DENVER -- That’s life, that’s what all the people say
You’re ridin’ high in April, shot down in May
But I know I’m gonna change that tune
When I’m back on top, back on top in June …
Sixty years have passed since Frank Sinatra sang these iconic lyrics, but they perfectly speak to the 2026 Marlins.
Upstart Miami rode momentum from the final three months of its 2025 campaign into this season, then crashed hard. On May 31, the Marlins had fallen to a season-high eight games below .500 (26-34, National League’s third-worst record) after being swept by the Mets in Queens.
Anything that could go wrong did.
Robby Snelling, Eury Pérez and Janson Junk sustained injuries, forcing Miami to send out a makeshift rotation. The bullpen often incurred self-inflicted wounds, walking batters that would’ve otherwise been retired by nasty stuff. Outside of All-Star hopefuls Otto Lopez, Xavier Edwards and Liam Hicks, the lineup lacked consistent production and became a hot topic of social media debate among fans.
Each time I find myself
Flat on my face
I pick myself up and get
Back in the race
The calendar turned to June -- and just like that, the narrative changed.
By routing the Rockies, 14-3, on Tuesday night at Coors Field, the Marlins finished the month with 20 wins -- just the second time in franchise history they've won that many games in a single month (also May 2012, 21 games).
Miami (46-40) is six games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2023 season, when the club claimed a National League Wild Card spot. The Marlins are percentage points behind the Cardinals (44-38), whom they took two of three games from over the weekend to begin this three-city trip, for the third WC spot.
On Tuesday, Pérez allowed just one run over 5 1/3 innings in his second start back from the injured list. The Marlins set season highs for runs and hits (21) as six Marlins finished with multiple hits and seven drove in at least one run for a lineup that rested Lopez.
Owen Caissie, Joe Mack and Javier Sanoja, who finished a home run shy of the cycle in the series opener, went deep. Caissie (453 feet) and Mack (450 feet) became the second Marlins duo to crush homers of at least 450 feet in the same game, joining Christian Yelich and Giancarlo Stanton (May 6, 2016).