Ups and Downs

While the big-league team collapsed, the kids vie for the championship. And Dobbs is relieved, but Hanley's feeling worse.

Capuano and Volstad start tonight.

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Game 3 Of 5

Marlins try to avoid losing the series. Mets have won 4 games in a row. Pelfrey and Vazquez on the mound.

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Doable Double

Now that the Hopper has caught up on his movie-watching, it finally looks like a pretty day weather=wise for today's double-header. The Marlins have won 2 of their last 3 and have won 6 straight at Citi Field. First game has Anibal against Dickey; second game Ricky and Gee will pitch.

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Waiting Day

Today's game was pre-postponed. So here's today's games in other parts of the continent...

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Double Down

And Irene said, "You planning on playing TODAY?? We'll see about that!", and the double-header is moved to Sept. 15. Wonder when Mondays' double-header will be moved to?

And somewhere else, games go on...

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Half the Doubled Doubling

And now tomorrow's double-header is now a single-header, the originally scheduled night game rescheduled to when the next hurricane will hit. Somewhere in Canada Dewayne is giggling. And maybe tonight's game won't be a blowout.

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Double the Doubling

The Fish are now scheduled to play a double-header on Saturday to avoid the destructive fury of Irene as it hits New York on Sunday, where the Marlins are supposed to play another double-header with the Mets on Monday. (Triple-header, anybody?)

Meanwhile here's tonight's games...

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Double the Desparation

Logan returns to play two in today's hurricane double-header (Dewayne gets DFA'd). Vazquez and Volstad face Bailey and Arroyo.

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Back Home (Shudder)

D-Train returns as the Reds arrive to win a few games. Aftre 4 innings tonight it's 2-0 Reds.

UPDATE: Yay, Marlins take a 3-2 lead in the 5th.
UPDATE: Yuck. Leo lets the Marlins lose 8-6.

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Quandry

While the Marlins take some time off to figure out a way to start the rest of this season's games in the second inning, games are being played tonight...

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Getting Worserer

The question is becoming, not whether the Marlins can get out of their collapse, but whether they can avoid 100 losses this season. Anibal against Cory Luebke today.

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Oh Boy - Another Game Against The Padres

San Diego can slip ahead of the Fish in the Wild Card standings with a win tonight. Here's a slight bit of optimism - the Marlins are 6-3 this year in Saturday away games (although they lost their last one in Atlanta). More good news - Omar Infante's been activated (bye bye Ozzie). It's Hensley and Harang on the hill.

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Getting Worser?

The Marlins with 37 games left in the season are 10 games under .500, and even Trader Jack now has a losing record. With Stanton suffering from toe-main, the Fish are putting out tonight what some are calling the worst lineup in baseball. Volstad and LeBlanc are the pitchers.

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Former Fish Follies

Mike Jacobs gets tested, and booted.

One of Cameron Maybin's idols growing up plays for the Marlins now.

Craig Counsell garners a dubious record.

A friend of David Pinto's finds El Pulpo.

Got a Post Done Before Game Time

The Fish start a 4-gamer tonight, their last 4-gamer of the year now that the upcoming Mets series at the Citi will now be a 5-gamer. It's the Marlins' last West Coast series, and last series against a NL West team, this year. Luckily, enviroment-wise, they get to do it in San Diego. But oh-oh, the Marlins have lost 9 of their last 12 against the Padres. Florida has lost 11 of their last 13, but won 13 of their last 18 road games.

Tim Stauffer and Javier Vazquez deliver.

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Game's On

The Marlins' last game in Denver this year is going on as I write this. Nolasco and Cook are hurling tonight.

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Matt (alias:Wes) Helms' New Assignment

"Super-Secret Double-Agent Mole" Wes Helms is now infiltrating the Braves organization.

Fish Lead in 7th of Game 2 in Denver

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G2K

It's the 2000th game of Jack's managing career tonight. Florida leads 2-1 after 2.5 innings.

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LoMo To Go To NO

Morrison gets demoted to the Zephyrs under suspicious but not entirely surprising circumstances (which now Beinfest confirms), and Twitter is barking loudly. And the Fish are also now Wes-less. Jose and Ozzie are the replacements.

2:10 PM: To perhaps accent the decision-making folly of the front office, Cody has already hit a 2-run homer for the Giants in today's game. In the middle of the 4th it's 3-1 Giants.

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Yawn

The boring Marlins try to get another win against the Giants tonight. Javier Vazquez and some guy named Lincecum will be pitching. After the game two guys I have never heard of will be yelling into microphones.

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Giants Arrive, War Of the Jinxes Possible?

