Los Angeles Dodgers at Miami Marlins: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAD | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 1 |
| MIA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
The Story
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Miami Marlins 6-2 at loanDepot park on September 11, 2026, handing Miami a loss that the DiamondIQ model's estimate reflected sharply, as the Marlins entered with a 41% pre-game win probability and finished at 0%. The game was largely a pitching stalemate through the first five innings before Los Angeles broke through with a run in the sixth and then blew the contest open with a four-run seventh inning that effectively ended any realistic path back for Miami.
The decisive moment came in the top of the seventh when Kyle Tucker launched a home run off Cade Gibson that registered as the single largest win-probability swing of the game, adding 29.9 percentage points in favor of the Dodgers. Tucker had already been the central offensive figure before that blast, tripling off Ryan Gusto in the sixth inning for a gain of 8.8 percentage points, and Will Smith followed that triple with a run-scoring single worth an additional 6.2 points. Tucker finished as the game's top performer by a wide margin, accumulating a combined WPA of plus 40.5 and an RE24 of plus 4.3. Miami's most meaningful offensive moment came in the bottom of the sixth when Agustín Ramírez doubled off Evan Phillips for a swing of plus 11.6 percentage points, briefly narrowing the gap before the Dodgers' seventh-inning surge rendered it moot. Alex Freeland's strikeout double play in the fourth, a minus 5.4 percentage point swing off Gusto, was the clearest example of Los Angeles squandering early opportunities before Tucker ultimately made them irrelevant.
On the mound, Blake Snell was the standout contributor for Los Angeles, posting a WPA of plus 22.9, while Ryan Gusto led Miami's pitching staff at plus 6.4 despite surrendering the critical Tucker triple and Smith single in the sixth. Brock Stewart added plus 1.7 for the Dodgers. Los Angeles finished with eight hits and committed no errors, while Miami collected ten hits but was unable to convert them into enough runs against a Dodgers pitching staff that kept the Marlins' offense largely contained outside of Ramírez's sixth-inning double.