Even before the 13-run inning, it wasn’t close.
Friday’s Dominican Summer League game between DSL Rangers Blue and DSL Miami featured quite the lopsided result -- an impressive 29-0 win for one of the Marlins’ Rookie-level affiliates.
No MLB team in the Modern Era (since 1900) has ever won by such a high margin, and only one has scored more than 29 runs -- the 2007 Rangers in a memorable 30-3 rout of the Orioles. The last big league contest to have a 29-run margin came in 1897 when the Chicago Orphans (now Cubs) topped the Louisville Colonels, 36-7, on June 29, 1897.
Friday’s contest at the Marlins’ complex in the Dominican Republic evoked those historic drubbings, with DSL Miami plating 13 runs across the first four innings to immediately take a commanding lead. The host team granted the visiting Rangers Blue squad a reprieve by failing to score in the fifth -- only to come out for the bottom of the sixth and DOUBLE the lead with a 13-run frame. Three Miami runs and three innings later, it was over.
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DSL Miami became just the fifth Minor League team since 2007 to win by 29 or more runs, with three of the other four also taking place in the DSL -- including a 38-2 rout by the DSL Yankees of the DSL Twins in 2019.
It was quite the offensive performance for the Marlins' affiliate, which got five hits and five RBIs from leadoff man Johan Machado and four hits and four RBIs from center fielder Sandy Presbot. But for all of Miami’s offensive prowess, its pitching had quite the day, too: Starter Elier Morillo struck out eight in three scoreless, one-hit innings.