Ontario native Caissie leads Marlins to victory over Blue Jays

TORONTO -- All three Marlins Canucks contributed with their bats in Monday night’s 8-2 victory over the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

Miami has won a season-high four straight games.

The Marlins jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first when Xavier Edwards led off with a double, moved to third on Liam Hicks’ groundout and scored on Otto Lopez’s sacrifice fly.

Lopez, who moved from the Dominican Republic to Montreal with his family as a kid and signed with the Blue Jays as an international free agent in 2016, played for Team Canada for the second consecutive World Baseball Classic this spring.

Miami added a run in the fifth courtesy of another Canadian. With one out, Javier Sanoja and Owen Caissie knocked back-to-back doubles.

Caissie, who grew up in nearby Burlington, made his Major League debut with the Cubs at Rogers Centre on Aug. 14, 2025. He tacked on an RBI single in the eighth, giving him seven RBIs over his last five games.

In a three-run sixth, the third member of the Marlins’ Canadian trio, Hicks, walked and scored from first on Kyle Stowers’ two-out double. The ball dropped in front of a sliding left fielder Yohendrick Piñango, who accidentally kicked it far enough for Hicks to race around the bases on the play. Sanoja later tacked on a two-run double over Piñango’s head.