MIAMI -- If the Marlins’ 12-inning 9-8 comeback victory over the Phillies on Wednesday night is any indication of what’s to come down the stretch, Miami’s revamped lineup will give the club a fighting chance.

Jesús Sánchez came through as the walk-off hero with an RBI bloop single to left while Trade Deadline acquisitions Josh Bell and Jake Burger made immediate impacts for their new club. Bell finished 4-for-5 with a walk, a homer and two RBIs to become the first in-season addition to collect four hits in his Marlins debut, while Burger went 2-for-4 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch.

Miami (58-51), which is tied with Milwaukee for the third National League Wild Card spot, will go for the four-game series split against Philadelphia (58-50) in Thursday’s matinee. 

“Definitely pleased with the at-bats,” said Bell, who had a 96 OPS+ in 97 games for Cleveland this season. “Some balls went my way. Like I said, maybe the changing threads, changing scenery -- balls are starting to fall in for me. The atmosphere in the clubhouse right now, especially after the last two games, we needed this one, and we need to come out tomorrow [and] get the 'W' as well.”

The Marlins, who trailed 5-0 in the sixth, 5-4 in the ninth, 7-5 in the 10th and 8-7 in the 11th, won a game after trailing by five-plus runs for the first time since Aug. 23, 2019, also against Philadelphia. They also became just the second team in the past 50 seasons to score in the eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th innings of a game, joining the Padres (May 29, 2021).

In the eighth, Bell (leadoff single) and Burger (walk) were part of the rally that culminated in a bases-loaded walk and an RBI groundout.

In the ninth, Jorge Soler blasted the game-tying shot off Gregory Soto -- the third homer of the night for the Marlins, who entered with the third fewest long balls in the Majors.

In the 10th, Jon Berti produced the game-tying sacrifice fly off Craig Kimbrel after Sánchez doubled and Burger singled with one out. Avisaíl García had driven in Jazz Chisholm Jr., the automatic runner, to make it a one-run ballgame.

In the 11th, Bell knocked the game-tying RBI single off Dylan Covey with two outs on a two-strike pitch.

“That's what I saw in Chicago a month and a half ago, when they kept fighting back and fighting back,” said Burger, whose White Sox dropped two of three to the Marlins on the South Side in June. “I actually had that thought out on the field today. I'm like, ‘Hey, this is what this culture is here.’ We're never out of it. [It] doesn't matter what the score is. We're just going to keep battling.”

It didn’t look promising early on, as Phillies starter Zack Wheeler kept the Marlins off the board for five innings. That is, until Bell and Chisholm went deep to right field on consecutive pitches in the sixth to liven up the crowd at loanDepot park. 

The Marlins had been the only Major League club that had not gone back to back all season. It also marked the first time Miami had homered on consecutive pitches since Jacob Stallings and Peyton Burdick did so in the fifth inning on Aug. 7, 2022. Bell became the 19th player to homer in his Marlins debut, and the first following a trade since Joe Panik (June 30, 2021).

With the additions of Bell and Burger, as well as the returns of Chisholm and García during the homestand, Miami’s starting lineup had a nice balance of three lefties, five righties and one switch-hitter (Bell) on Wednesday. 

That quartet, along with All-Star Soler, give the Marlins much-needed slugging options. Miami now has six players with double-digit homers this season: Soler (26), Burger (25), Bryan De La Cruz (14), Bell (12), Chisholm (10) and Sánchez. García, who has missed substantial time each of the past two seasons, is the owner of 138 career long balls.

Homers typically correlate into wins, but the Marlins have been the exception to the rule as the only club with a winning record despite averaging fewer than one homer a game. They’re also the only team with a winning record and a run differential of -24 or worse. Perhaps those numbers change in the coming months.

“We talked about not having much slug in the lineup, and [general manager Kim Ng] and her group acquired the slug,” manager Skip Schumaker said. “Bell sparks it, Jazz, [it’s] nice to have him off the IL. He just takes good at-bats, dangerous at-bats, good defense, good baserunning. We know who Jazz is, and to have that now in the middle of the lineup with Bell and Burger and Jazz, that's much danger.”