Some called it “Comeback Friday” — but the best dramatic finish was a rally that fell short.

@Marlins 3, Mets 2 — Voice of the Marlins on Marcell Ozuna’s late heroics: “The best arm out of the bullpen tonight was the left fielder!” Twice in the last two innings, Ozuna nailed the would-be tying run at home with pegs as pretty as a picture.

The first was just a spot-on, one-hop strike against a bad gamble, and David Wright was out easily. Those watching closely noted that Ozuna — a regular center fielder playing left in this game — had not a cannon arm, but stretched its range by dint of hustle, textbook form, and accuracy. The insight shaded how they saw the second play unfold, starting with one out in the 9th, Kirk Nieuwenhuis on third, full count to Chris Young, closer Steve Cishek struggling once more against the team that works him hardest:

High fly to left, looks deep enough … Yes, Ozuna’s drifting back; that’ll tie the game, for sure — he doesn’t have THAT much arm … Wait, now he’s running forward — it wasn’t hit that deeply, after all; Ozuna planned it out just right … Takes it in stride, a quick release — could he do it again? … Nieuwenhuis is pretty fast, only a perfect throw can get him … Hey, now — it looks on line — Salty’s not moving … Here comes the slide, this could be close … HE’S OUT! And the Marlins win!

• If my search is right, it’s the first game-ending flyball double play at home plate since August 21, 2011 (Austin Jackson on Kosuke Fukudome). There was another that year, Andrew McCutchen nailed by Jayson Werth, with his team down 3 runs. Last before that was 2008, by fresh defensive replacement Darin Erstad. Vlad Guerrero did it in 2007, then nothing prior until 1997. (Here’s a Kong klassic in 1986, his team behind by seven.) In all, ten such events since 1980.
• While I’m at it … No hits have wound up as game-ending outfield assists at home plate this year. Three last year, with a doozy that you might recall on this same date: Josh Donaldson, running from first base, tried to score on a single that Craig Gentry bobbled, but the relay through Elvis Andrus got him. (And here’s one that probably would be ruled interference with the new rules.)
• Henderson Alvarez seemed to be limping in the 3rd inning, but he’s not giving up a start against his pet opponent: Now 19 straight scoreless innings against the Mets, and 4-0, 1.01 in 5 starts since last year.
• Twice the Fish seemed sure to pad their 1-0 lead against Daisuke Matsuzaka: A replay overrule took off a 2-run homer by Garrett Jones. In the 6th, men on the corners with no outs — but Dice-K fanned his last batter, and Josh Edgin induced a 4-6-3, remaining perfect in 17 first batters faced this year.

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Blue Jays 14, @Reds 9 — Toronto rallied from an 8-0 hole, the largest comeback win of the last two years, and notched the tying and lead runs off relief aces who’d gone unscathed for a month.

Cincy clobbered Liam Hendriks with an 8-run 2nd, homers by Devin Mesoraco and Jay Bruce. But Blue Jay power kept on biting chunks out of that lead. Edwin Encarnacion’s 22nd came with two aboard, but in the 6th he smacked himself for missing a hanger that could have been a tying slam. Two more Jays went yard in the 7th, as Juan Francisco’s pinch-jack closed the gap to one. Dioner Navarro doubled to tie it in the 8th, after Jonathan Broxton walked Encarnacion with two outs. Aroldis Chapman started his downfall with a leadoff walk, and Erik Kratz spanked a double off the wall in left for Toronto’s first lead. Chapman departed with two outs, two in, two on, after Bautista drew his 4th walk (and the 9th off Reds pitching). Encarnacion added the crowning touch, as if to say, “that’s what I do with hangers.”

• Broxton and Chapman together had allowed 3 runs in 41 IP this year, and a .108 BA.
• Encarnacion seized the MLB lead with 23 HRs and 62 RBI.
• Right-hander Jumbo Diaz was touched for two home runs in his debut, at age 30, twelve years after starting his career. Listed at 315 pounds, he’s just the second in MLB history with an acknowledged weight of 300+. And for that honesty, if no other reason, I wish Jumbo better days ahead.

