Jamie Moyer must have felt invincible when it came to facing the Florida Marlins. The 45 year old lefty for the Philadelphia Phillies came into Tuesday’s game against the Marlins an impressive 10-0 in his career against the Marlins. If Florida wanted to get their road trip off on the right foot, they would need to change Moyer’s luck against them.

The Marlins got after Moyer early. In the 2nd inning with the bases loaded, Moyer walked Jeremy Hermida to open the scoring. Later on in the 4th inning, Josh Willingham hit into a fielder’s choice that drove in another run.

Moyer flirted with danger all night, he was able to escape the first four innings of the game with just 2 earned runs and had forced the Marlins to strand 9 men on the bases during that span. Eventually Moyer was pulled and the Marlins beat up on the Phillies bullpen tacking on 6 more runs to win the opening game of their crucial 6 game road trip 8-2.

Josh Johnson out shined Moyer throwing 6 scoreless innings and allowing just 5 hits. Since returning from Tommy John surgery, Johnson has gone 2-0 and the Marlins are 5-0 in games he has started this season. It appears as though the big right hander is back on track and fully recovered from his injuries.

The Marlins have two more games against the Phillies and then head up to Shea Stadium for 3 against the New York Mets. There is no better time than now for the Marlins to assert themselves and take the upper hand in the NL East.