LOS ANGELES -- Liam Hicks and Esteury Ruiz went deep as the Marlins outslugged the reigning two-time World Series champion Dodgers, 3-2, on Wednesday afternoon at Dodger Stadium.
Miami won back-to-back road games for the first time this season, and captured its first series at Chavez Ravine since April 2018.
It didn’t come without some drama. Nursing a one-run cushion, righty Calvin Faucher walked consecutive batters to open the ninth before manager Clayton McCullough paid him a mound visit. Following a sacrifice bunt and an intentional walk of Shohei Ohtani to load the bases, Freddie Freeman grounded out to second baseman Xavier Edwards, who applied the tag on Ohtani and touched first base for the game-ending double play. A review confirmed the call.
With the game tied at 2 in the eighth, Edwards led off the inning with a single and moved to second on Hicks’ high chopper. After Connor Norby struck out, Javier Sanoja, who came in to pinch-hit for Owen Caissie in the sixth, blooped a sweeper out of the zone to right for the go-ahead RBI single.
Hicks, who was a late scratch from Tuesday’s lineup due to illness, got the Marlins going by ambushing right-hander Tyler Glasnow’s first pitch of the second -- a center-cut 93.9 mph four-seamer. He pulled it for his team-leading seventh homer of the season. With the long ball, Hicks surpassed his total as a rookie in 2025.
The Dodgers knotted the game at 1 in the bottom half of the frame with a sun-aided run.
After a leadoff double by Max Muncy, right-hander Sandy Alcantara retired the next two batters and seemed primed to get out of the inning unscathed when Alex Call popped up his sweeper. But shortstop Otto Lopez, who was wearing sunglasses, couldn’t pick up the ball, and it dropped between him and second baseman Edwards for the game-tying run.
Miami retook the lead in the fifth when former Dodger Ruiz slugged a go-ahead solo shot against Glasnow for his first hit as a Marlin. Like Hicks, Ruiz pulled a first-pitch four-seamer for his ninth career homer.
Ruiz, who received his 2025 World Series ring before Monday’s game, was making just his second start this season. He began the season on the injured list with a left oblique strain before being reinstated last Friday ahead of this six-game road trip.
Los Angeles once again evened the game at 2 in the sixth, when Alcantara gave up Dalton Rushing’s RBI single.