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@Yankees 5, Orioles 3 — The O’s were crushed by two-out thunder, as two struggling Bombers pulled New York from a 3-1 hole to victory. Zach Britton was one strike away from choking off the rally, but he lost Mark Teixeira on balls. Brian McCann’s hit scored one, and pushed the tying run to second. Carlos Beltran was hitting .168 with one home run since April 22, but Britton worked him carefully, and fell into a 3-and-1 count. His next pitch would have been ball four, but Beltran slugged the chest-high fastball deep to left, for New York’s first walk-off win since last August, and his first game-winning hit since 2008.

Until the 9th, the story was two starting pitchers staring at decisions not in line with their performance. Ubaldo Jimenez skated past 6 walks and 6 hits in 5.2 innings, with just one run; Adam Jones nailed Beltran at the plate to end a sacks-full threat, and Teixeira’s bouncer stranded three more in the 5th. Meanwhile, the Birds went hitless off Hiroki Kuroda until Nick Hundley’s leadoff double in the 6th, then took the lead when Jones beat the shift with a flare through the second baseman’s spot. An unearned run in the 9th gave Baltimore an even clearer path to tie the Yanks for 2nd in the AL East, as Britton had allowed but 3 runs in 38 IP while blowing just one of 17 leads this year. But every new closer must learn to leave disasters in the past, and now it’s Britton’s turn, after his first loss in that role.

• The Yanks’ two walk-off home runs last year were hit by Brett Gardner and Ichiro Suzuki. Their last game-winner from behind came against the O’s in 2010, Nick Swisher off Koji Uehara.
• Kuroda had one serious brush with no-no history: July 7, 2008, perfect through seven, then Teixeira’s leadoff double in the 8th, but he finished clean. That’s one of 14 one-hitters in the last 10 years with no other baserunners; 27 no-hitters in that same span.

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@Padres 6, Dodgers 5 — Three runs in the 9th gave San Diego their second 3-win streak this year, as they took unprecedented liberties with Kenley Jansen’s stuff. In 32 prior encounters, Jansen had held the Pads to 7 runs and 20 hits, and never more than two of either. But this year’s been a whole new ballgame for the man whose cutter most evokes the Great Mariano’s signature. One of the game’s most dominant in his first four years (.158 BA), Jansen yielded 3 hits just seven times in those 216 games. But Friday, the first three Friars (all batting near .200) scored loud hits off Jansen, and Will Venable’s tying double found the seam between two not-so-rangy flycatchers. Rene Rivera got a bunt down, and Everth Cabrera lifted Jansen’s first pitch plenty deep enough to right, especially with Yasiel Puig out of the game.

• If no man is an island, then Seth Smith’s an isthmus. With Friday’s two homers, double and walk, Smith now leads the eight SD regulars in BA by .291-.249 (five at .210 or lower); in OBP by .396 to .300; in slugging by .527-.357; and thus in OPS by 44% over his closest compadre.
• Dee Gordon opened with his 8th triple, and scored on Jace Petersen’s pointless overthrow. It’s the first time since Kenny Lofton in 2004 that a game’s first batter tripled and scored on the same play.

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Atlanta 6, @Washington 4 (13 inn.) — A shocking blown save didn’t prevent Atlanta from extending their record in this series to 20-7 since last year. Anthony Rendon tied the game with two outs in the 9th on a 2-run homer, the first off Craig Kimbrel this year. A leadoff walk was Kimbrel’s first mistake — as it was for the Nats’ Jerry Blevins in the 13th. After that pass to B.J. Upton (0 for 5, .205 BA), Freddie Freeman and Evan Gattis singled to send him home. Jordan Walden’s clean save kept Washington hitless in overtime, and the Georgians leapfrogged back into first place.

• Momentum changers? Rendon’s hit marked the 6th time this year that a team down to its final out has tied a game they trailed by 2 runs or more. Those teams have lost 5 of the 6 games, including 3 of 4 at home.
• Kimbrel has blown 4 of 25 save tries this year, but Atlanta’s won three of them, and had an extra-inning lead in the other.

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@Twins 5, White Sox 4 — Minnesota bounced back from wasting a 4-2 lead in the 9th inning, as Brian Dozier’s 2-out single in the bottom half drove in a man who got to second on two straight walks. Two ChiSox soloed in the 1st inning, but Ricky Nolasco and the bullpen held them down until the final frame. Kurt Suzuki’s 3-for-4 keyed Minnesota’s march into the lead. Four straight hits off Glen Perkins tied the game, but Perkins got a bags-full GDP from Gordon Beckham to stanch the bleeding.

