Anatomy of a 9 run inning.

Its not every day we see 9 runs on ten hits... First of all, 9 runs is a season record 1 short of the franchise record. 10 hits in an inning ties a franchise record. In total they ended up with 12 runs on 20 hits and this lead to big games including Jose Reyes with a 4-5 including 3 doubles and John Buck, yes the one and only John Buck went 4 for 5 which prompted this great tweet by @fishatbat

Oh yeah and I think Stanton homered? But I'll get to that.

Joe Saunders was rolling into the fourth when Solano starts the inning with a nice bloop hit. Jose Reyes outdid his blooper with another blooper and they were in business. Runners on the corners no out. On a hit and run, Carlos Lee hits a routine ground ball to the spot the 2B would of been to score the run and tie the game. The Marlins are nickel and diming Joe Saunders to death. Then of course Stanton comes up and goes YARD...again. 442 feet as shown on hittrackeronline.com (great resource for your home run disntance needs)

Ruggiano says hey Stanton anything you can do I can do better and hits one exactly 442 feet as well. Ahhh there is nothing like a healthy Justin Ruggiano! 5-1 Fish. (The home runs of Ruggiano and Stanton were actually the two longest home runs of the day)

The inning could of ended there but no John Buck singles, Murphy and Buehrle are out and back to the top of the lineup. Bonifacio picks a great time for an infield single. Solano decides to frustrate Saunders with ANOTHER bloop hit to score Buck. Finally, Reyes puts the nail in Saunders night with a bases clearing double to make it 8-1.... Oh we aren't done! Carlos Lee greets the new pitcher with a single and RBI and we end with a 9-1 game. This is how it looks.

Miami - Top of 4th	SCORE
Joe Saunders pitching for Arizona	MIA	ARI
D Solano singled to center.	0	1
J Reyes singled to shallow right, D Solano to third.	0	1
C Lee reached on infield single to second, D Solano scored, J Reyes to second.	1	1
G Stanton homered to left (442 feet), J Reyes and C Lee scored.	4	1
J Ruggiano homered to center (442 feet).	5	1
J Buck singled to left center.	5	1
D Murphy flied out to center.	5	1
M Buehrle bunt popped out to pitcher.	5	1
E Bonifacio reached on infield single to third, J Buck to second.	5	1
D Solano singled to right, J Buck scored, E Bonifacio to third.	6	1
J Reyes doubled to deep left, E Bonifacio and D Solano scored.	8	1
B Bergesen relieved J Saunders.	8	1
C Lee singled to center, J Reyes scored, C Lee thrown out at second attempting to advance on play.	9	1
9 Runs, 10 Hits, 0 Errors

Or for you visual learners! http://miami.marlins.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=24077753&c_id=mia

It is always fun to see innings when a team is just going off like the Marlins did. 

-Giancarlo Stanton homered completing the game with his 26th homer later on in the game bringing about this ridiculous stat. In 11 games in a NL west city (SF, SD, Col, Az), he has homered 9 times. 35 percent of his home runs are in the NL West cities and he still has 6 more games out there. WOW. Marlins are also 9-2 in those 11 games. Coincidence? The best part of his home runs are the reactions of the Dback players. 

They are pretty much in shock and awe of Mr. Giancarlo Stanton. Awesome reactions, but at this point I think that's the reaction everyone around the league has every time Mr. Stanton sends one deep.