{"id":186741,"date":"2026-04-06T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186741\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:39:08","slug":"marlins-7-yankees-6-edwards-delivers-as-miami-rallies-late-to-avoid-sweep-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186741\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins 7, Yankees 6 \u2014 Edwards Delivers as Miami Rallies Late to Avoid Sweep in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Marlins came to Yankee Stadium and lost the first two. They played through a rain delay, gave up a three-run homer in the first inning, fell behind 4-1, watched their emergency starter last exactly one inning, and spent most of Easter Sunday chasing Max Fried.<\/p>\n

Then Xavier Edwards stepped in.<\/p>\n

The Trinidad-born second baseman drove in three runs \u2014 including a two-run single in the eighth that broke the game open \u2014 as the Miami Marlins rallied from three runs down to beat the New York Yankees 7-6 on Sunday afternoon, avoiding the sweep and leaving the Bronx with something to build on. Miami improves to 6-3. The Yankees fall to 7-2.<\/p>\n

The pipeline delivered when it mattered most. Again.<\/p>\n

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Miami Marlins outfielders Griffin Conine, left, Owen Caissie, right, and Jakob Marsee, behind, celebrate after a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n

A Day That Started Sideways<\/p>\n

Pete Fairbanks wasn\u2019t supposed to be here. The right-hander got an emergency start \u2014 the Marlins moving Chris Paddack back so Fairbanks could get home ahead of his wife\u2019s induced labor Monday morning. It was a gesture of humanity in a sport that doesn\u2019t always make room for it.<\/p>\n

Oh baby! Marlins\u2019 Pete Fairbanks starts rather than closes so he can get home for child\u2019s birth<\/a><\/p>\n

Baseball didn\u2019t return the favor. Ben Rice hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the first, his third of the season, to put New York ahead 3-1 before Fairbanks had found his footing. He was out after one inning.<\/p>\n

Chris Paddack took over in the third and gave Miami exactly what they needed \u2014 4\u2154 innings, one run, four strikeouts \u2014 to keep the game within reach. He wasn\u2019t sharp, but he was enough.<\/p>\n

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Miami Marlins pitcher Pete Fairbanks throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n

The rain delay alone lasted 3 hours and 35 minutes before first pitch. By the time Fairbanks took the mound, it had been nearly six years since his last start \u2014 September 21, 2020, with Tampa Bay against the Mets. The Yankees made him pay immediately.<\/p>\n

Xavier Edwards Is the Story<\/p>\n

The number defines the start. Through nine games, Xavier Edwards is hitting .471.<\/p>\n

In the fourth, with Miami trailing 4-1, Edwards lined a double to right off Fried to score Connor Norby and cut the deficit. In the sixth, Otto Lopez walked, stole second, and scored on a Jos\u00e9 Caballero throwing error that brought the Marlins within one.<\/p>\n

Then came the eighth.<\/p>\n

Down 4-3, Marsee walked. Lopez walked. Griffin Conine took a pitch off the hip to load the bases. Graham Pauley \u2014 pinch-hitting for Norby \u2014 lined a two-run double to right off Jake Bird that flipped the score to 5-4. Then Edwards singled to center, scoring two more. It was 7-4.<\/p>\n

The game flipped. The series didn\u2019t \u2014 but the story did.<\/p>\n

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Miami Marlins\u2019 Otto Lopez reacts as he scores on a double hit by Graham Pauley during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n

The Ninth Wasn\u2019t Clean<\/p>\n

Anthony Bender does not make anything easy. He walked Bellinger, walked Rice, and then Jazz Chisholm Jr. \u2014 born in the Bahamas, one of the most electric players in this series \u2014 lined a two-run double to right that made it 7-6 and brought the tying run to the plate. Bender intentionally walked Austin Wells to load the bases. J.C. Escarra came up as a pinch hitter.<\/p>\n

Strikeout swinging. Ballgame.<\/p>\n

Bender made it messy, then made it hold \u2014 which, at this point, is its own version of clean.<\/p>\n

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Miami Marlins pitcher Anthony Bender, right, and catcher Liam Hicks celebrate after a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Sunday, April 5, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n

The Series, Closed<\/p>\n

Three games. Two cities worth of tension. A rain delay, an emergency start, a four-run eighth that rewrote Easter Sunday in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

New York walked 29 times in three games \u2014 one shy of the franchise record for a three-game series, set in 1934. The Yankees were 6-for-38 with runners in scoring position across the series. The Marlins\u2019 ABS challenge record: 10-for-11 before losing two in the ninth.<\/p>\n

The WBN thread ran through all of it. Edwards \u2014 Trinidad \u2014 was the best hitter in the series. Hern\u00e1ndez \u2014 Dominican Republic \u2014 opened Game 2 with a triple that set the tone. Sanoja \u2014 Venezuela \u2014 kept answering late. On the New York side, Chisholm \u2014 Bahamas \u2014 stole bases and nearly flipped the finale. Caballero \u2014 Panama \u2014 made the error in the sixth that gave Miami life, then threw out Lopez at the plate on a reviewed call in the same inning.<\/p>\n

Baseball without borders, played at Yankee Stadium over three days in early April.<\/p>\n

The Marlins didn\u2019t win the series. They showed you who they are. The pipeline is producing. The margin still lives on the mound.<\/p>\n

The Miami File \u2014 World Baseball Network Coverage<\/p>\n

Photo: World Baseball Network graphic highlighting Miami\u2019s 7\u20136 win over the New York Yankees on April 5, 2026. Background photo: Miami Marlins pitcher Anthony Bender, right, and catcher Liam Hicks celebrate after the game at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Marlins came to Yankee Stadium and lost the first two. They played through a rain delay,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-186741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}