• Jose Abreu hit #21 his first time up, but missed in three chances to tie Wally Berger and Mark McGwire for the most home runs in a player’s first 60 games. His 54th RBI tied Albert Pujols and Rudy York for 10th-most through 60 games (since 1914).
• Eduardo Escobar has 22 doubles out of 55 hits this year. In three prior trials, 9 doubles in 69 hits, very like his career minor-league rate.

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Detroit 6, @Cleveland 4 — The Tigers built a 5-0 bulge on Martinez mashes (Victor early, J.D. late), then withstood a reply volley of two bombs in a 4-run 8th. Joe Nathan struck out two and saved his second in two days.

V-Mart’s homer/strikeout balance suffered in the KC series (0/4), but he stroked his 18th to score Miguel Cabrera for a 2-0 Bengals lead in the 3rd. Rick Porcello kept the Ohioans off the board through six hard-working stanzas, and Corey Kluber gave Detroit nothing more through seven. With two outs in the 8th, John Axford’s wild pitch moved Miggy up to second and spurred three wide ones to Victor, but J.D. rocked the next pitch out to right field.

That seemed like a game-breaker … for a few minutes. Asdrubal Cabrera banged his own 3-run job, off an 0-2 pitch from Ian Krol, and Carlos Santana followed one out later with his 10th, slicing the lead to one. But Detroit bought an insurance marker with two outs in the 9th, and Nathan fanned Michael Bourn with a man aboard to end it.

• With 3 for 4 off righties tonight, J.D. Martinez is 30 for 72 in that same-side matchup, 5 HRs and 10 doubles.
• Santana’s hitting (at last!) .333 in 14 games this month, 4 HRs and 11 RBI, and still drawing walks as always.

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@Athletics 4, Red Sox 3 —

• 18-30: Boston’s record against teams at or above .500.
• 27-18: Oakland’s record in that measure.
• 11-65, 3 walks: Xander Bogaerts since Stephen Drew took over shortstop. He hit .296 with a .389 OBP before.
• 50-1: Sean Doolittle’s K/W ratio.
• 14 of 18: Ratio of 1-2-3 innings since Doolittle claimed the closer role; he’s allowed three hits and a walk.
• 23%: Ratio of all Oakland HRs that scored at least 3 runs (19 of 84). MLB average is 14%, so they’re seven ahead of expectations. Derek Norris, Brandon Moss and Josh Donaldson have 14 combined; no other team has more.

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Brewers 13, @Rockies 10 — Marco Estrada’s first start in Coors Field went as you’d expect from someone who’d served up 23 home runs in 84 innings this year. Or nearly as expected: Estrada let in 6 runs in the first two innings (his HR streak reaching 11 games), and 7 runs on 10 hits in 5.2 IP overall — but he came out with a win. Milwaukee’s 13 runs and 19 hits were their best output since 2012, and they set or tied season highs with 3 HRs and 6 doubles.

The game’s first five half-innings saw 32 batters, 13 runs on 16 hits, 3 homers (two by 8th hitter Jean Segura), 5 doubles, 3 steals, and no ovals on the scoreboard.

• 7th loss this year for a team scoring 10+ runs — four in Coors, three by the Rox.
• Name the MLB leader in batting average against RHPs over the last two years (300+ PAs). Miguel Cabrera is #2 at .343. This guy also ranks 16th in OPS for this split, so he’s not just a slapper.

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Mariners 7, @Royals 5 — A 5-0 lead slipped away from Hisashi Iwakuma. But Brad Miller led off the 9th with Seattle’s third homer of the game, on a 1-2 pitch from Greg Holland, and Fernando Rodney fanned Alex Gordon with the tying runs aboard to seal it.

• For Holland, it’s the first meaningful run allowed on a 1-2 or 0-2 pitch in the last two years. (He gave up a solo homer on 0-2 last year with a 3-run lead, then whiffed the last two.) In his career, batters are 31 for 310 with 201 Ks in those counts.
• Robinson Cano’s two hits put him at .337 BA, .448 SLG. Just one qualifier since 1990 has hit .335 and up with no more than .115 of isolated power (SLG minus BA): Ichiro, four times.

