MIAMI – The Braves entered Monday night’s series opener with the most wins in the Majors. The Marlins came in losers of nine of their last 14 games.
That all went out the window in Miami’s 12-0 romp of Atlanta at loanDepot park, where the Marlins set a franchise record for largest run differential in a shutout at home.
“It was a lot of really good at-bats today, and it was nice to see us string a bunch of them together, to create traffic, and then be able to cash in,” manager Clayton McCullough said.
Here are some noteworthy stats from the victory, which saw the Marlins collect a season-high 12 runs:
1 career grand slam for Javier Sanoja
In a six-run fifth inning, Sanoja turned on an inside four-seamer from lefty Aaron Bummer and lined it just fair over the left-field wall. While it was Sanoja’s first homer of the season, he went deep in a similar location during the World Baseball Classic for Venezuela.
Sanoja became the ninth player in franchise history, and first since Justin Bour (June 10, 2016 at Arizona) to hit a grand slam batting ninth in the lineup. He was just the fourth non-pinch-hitter to achieve the feat.
“What can I say?” Sanoja said via interpreter Luis Dorante Jr. “I was very happy for this. It's my first grand slam in the big leagues, hopefully the first of many, God's will. It was a good home run in the right moment, and I'm very happy for the victory, very happy for everything that happened today.”
3 times reaching base for Connor Norby
Norby said pregame that he wanted a Marlins win and two hits after meeting up with his younger brother and other members of his alma mater’s baseball team. He singled and walked twice.
4 RBIs (single-game career high) from Joe Mack
Miami got on the scoreboard first on Mack’s sharply hit RBI groundout (106.3 mph exit velocity) that deflected off first baseman Matt Olson in the second. He tacked on a ground-ball two-run single off second baseman Ozzie Albies in the fourth. Mack capped his production with a bases-loaded walk in a six-run fifth.
The Marlins’ No. 4 prospect (No. 44 overall) had just two career RBIs in 38 plate appearances to open his Major League career. This marked his first career multi-RBI performance.
“Just being able to get my good swings off, my ‘A’ swings,” Mack said. “Just felt really good, and [I’m] looking to multiply that and stack these days.”
Between Sanoja and Mack, this was the first instance in Marlins history that the eighth and ninth batters in the order each notched at least four RBIs.
5 homers (career high) for Xavier Edwards
Edwards, who entered 2026 with four career homers in 904 at-bats, has already surpassed that total in 177 at-bats this season.
After Sanoja crushed his grand slam, Edwards pulled a sinker over the left-center wall to give Miami its second instance of back-to-back homers this season. According to Elias Sports Bureau, Sanoja and Edwards became the second pair of Marlins teammates to hit back-to-back taters with the first being a grand slam (Derrek Lee and Charles Johnson on April 7, 1998).
Three of the switch-hitting Edwards’ five long balls this season have come against left-handers. Entering 2026, he had not gone deep as a right-handed bat.
Six innings for Max Meyer
Meyer became just the fifth pitcher since April 3 to shut out the Braves over at least six frames. His ERA dropped to 2.85 – lowest among Miami’s starting staff and 13th in the NL -- and he did so against the team with the second-most runs scored in MLB.
It didn’t seem possible for Meyer to put together this type of start since he required 45 pitches to get through two innings. Plus, he had to deal with a long delay when home-plate umpire Alfonso Márquez exited in the second due to a foul ball off his mask.
“I don't think I even looked at the last start,” said Meyer, who gave up three runs over five innings last month in Atlanta. “I can't remember what I did against them. Just every game I don't look in the past or anything. I'm just focused on whatever the next game is. Whatever [assistant pitching coach] Rob [Marcello]'s telling me to throw, I'm going to throw."
42 RBIs (MLB lead) for Liam Hicks
Hicks knuckled a two-run double off right fielder Mike Yastrzemski’s glove in the five-run fourth inning. Hicks had 45 RBIs in 119 games during his rookie season in 2025.