Ever since the Giants series in S.F. the Marlins have been aimed straight towards the bottom of the standings. Combined with that is the Horror of playing in Sun Life Masoleum, where the last time the Marlins won a game the stock market was still a viable investment and Jerry Lewis was still on the Telethon. Maybe the Giants' series being played at the house Robbie built starting tonight may cause a cosmic collision of calamities that would cancel each of these black clouds out. Just seeing Cody again would be a sky-brightener.

Tonight Rick and Matt sling the orbs.

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No Loss Tonight

First, last night's scores...

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Then tonight's day-off scores...

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Braves Game 2 at Sun Life Dungeon

Uggla goes for 30 in a row tonight. Beachy pitches near the beach.

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Lowe, Hand Start Tonight

The Braves return, and tonight the Fish have no Hanley and no LoMo. Derek and Brad are tossing.

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Sweep-less Sunday

Hanley's still not in the line-up today to help the Marlins stop the sweep. Although this guy thinks they may still do it. Besides, it's Gaby's mom's birthday so there's some extra incentive.

Javy and Jaime take the mound. According to this article, "Garcia is 5-1 with a 1.54 ERA in 11 starts against NL East teams...(while)...Vazquez...is 4-2 with a 2.13 ERA in his last eight starts."

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This Date in History

It's interesting to note that on the exact same spot where the new 38,000-seat Marlins ballpark is being hurried to completion, a baseball game was played 55 years ago that was viewed by a crowd so large that the new stadium probably would not have been able to contain it.

Super Saturday With the Cards

Hanley's not in the line-up tonight, but Alfredo is. Nolasco and Carpenter propel the spheres.

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Welcome Home Alfredo!

Amezaga returns tonight!

Friday's Game

With Infante out, Hanley thinks maybe he could come back tonight. It's Anibal against Westbrook tonight.

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A Couple of News Bits

The city of Miami is having trouble finding tenants for the retail and restaurant spaces in the new stadium's garages.

And Ozzie would be honored to manage the Marlins.

Saint Louis in the House

First, congrats to the GCL Marlins, who at this point have the highest winning percentage in pro baseball.

The Yadi-less Cardinals start a four-gamer tonight in Miami Gardens, where the rain has let up for now. Fearless prediction: There will be fewer spectators for tonight's game than for last night's exhibition 'futbol' match at the same venue.

Starting will be Kyle and Clay.

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Rainout Edition

The Fish and Mets rain out tonight. Time for make-up day bingo. This guy thinks they'll probably play a 5-game series at the end of the month. My choice would be September 8, a travel day for both teams coming from Miami where they will just finish a 3-game series here (on the 9th the Mets stay at home to play the Cubs while the Fish travel just down the street to Pittsburgh).

Not to mention the Marlins now have to come back to start a home series against the Cards with the threat of a tropical storm this weekend. (Damn, I mentioned it.)

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Marlins-Mets Game 2

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Fish and Mets Fight

7:29PM: After 2 innings Fla. leads 1-0.
7:59PM: 2-0 after 2.5.
8:23PM: 3-0 after 3-and-a-half.
8:55PM: After 5 innings it's 3-1.
9:58PM: Duda owns Leo, hits a 2-run homer in 9th to tie game.
10:15PM: Stanton grand-slams it; Fish lead 7-3 in the 10th.
10:26PM: And that's the final score.

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Beat the Sweep Mode

The Braves traded for Michael Bourn. LoMo's not in today's line-up. Ricky Nolasco and Tommy Hanson pitch.

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Middle Game With Braves

The Fish must fight off a resurgent Uggla. Anibal and Tim Hudson start.

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Fish Lose In Atlanta 5-0

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Fish Sweep Nats, Climb Beyond Cellar

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Another Nats Night

The battle from the basement continues. Livan and Javy tonight.

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Marlins Pulverize Washington 11-2

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Fish-less Games

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Battle For Series Win Today

As Van Horne becomes a Hall of Famer, the Fish break their losing streak and face the Mets this afternoon. Dillon Gee makes his first start against the Marlins, who'll start Anibal.

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Marlins Win on Super Saturday 8-5

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100-Game Stat Look

(FIXED SOME THINGS) Now that the 100-game mark has passed, I'm looking at Baseball Reference 2011 NL stats to see in which categories the Fish stand out.

According to them, the Marlins are middle-of-the-pack in many of their team pitching and batting stats. Here are some of the Marlins team stats that are closer to being either best or worst - the Marlins are...

...5th worst in the NL in team batting average (.245; the Padres are last at .233, the Cards are first at .268)

...4th in stealing the fewest bases (57; Cubs have fewest with 35, most is San Diego with 106).