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@Cubs 6, Pirates 3 — The one-two punch of Anthony Rizzo and Starlin Castro drove in 5 runs in the 3rd, putting both on pace for 90+ RBI: A modest figure, but in the past three years, just two (ex-)Cubs got there, and neither Rizzo nor Castro has ever topped 80 RBI.

• The Cubs had MLB’s worst record on June 1, but their run differential wasn’t nearly that bad. Since then their close-game results have begun to even out: 4-1 in one-run games, 11-6 overall, bringing their season record closer to what the runs predict.
• Andrew McCutchen went 0-4, and Pittsburgh lost. So, you think they’re a one-man team? … Since 2013, when Cutch failed to reach safely in 4+ times at bat, their record is 15-13.

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Astros 3, @Rays 1 — Jarred Cosart worked eight scoreless innings for the second time in 25 career starts, both when battling David Price. The 3rd inning was Price’s season, in a nutshell: Three Ks, and a 2-run homer — George Springer’s 13th, Price’s 16th.

• It’s only June, but Price just set a club record with his 7th game of 10+ Ks this year.
• Rays have scored 2 runs or less in nine of Price’s 16 starts this year. They’ve lost 14 games allowing 3 runs or less, the most in either league.

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J.J. Hardy, a five-time 20-HR man, is up to 261 PAs without a home run this year.

• Out of 364 players with at least four 20-HR seasons, Kirby Puckett’s rookie year was the only one without a home run in at least 250 PAs.
• From age 30 onward, these players totaled 1,191 seasons of 540+ PAs, none with less than 6 HRs.
• From age 30-34, they had 905 seasons of 540+ PAs, just eight with less than 10 HRs: Jimmy Rollins, Michael Young, Mike Lowell, Tim Wallach, Don Mattingly, Robin Yount, Toby Harrah and Bobby Murcer. Only Rollins had less than 8 HRs in such a year.

Hardy is 31, and averaged 26 HRs in the past three years. He’ll hit some over the wall, eventually. His fly ball and strikeout rates are about the same as those past three years. More of the flies are staying on the infield, but his line drive rate (and batting average) are at career highs. Those things will even out, in time.

[Of course, I looked up from writing this on Saturday afternoon to see Hardy hit his first home run. So … yeah.]

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“David Ortiz Reprimanded by MLB,” for remarks about official scorers that went far beyond the immediate game. Now, MLB should reprimand itself for acquiescing to Papi’s gripe about the error call in Yu Darvish’s “near no-hitter,” whose story was rewritten by post-hoc fiat. It’s no stretch to think that the unjustified reversal contributed to Ortiz’s even more unseemly whining.

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Thursday

@Cleveland 5, Angels 3 — The outlook wasn’t brilliant: Cleveland trailed by two runs, bags full, but two down, and a one-two count on Nick Swisher, who’s swished in more than half his times at bat that started thus (including three in this game). The Erie band had failed to hit in eight shots with ducks on the pond.

The one thing in their favor stared in at Swisher from a hillock 60 feet away: Ernesto Frieri, the most homer-prone reliever over the last three years. His fastball came in chest high, and very straight….

• Walk-off hit from 2 or more runs down, two outs and two strikes: Last time was April 15, 2007, the Yanks in Oakland. Last one for Cleveland was May 3, 1998, spearing the fledgling Devil Rays. What ties the pitcher from the first game to the hitter of the second?
• The last man with a higher Win Probability Added from a walk-off hit cheering on Swisher from the dugout: Jason Giambi, last Sept. 24, with a pinch-homer in the midst of Cleveland’s season-ending 10-win streak that propelled them to the playoffs.
• What about the ultimate last-ditch game-winner — a grand slam when down by 3 runs, with two outs and two strikes? The only searchable event of this kind goes back to the first year of pitch data: June 21, 1988, Alan Trammell off Cecilio Guante, capping a six-run 9th, mostly against Dave Righetti. (And still they won’t put Trammell in the Hall!) Others with a possible “ultimate slam” (unknown count): Del Crandall off Herm Wehmeier; Ellis Burton off Hal Woodeshick; Carl Taylor (PH) off Ron Herbel; Ron Lolich off Sonny Siebert; and Chris Hoiles off Norm Charlton (1996, but missing the pitch data).
• Albert Pujols had capped the Angels’ two-out rally in the top of the 10th with a 2-strike, 2-run single — the biggest extra-inning WPA event this year for a losing team.

