After falling behind early, the Dodgers, who had 20 hits, broke
open the game with a 10-run fifth inning to beat the Marlins.
Bronco Division
Dodgers 20, Marlins 7
After falling behind early, the Dodgers, who had 20 hits, broke open the game with a 10-run fifth inning to beat the Marlins.
John Kinsey led the Dodger attack with five RBIs off two singles and a double.
The Dodgers’ Sean Schlaefli started out the game with a base hit and scored in the first inning.
The Marlins took the lead in the bottom of the first with three runs. Nick Swanson doubled, Jim Hagan scored and Conor Havstad hit an RBI single and scored.
In the bottom of the third, the Marlins’ Issac Allen doubled, and Allen and Garrett Taylor scored to give the Marlins a 5-1 lead.
But the Dodgers regained the lead in the fourth with six runs. Schlaefli, Garrett Gregory, Aaron Armijo and Dane Cleeton all had base hits and scored. John Kinsey and Sean Aitken also scored. Gregory and Alex Aguaristi each drove in a run.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, the Marlins got one run back to close within 7-6 after Jim Hagan tripled and scored.
In the fifth, the Dodgers put the game away with a 10-run rally. Schlaefli, Kinsey Daniel Barboza and Aaron Armijo all had doubles in the innings. Armijo brought in two runs with a ball that bounced over the center-field fence. Ben Hartl, Aitken, Cleeton and Schlaefli and Kinsey added singles.
The Marlins added one run in the fifth, and the Dodgers scored three in the seventh.
Hagan had a triple for the Marlins in the fourth inning.
Armijo, Schlaefli (WP) and Hartl pitched for the Dodgers, and Swanson (LP) and Havstad pitched for the Marlins.
