Pudge’s son sharp in hometown start

MIAMI — The spirit of 2003 was back with the Marlins on Thursday.

Pudge Rodriguez, heart and soul of the franchise’s second World Series title that year, was behind the plate again, this time seated in the first row at Marlins Park.

But the karma was directed in the opposite direction, with his son Dereck Rodriguez making his third major-league start for the Giants against his father’s former team.

Rodriguez made his father proud by holding the Marlins to two runs in 62⁄3 innings before leaving with a one-run lead.

Pudge also saw an upstart Marlins team exhibit resiliency for the fourth consecutive game in coming from behind, tying it in the ninth inning.

This time the Marlins couldn’t finish, though, and the Giants scored three runs in the 16th inning to salvage the finale of the four-game series with 6-3 win.

Pablo Sandoval broke the deadlock with a tworun single off Elieser Hernandez, who was in his fifth inning of relief.

The Marlins settled for a solid series win by taking three of four.

“Guys kept fighting and we had some chances; we just weren’t able to get that key hit late,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.

The Marlins had their best chance in the 15th with runners on the corners and one out.

Justin Bour swung at the first pitch and hit into a double play.

The 4-hour, 49-minute struggled was only the Marlins’ second-longest of the season in terms of innings.

They won a 17-inning game at home earlier in the season Cubs.

The Giants threatened in the 11th when Alen Hanson doubled into the right-field corner.

But second baseman Castro threw out Brandon Crawford trying to score on the relay from JB Shuck.

Catcher Bryan Holaday, the Marlins’ back-up catcher, made a play worthy of Pudge when he took the throw, spun and slapped the tag on Crawford’s thigh before he crossed the plate.

“When I caught it I was just trying to lunge and reach with everything I had to see if I could get him. Luckily, I was able to get him on the leg,” Holaday said.

Holaday also extended his club record by throwing out a runner attempting to steal for the ninth consecutive time when he caught Mac Williamson to end the fourth inning.

Dereck Rodriguez, a standout in high school at Chaminade-Madonna in Hollywood and Miami Pace, put on an impressive hometown performance before a Camp Day matinee crowd of 9,726. But his efforts were overshadowed by the events that followed.

“No nerves, it was just any other game,” Rodriguez said. “It’s a big field. It was a fun day out there; a little humid, but it was fun playing back here in Miami.”

Ty Blach tossed 62⁄3 innings in relief to earn the win for San Francisco.

Another first-year player from South Florida, center fielder Lewis Brinson from Coral Springs, drove in the tying run in the ninth inning as the Marlins completed a comeback from a 3-0 deficit.

It was the eighth time the Marlins erased a deficit in the series. against the