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@Tigers 2, Royals 1 — Thanks, Joe Nathan. We needed that: A three-up, three-fanned closeout, matching his total Ks for the last eight outings (39 batters).

Of all the crazy pitching lines … Anibal Sanchez, who has fanned 17 in a game, struck out none of the 27 Royals he faced, but still gave just 5 hits, a walk, and one run over seven innings. It’s the first of 185 career starts in which Sanchez failed to notch at least one K, and the first SP win since last July 5 with no whiffs in 7+ IP.

J.D. Martinez salvaged Detroit’s lone scoring frame with his 6th home run, forging a lead they (somehow!) never lost. Miguel Cabrera was doubled off scant moments earlier, after he doubled home the tying run. Martinez had the platoon edge on Danny Duffy … or did he? Martinez came in 2 for 29 off southpaws this year, and 27 for 68 off righties (.397), with four of his five prior homers. Career splits are balanced, more power off LHPs, more BA off the normal guys.

• Detroit avoided their first 4-game home sweeping since 2004.

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Brewers 4, @D-backs 1 — First run came in the 5th on two-baggers by Aramis Ramirez and Lyle Overbay, who own almost 800 doubles between them; each has led his league once with 50+ doubles.

• Yovani Gallardo’s yielded 2 runs over his last three games, each 7 IP. First time he’s ever gone three straight of 7+ with one run or less.

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@Pirates 4, Reds 3 (12 inn.) — Pittsburgh shook off another blown save, and took advantage of Tony Cingrani’s wildness to salvage the series finale. After recording the second out of the 12th, with two men on, Cingrani hit Clint Barmes (who also had 4 hits), then walked Russell Martin on five pitches, just as when they met in the 11th. The Pirates have crept back into the wild-card race, at least, by going 18-12, but gained no ground on Milwaukee.

Devin Mesoraco hammered a flat breaking pitch from Jason Grilli to tie it in the 9th. The Buccos lead MLB with seven leads blown in the 9th or later, already three more than they had last year. It’s worth remembering that (a) Grilli is 37 years old, (b) his fine work for Pittsburgh in the past three years was in stark contrast to the rest of his career, and (c) cracks started showing last season, as his ERA went up with each successive month.

Aroldis Chapman sent the game to extras, coming on to fan Andrew McCutchen with two on in the 9th, and staying to punch out the next three. He’s whiffed 37 of 65 batters so far, and two or more in 15 of 17 appearances. First game with inherited runners this year.

• Billy Hamilton opened the game with a double, swiped third, and cruised home on a sac fly. He’s 9-1 pilfering that sack this year, out of his 29 total steals; overall, steals of third account for less than one-seventh of all thefts. Hamilton’s defense in center has been a pleasant surprise, leading all CFs in Total Zone runs; he played strictly infield before last year.
• Tony Watson leads all lefties since last year with a 1.89 ERA and 189 ERA+ (min. 90 IP). He’s held righty batters to a .199 career BA, trailing only Aroldis Chapman and Jake McGee among active southpaws.

Game-winning walks:

• Bucs had one other since 1995: Jose Bautista worked it from Ryan Dempster in 2006, after a one-out, first-and-third IBB to … Chris Duffy?
• Cincy’s last such loss was in 2007, Bronson Arroyo trying for a CG. (I think that’s the last one issued by a starter.)
• Martin’s other winning stroll broke a scoreless tie in 2009, game started by Jake Peavy and Clayton Kershaw, the latter going seven scoreless for the first time.

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Mets 1, @Marlins 0 — Zack Wheeler faced 28 batters in a 3-hit shutout: Not just his first complete game, but the first time in 32 career starts that he even threw a pitch in the 8th inning. Wheeler’s first three runners (two singles and a walk) were erased on double plays, and he came within one strike of being the first Met ever to face the minimum in a CG. Pinch-hitter Reed Johnson fouled off a 1-2 pitch, then hit a sharp grounder through the Tony Gwynn hole, boosting his career .340 average off the Mets. When Rafael Furcal’s rope went straight to CF Chris Young, it meant that David Wright’s 1st-inning sculpture-banger had stood up all night, handing Andrew Heaney a tough loss in his MLB debut.

