MIAMI -- Fresh off a successful road trip, the Marlins returned to South Florida hoping for a bit of home cooking. Starling Marte and Jazz Chisholm Jr. went deep, while the bullpen pitched four scoreless innings as the Marlins rallied for a 4-1 comeback win over the Giants on Friday night at loanDepot park. 

The Marlins have won five of six since the controversial walk-off hit-by-pitch on April 8 in New York. During their first homestand, they went 1-5 due in large part to underperformance from the bats and bullpen.

"To get a win coming back home, obviously played well on the trip, you'd like to get this thing started in a good way," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said during a Zoom call. “Tonight we did."

Below were the key ingredients to opening the homestand with a win.

A sprinkle of starting pitching
Rookie left-hander Daniel Castano allowed just one run over five innings in his season debut with about 35 friends and family in attendance. He induced nine groundouts, walked two but didn't strike out a batter. With Elieser Hernandez and Sixto Sánchez rehabbing injuries, Miami needed a fifth starter for the first time in 2021. The 26-year-old Castano stepped in, just like he did during a seven-game stint in ‘20, and kept the club in the ballgame.

“It was such such a great thing to get back out there,” Castano said. “I was so excited just to get back on the mound, get that rhythm going. I started to feel better as the game went on.”

A dash of defense
With the Giants not chasing out of the zone, there was plenty of contact. Chisholm and Miguel Rojas turned a dazzling 4-6-3 double play with runners at first and second with no outs in the second. 

“We literally talked about that the pitch before, too,” Chisholm said. “We're like, ‘Hey, ball hit to me, backing me up in any way, I'm going to lead you to the bag and you finish it.’ So we're literally on cue with each other, the same motion, and it literally happened right after, and we couldn't stop joking about it right after that happened.”

Later on with a runner on second and one out in the fourth, right fielder Adam Duvall recorded a three-star play by covering 95 feet in 5.1 seconds. There was a 55 percent catch probability, according to Statcast. He then made a second outstanding play in the eighth, when he robbed Donovan Solano of a hit with a diving grab on a sinking liner.

A spoonful of relief
Right-handers Adam Cimber, John Curtiss, Anthony Bass and Yimi García combined for four scoreless innings, continuing where the bullpen left off with a 3.33 ERA on the road. This is more of what the front office expected when it brought in seven new faces, not the unit that posted a 6.75 ERA on the first homestand.

Since taking over the closer role for Bass, García is 3-for-3 in save opportunities. After the blown save in New York, Bass has four straight scoreless outings. 

"All the guys that came in basically were getting the outs they needed, not giving up the big home run, so it's a pretty simple game," Mattingly said. "Some big outs in the middle there from Cimber and Curtiss, especially when we only had one lefty today available. I kind of know where they're going to pinch-hit. We knew Cimber was going to have to go through those guys there [in the sixth]."

A pinch of power
Entering Friday, Miami had slashed .218/.299/.316 with two homers, a .615 OPS and 3.2 runs per game in six home contests in 2021. Those numbers were skewed by a 12-7 win over the Rays, because the offense was also shut out twice.

In Friday’s opener, Miami matched the homer total and improved to 6-1 when going deep in a game. Chisholm was the spark with a fifth-inning tater -- the first of his young career at home. And just like in his Marlins debut in the thick of a playoff race, Marte was the difference with the tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth inning.

"I like it," Marte said via an interpreter. "I don't look for those moments. I think I can do the job for those moments, but I don't look to be that superhero-type of guy. As long as we win the game, that's the most important part."