Red Sox rally past Marlins to complete fourth straight comeback win

Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald on Aug 24, 2026

Published in Baseball

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It was one Houdini act after another for the Boston Red Sox.

Monday night’s series opener against the Miami Marlins was the kind of game the Red Sox realistically had no business winning. The Marlins had runners on base all night and at any point could have broken things open with even one well-timed hit.

But somehow the Red Sox held the line, and eventually they came through with the big hit themselves.

The Red Sox beat the Marlins 4-2 on Monday, coming from behind to tie the game in the eighth on a wild pitch before scoring twice in the top of the ninth to take the lead. Anthony Seigler delivered the go-ahead RBI triple to put Boston ahead for good, and the Red Sox pitching staff collectively held Miami to 2 for 18 with runners in scoring position while stranding 14 men on base.

The victory also marked Boston’s fourth consecutive comeback win, including all three of the club’s games this past weekend over the San Francisco Giants.

Ranger Suarez, who has been effective but far from dominant ever since coming off the injured list on July 26, once again walked a tightrope.

The All-Star left-hander faced a ton of traffic throughout his outing, working around four hits, four walks and two hit batsmen. The Marlins had runners reach scoring position in four of his five innings, yet Suarez was able to minimize the damage to only one run.

The most dangerous spot came in the second when Suarez hit two batters and walked a man to load the bases with nobody out. The Marlins got one run in on a sacrifice fly by Otto Lopez, but Suarez was otherwise able to escape unscathed.

He finished with the one run allowed over five innings with four strikeouts, and the Marlins went 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight men against Suarez.

The Red Sox weren’t able to get much going against Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara, but the bats were able to rally against the 2022 National League Cy Young Award winner in the top of the sixth. Caleb Durbin led off with a single, was replaced at first by Jarren Duran on a fielder’s choice and Mickey Gasper tied the game with an RBI double to knot the score at 1-1.

That was all the offense either side could manage until the bottom of the seventh.

After coming on and throwing a 1-2-3 sixth inning, Brayan Bello came back out for the seventh and ran into immediate trouble. He gave up a leadoff double to Lopez, loaded the bases following a pair of walks and gave up the go-ahead RBI single to Xavier Edwards.

But like Suarez in the second, Bello limited the damage to one run. He drew a forceout at the plate when Willson Contreras knocked down a grounder at first base and made the throw home to nail the lead runner for the inning’s second out, and Bello then forced Javier Sanoja into an inning-ending groundout to shortstop.

The offense was quick to capitalize.

With Alcantara out of the game after allowing one run over seven dominant innings, Boston answered back with a run in the eighth to tie the game against the Marlins bullpen. Wilyer Abreu led off with a double, advanced to third on a flyout and scored on a wild pitch from right-hander Josh Ekness to knot the score at 2-2.

Perhaps the biggest escape of the night was executed by Erik Miller.

The Marlins once again got a man in scoring position when Leo Jimenez singled and reached second when Duran booted the routine base hit, allowing it to bounce past him in left field. Initially it appeared that Duran recovered and threw Jimenez out at second, but the call was overturned on replay to put a man at second with one out.

Otto Lopez subsequently beat out an infield single to make it runners at the corners, but Miller was able to stamp out the threat from there. He first drew a chopper and got the lead runner at third in a rundown for the second out, and then the left-hander struck out Kyle Stowers to keep it a tie game.

What happened next almost felt inevitable.

After Gasper drew a leadoff walk, Eli White was inserted into the game as a pinch runner. That set the stage for Seigler, who ripped a line drive down the right-field line and scored the speedy outfielder from first to put the Red Sox ahead.

Nick Sogard extended the lead with an RBI single, and Aroldis Chapman locked things down from there for his 30th save of the season. Chapman has now recorded 30 saves in a season 10 times, and with 397 for his career he’s within striking distance of becoming the ninth player in MLB history to reach 400 saves.

With the win the Red Sox (72-59) are now 13 games over .500, matching their high point of the season previously achieved at the end of the club’s nine-game win streak. The club will go for its fifth straight win and third straight series victory on Tuesday.

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