s second game features two arms destined to haunt opposing NL East teams’ nightmares for a decade in Eury Pérez and Jonah Tong—the latter making his MLB debut. First pitch is slated for 7:10.