• Last time a Mets 1st-inning solo was the game’s only run: May 12, 2004, Kaz Matsui off Randy Johnson.
• Wheeler’s 88 Game Score is the best by a Mets route-goer since June 2012, when they had three in the 90s — Johan’s schneid-busting no-no, and R.A. Dickey’s back-to-back one-hitters.
• New York’s last 1-0 CG was in 2010, another Dickey one-hitter — the only knock by Cole Hamels.
• Another trophy for my Kibosh Korner. Dateline, June 14: “Zack Wheeler might benefit from a minor-league tune-up/wake-up call.“
• Heaney, the 9th overall pick in 2012, showed a nice change-up, and let no other Met reach second base in his six frames. He’s arrived with less than 200 innings on the farm, but nothing he did there suggests he’s being rushed, including this year’s 5.3 K/W ratio.

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@Athletics 4, Red Sox 2 — Scott Kazmir’s last 20 starts (since Sept. 2013) include a 2.20 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 9.0 K/9 and a 12-4 record.

• If you saw Jake Peavy’s frustration when he was lifted in the 7th after a full-count walk, note that it’s been 10 starts since his only win this year — the longest drought of his career, by two.

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@Padres 4, Mariners 1 — Back-to back triples meant double trouble for Dominic Leone, starting the surge that led to all four San Diego runs. Since last July, they’ve won 18 straight when scoring exactly 4 — the longest such streak since at least 1914. Next-best since 1960 is 14 games, last done by the ’93 White Sox.

• Jesse Hahn had great stats in the minors — but why did he average less than 4 innings per start?
• Huston Street has saved 20 of San Diego’s 31 wins. He yielded 2 hits tonight, first time all year, but punched up a first-pitch DP from Jesus Montero to end it. He and Joaquin Benoit have combined for 60 IP, 8 runs (1.20 ERA).
• The Pads have cashed all 21 leads after 7 innings. Alas, they’ve trailed twice as often at that point.

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@Yankees 6, Blue Jays 4 — Small-ball Bombers: Two steals apiece by Jacoby Ellsbury and Brian Roberts, each one separate and crucial to a run, as the Yanks scored six singletons in their first seven raps. Toronto scored on 2-run shots by Melky and Edwin, their first 2-HR game in the last nine (and MLB-high 28th this year). But their joyless ride down River Avenue dropped them to 2-7 in that span.

• Toronto’s 16 straight losses in the new Stadium is twice the next-worst skid in that park. Longest for the House that Ruth Built was 20 games by the Senators, 1939-41.
• Last Yankee pair with 2 steals in a game (2011): Brett Gardner and … Francisco Cervelli?
• “[The Yankees] seem likely to surpass the 115 stolen bases they had last year.” (Game story in the N.Y. Times by Jorge Arangure, Jr.) Okay, I’ll take the under … Yes, they’re on pace for 118 steals. But two-thirds have come from Ellsbury and Brett Gardner; they’re ahead of their combined pace of last year, and both are age 30, with some history of injuries.

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Atlanta 3, @Washington 0 — Gavin Floyd gave his team better work than they had hoped for: six scoreless frames against the first-place Nats, and a 2.65 ERA in nine starts as he returned from you-know-who surgery. But there’s no telling when his next start might be, after something in his elbow snapped — though not (thank gott) the ligament.

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Phillies 4, @Cardinals 1 — David Buchanan blanked the Cards into the 8th, in his best game to date. Everyone’s yelling “sell!” at Ruben Amaro, but the Phils have won 8 of 10, and just five games separate that whole division.

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I neglected some geeky aspects of Boston’s Wednesday walk-off:

• First time they’ve ever* won in Fenway via 2 HRs (or more) and 3 hits or less.
• Second BoSox win in Fenway with no more than 3 men reaching safely; the other was in 1915.
• Twins took the second loss in Fenway when yielding 3 hits or less with at least 9.1 IP. The other came in 1974, Sox beating Sparky Lyle in the 11th without a hit, as Roger Moret went the distance. (Who remembers Sudden Sam with the Bombers?)
• Boston had just one man reach safely before Papi’s tying homer in the 10th.

(*I’m stretching the truth a tad here. Fenway opened in 1912, while the game database begins in 1914.)