every other at bat in that godawful building is tied for second

Thought this was gonna be about food

Any chance that it was an intentional walk?

I did a little Googling to see if there was any possibility, and I found this post on Reddit or something:

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It is not uncommon for pitchers to walk each other in order to accomplish one of two things: (1) put them on and give them running opportunity, which will wear them out and mess up their pitching for the next inning and mess with the lineup, or (2) literally not even worry about it because there's a lot of other good reasons to walk a player. Not that either of these are immediately apparent in this clip of the ninth inning, but it's entirely possible that Ceda gave no shits about facing Casilla and just worked on a couple pitches he was trying to get right or figuring out how his breaking ball didn't break as much that day as previous days. Who knows?

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And on a baseball reference site, they had this to say:

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Intentional walks are normally issued for two reasons: to bypass a good hitter for a weaker one or one who does not have the platoon advantage; and/or to set up a double play. The usefulness of intentional walks for either reason is a matter of considerable debate, and different managers have taken very different attitudes toward the intentional walk. Walter Alston even changed his approach in mid-career, moving from issuing 101 (the 8th most ever) in 1967 to just 9 (the fewest ever) in 1974.

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Ceda is clearly good enough of a pitcher that missing the strike zone four times in a row is more likely to be deliberate than not.

I'm annoyed that I now have to sift through all the SBB stuff to find Jon Bois, but I'm happy that he's still putting great stuff out.

I'm guessing most of the paying crowd figured the Marlins were going to lose anyway and had left the stadium by the 7th inning stretch.