After a leadoff single by Bryan De La Cruz to begin the top of the sixth inning, Wheeler got ahead of his nemesis, Josh Bell, 0-2 before attempting to get Bell to chase after a breaking ball low and inside that landed in the dirt and got away from Marchan. De La Cruz took the chance to try for a swipe but Marchan recovered quickly to locate the ball and cast it to second to nab the runner.

The top of the seventh was a nightmare. Wheeler entered with a 3-0 shutout, got two outs on four pitches, then gave up back to back singles while throwing 16 pitches before being lifted for Matt Strahm. Wheeler was livid with home plate umpire, Emil Jimenez, who missed a clear strike three against Marlins’ catcher, Ali Sanchez, who worked a ten-pitch AB for the single that chased Wheeler from the game. With his first pitch, Strahm hit Jazz Chisholm to load the bases. De La Cruz came to bat and ripped a 1-1 fastball to the left-center gap to clear the bases, close the book on Wheeler, and level the score at 3-3.

Bell got a double of his own on the next pitch, scoring De La Cruz to give the Marlins the lead.

They would tie it back up in the bottom of the inning after a leadoff double by Turner, his second of the night. After Harper hit a deep fly to left field that was caught at the fence, Nick Gordon threw the ball back to the infield and it got past third baseman, Jake Burger, allowing Turner to move up to third. Alec Bohm worked a good six-pitch at-bat against Marlins’ reliever, Anthony Bender, that ended with a sacrifice fly to right field to score Turner.

Jeff Hoffman came in to handle the top of the eighth inning and promptly gave up a first-pitch home run to Burger.

Two pitches later he would give up a double to Gordon, who then reached third on a wild pitch. After getting one out, Marlins’ second baseman, Otto Lopez, hit a dribbler to short that got under the glove of Sosa and allowed Gordon to score.

Yunior Marte, appearing in his first game since April 30th, came on in mop up duty and struck out the first two batters he faced before allowing back to back singles with a steal in between to bring the final score to 7-4.

Kyle Schwarber left the game in the eighth inning for a reported groin tightness issue.

Despite leaving the game in jam and receiving a no decision, Wheeler did record his 13th quality start of the year, tops in the National League.

The four-game set against the Fish continues tomorrow with Cristopher Sanchez pitching, while the Marlins’ look to use reliever, Kyle Tyler, as an opener.