{"id":657150,"date":"2026-04-01T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657150\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:15:45","slug":"15-year-marliniversary-buck-blasts-grand-slam-in-fish-debut-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657150\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year Marliniversary: Buck blasts grand slam in Fish debut – Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAn All-Star for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2010, catcher\u00a0John Buck<\/a> signed with the Florida Marlins prior to the start of the 2011 season. On this day 15 years ago, Buck made his presence felt in his Marlins debut.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Marlins and New York Mets were scoreless through three and a half innings on opening day at Sun Life Stadium on April 1, 2011<\/a>. That changed with one swing of the bat from Buck as the Marlins went on to collect a 6-2 victory.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Marlins had gone in order in the second and third innings against New York starter Mike Pelfrey<\/a>, but after Hanley\u00a0Ram\u00edrez flew out to open the bottom of the fourth, walks to Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> and Logan Morris<\/a> bookended a Gaby S\u00e1nchez<\/a>\u00a0double. That set the stage for Buck.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBuck worked an eight-pitch at-bat in the second before flying out. In the fourth, Buck again saw eight Pelfrey pitches. This time, however, he was able to get the good part of the bat onto the ball, depositing a grand slam into the right-center field seats.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBuck\u2019s blast broke a scoreless tie and put the Marlins ahead for good. After S\u00e1nchez extended the lead with an RBI single in the fifth, the Mets finally got to Florida starter\u00a0Josh Johnson<\/a>, who took a no-hitter into the seventh, with a pair of runs. New York brought the tying run to the plate, but reliever Mike Dunn<\/a> was able to fan Scott Hairston<\/a> to end the threat.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA solo blast from Morrison to lead off the bottom of the eight capped the scoring. Juan Carlos Oviedo<\/a>, then known as Leo Nu\u00f1ez, retired the Mets in order to seal the victory.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson picked up the win, allowing two runs on just three hits in 6 \u2154 innings. Buck and S\u00e1nchez each had two of Florida\u2019s 10 hits.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBuck never equaled his 2010 totals when he hit .281 with 20 home runs and 66 RBIs but was serviceable in his two seasons with the Marlins. Buck hit just .227 in 2011, but his 16 home runs and 57 RBIs were the most for a Florida catcher in four years. He began his stay in South Florida with a bang on this day 15 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An All-Star for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2010, catcher\u00a0John Buck signed with the Florida Marlins prior to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,621,193,34091,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-657150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-highlights","10":"tag-history","11":"tag-john-buck","12":"tag-marlins","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-marlins","15":"tag-miamimarlins","16":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116330818860396118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}