Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The View From the Top

The Marlins are alone in first place in the NL East for the first time in almost 2 years. And today, with a stadium overrun with trucked-in children on CBS4 Weather Day (and a hot one it is, too), the Fish will try to sweep the Dodgers out of town. Anibal will try to improve on his last outing, with Billingsley pitching for L.A.

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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Day-After-Day-Off News

First, for those keeping score, here were the scores from yesterday...

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Samson wants more than just money if you want your company's name on the new stadium. In other stadium news, the site's steel workers are now back on the unemployment line, the (hopefully hurricane-proof) canopy has arrived to be stretched over the roof, close to a third of the seats are already installed, and a year-round restaurant with a "sports theme" (surprise!) is being searched for - all to get ready for the building's first event, which will probably be a college baseball game.

The stadium's upcoming completion leaves Mike Stanton just this season to break Gallaraga's JoeRobbie-ProPlayer-Dolphin-LandShark-Dolphins-SunLife homer record. Mike's slow start, though, has him hitting sixth tonight.

Juan C. Rodriguez had a chat session today.

The Pirates, who are having their best season-beginning road record since 2002, have come to town. Paul Maholm start for the Bucs. Josh Johnson, who has another career ready when he leaves baseball, starts tonight for the Fish.

This game ain't on TV, so get the Herald's Two-For-Tuesday coupon and go.

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Sun-day

A sunny, breezy day is expected in Philly. The go-away game will feature last night's duo, Cole and Anibal.

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OOF: Phils win - Marlins go 5-3 on road trip.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Saturday Showerday?

If there's a game today, the starters would be Cole Hamels and Anibal Sanchez.

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RAIN-OUT: The Fish and Phils will make up today's washed-out game in a split-doubleheader on June 15, which will be the 13th game in a now-21-game stretch unbroken by a day off, the longest such stretch for the Marlins this year. (Philadelphia has a day off scheduled on June 13.)

Friday, April 15, 2011

Chilly in Philly

Craig reports on the shift of three Marlins games to another spot on the Miami radio dial. Since this move is because of the Heat's first-round playoff games, and since these first three moves only cover Games 1 through 4 of the first round of the playoffs, and since the Heat have a good chance to go all the way to the championship round, expect a lot more schedule shifting of Marlins radio games in Miami. I wondered last November, when the Heat moved to the Marlins flagship station, whether the Fish would be awarded the short end of the stick, so to speak. I guess we won't find out until the Marlins make the playoffs and start to interfere with Heat regular-season games.

The Marlins take their 4-2 road record to Philadelphia tonight on Jackie Robinson Day in the majors.

The weather's not looking good for tomorrow's game, and tonight should be the first really cold evening the Marlins have played in this year.

It's Javier against Roy Oswalt tonight.

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Game Two In Atlanta

The Maniac gives his collection of interesting 'Fish Bites' found this past week. To those I would suggest a new Marlins blog, called "Fish Fry". And also, for an inside look at one of the most fake baseball minds ever, check out the Twitter rumblings of FakeSamson.

Considering how sparse and spread out last night's hits were, Edwin has decided to fiddle with tonight's lineup. The AJC's David O'Brian noticed how small and sparse (and 'Marlins'-like) last night's crowd was, and how Chipper's on the verge of a milestone.

Tonight Josh Johnson and Tim Hudson pitch.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Marching Through Georgia

Probably less historic than tonight's 150th anniversary of the start of the War Between The States would be the 3-game series the Marlins begin this evening in Atlanta.

This year the Fish arrive at Turner Field much earlier than last season (the 2010 Marlins didn't play their first game in Atlanta until July 2). Concerning first games at Turner, the Marlins lost last year after winning there three years in a row. The Braves are off to a somewhat slow start, which shouldn't bother them at all.

Fredi, Danny and Omar get to re-mesh with their old teammates. Chris Volstad and Tommy Hanson start. Hanley's back in the line-up tonight.

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Monday, April 11, 2011

Friday, April 08, 2011

On The Road, On The Web

Edwin's website/blog has been discovered! (This link should lead to the Google English translation.)

The Fish play their first road game of the year tonight in Houston. The Marlins are 5-13 in first road games through their history, although they have won 3 of their last 4. They lost in 2006, the only other year that they had their first road game in Houston.

It's Ricky against Wandy at Orange Juice Stadium.

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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Second Series Start

The Fish spent their first of this season's 19 scheduled days off yesterday trying to forget what happened on Sunday (click here if you want to remember.)

Confident Anibal will be matched by confident Jason as the Marlins start a series against the Nats tonight in Miami Gardens.

Fox Sports Florida is only showing the game live in South Florida. Stanton's still out of the lineup, but Donnie's back.

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Saturday, April 02, 2011

Game Two

Zounds! As we all ponder Mr. Stanton's recent predicament, the Florida Marlins will soldier on, challenging the Metropolitans to a contest tonight under the blazing lights of the field of Sun Life.

Mr. Niece and Mr. Nolasco are to fling. A Mr. Pitbull will perform his entertainments afterwards, apparently attempting to bedazzle the throng.

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Friday, April 01, 2011

Game Number One

It's the start of the last season of the Florida Marlins. Projected starters are Josh Johnson and Mike Pelfry. Projected give-away is a schedule magnet. Projected guests will be Mike Lowell and Clarence Clemons. Fireworks will be projected afterwards.

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