"Mike Stanton said he typically sleeps in until noon or later. So does Hanley Ramirez.
Given the events in a loss to the Cubs the day before — one compounded by their individual gaffes — neither minded when their hotel alarms rang at 8?a.m. Saturday for their noon start at Wrigley Field.
They rose and they shined in a 13-3 thumping of the Cubs.
Stanton belted two home runs and Ramirez cranked out three doubles as the Marlins made up for Friday's 2-1 loss with a laugher over the Cubs.
"The loss [Friday] was the type of loss we had all throughout June," Stanton said. "We'd let it soak into us and took it to the next game. [On Saturday], we just bounced back the way we should have."
Said manager Jack McKeon: "It was a nice win after [Friday's] sad performance. We should have won that one, too."
Stanton's failure to catch a routine fly led to both Cubs runs in a 2-1 defeat, and Ramirez was thrown out at second in the ninth inning when he tried to stretch his hit into a double.
On Saturday, the Marlins punished Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano with their first double-digit scoring output of the season. Stanton's 19th and 20th home runs were opposite-field shots off Zambrano, and Ramirez scorched each of his three doubles.
Every member of Florida's starting lineup except for Bryan Petersen had at least one hit. And Petersen drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.
Not to be outdone by the Marlins' bats, starting pitcher Javier Vazquez turned in yet another gem as he held the Cubs to three runs over seven innings.
Vazquez's 10 strikeouts were his most since a 12-strikeout performance during the 2009 season when he was with the Braves. The only reason he was scored upon at all was because the Cubs produced two cheap hits with two outs in the sixth before Aramis Ramirez hit a three-run homer.
"I've been feeling much better these past five or six starts and throwing the ball well," said Vazquez, who has lowered his ERA nearly two full runs over his past six outings, during which he has given up only seven earned runs over 37?1/3 innings."