Home ballpark hasn’t been very friendly so far this season

“This place makes you pay,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.

Luck and offensive production were not on the Marlins’ side during their first homestand. There was a lot of hard contact (more than onethird of their balls in play had an exit velocity of 95 mph or greater) and a steady rate of balls going in play (just a 22.3 percent strikeout rate, tied for the 10th best in the league). The results just didn’t come.