...5th highest in striking out (745; worst are the Padres with 835, best are Cards with 602)

...4th in the league in both sacrifice bunts and sacrifice flies (San Diego is last in sacrfice bunts but 3rd in th NL in sacrifice flies)

...next to last in the league in pitches hitting batters (23; the Rockies are last with 22).

...5th in the league in walks allowed (the Cubs are 37 walks ahead of the #2 team).

...tops in the NL in walking batters intentionally (43; the Brewers are last with 12).

...3rd-least in the league in being walked intentionally (18; worst is Cubs with 13, most is Dodgers with 38).

...5th in the league in runs allowed (440, tied with Arizona, and 62 behind the leader the Cubs).

...tied for next to last with Houston in wild pitches thrown (22; the Phils are last at 12, the Brewers are first with 43).

...2nd in batters faced (3831; Cubs first with 3915, Phils last at 3668).

...6th in striking batters out (751; Giants are first at 828, Pirates last at 589)

...2nd in the NL in balks (7; Reds are first with 10, Cards last with 0).

...5th worst in walking batters per 9 innings (3.3; Cubs worst with 3.9, Phils best with 2.5)

Mets, Marlins Start 3-Gamer Tonight

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Pads Win 5-3, Sweeping the Fish

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UGH-LIER! Fish Lose to Padres 14-3

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UGH! Fish Lose to Padres 4-0

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Marlins Beat Mets 4-1, Win 1-Game Series

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Sunday Finale in Chicago

The Hawk and Hatcher have one more day to bask a bit, as the Marlins not only go for this series win, but also to take the lead all-time against the Cubs and at Wrigley Field. It's Chris Volstad and Randy Wells on the mound today.

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MORE!: Fish win 7-5.

Game Three in Wrigley

Andre be singing, Gaby be batting 5th, Vazquez and Zambrano be starting.

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WOW: Javy K's 10, Mike hits 2 as the Fish win 13-3.

Damn! Fish Lose 2-1 (Back to Previews)

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Cubs Collapse in 9th: Marlins Win 6-3

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Fish Stuff

Jack should be on the CBS Evening News tonight.

The Marlins' TV ratings are down.

And the Fish are closing the upper deck to make the few paying fans look less few.

D-Train returns to the majors.

There's rumors about whether the Marlins will trade Ricky/Anibal or not.

Who's spurring the recent surge? Is it Hanley? Or Emilio? Or The pitching?

Jhan pitched in the Futures game.

And tonight Gaby and his family will be at the All-Star game.

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Marlins Beat Astros 5-4...4-Game Sweep!

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Buck Homers, Ricky Completes Game; Astros Lose to Marlins 6-1

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Marlins Beat Astros 6-3

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Stanton Homers Again; Fish Win Again, Beat Houston 5-0

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Stanton Homers in Tenth: Marlins Win 7-6

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Marlins Making Moves

Joe Capozzi tweets that the Marlins got "Mike Cameron & cash from Red Sox in exchange for PTBNL or cash". (Cameron's hitting .149 so far this year).

In more trade news the Fish acquire Cesar Valdez from the Pirates for another PTBNL or cash.

Tonight it's sore-handed Hamels vs. Chris Volstad.

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Happy Independance Day

It's an early 6:10 start for the Fish and the Phils on the Fourth. There'll be fireworks, flags, posters and the armed services. The Marlins have won 4 of their last five, and won their last 2 series, but they're 7-21 in their last 28 games against the Phillies. Ricky Nolasco and Vance Worley will be tossing the pill.

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Series Finale in Texas

Gaby's going to the All-Star Game, but tonight the Fish fight for the series win. Javier Vazquez and C.J. Wilson start.

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Reboot

I can think of one team that more than likely wanted to stay in the SanFran Bay area and just keep winning series. But to Arlington the Marlins had to go, and suffer last night's thrashing. Now Joser Lopez is gone, and Bryan Petersen takes his place. Brad Hand returns to start tonight; Texas starts Derek Holland.

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Rangers Smash Fish 15-5

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Series Win?

The Fish have won just the middle game of their last three series. Time to close the deal. Chris Volstad and Trevor Cahill start this afternoon.

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Good News!

Josh is structurally sound, says the Good Doctor, and Johnson escapes with just a cortisone shot and a prescription for more rest.

Ricky needs a shot of something tonight, as he starts while Guillermo Moscoso pitches for the A's.

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Back Where it Began

The Fish return to the Bay area tonight, scene of the Marlins' last series win, scene of the Cousins-Posey collision, the point from where it all went downhill. They're on the other side of the Bay this time, in Oakland, where U2's vendetta against the Marlins continues. While Dr. Andrews sharpens his scalpels in anticipation of Josh's visit, tonight Javier starts against Gio Gonzalez.

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Monday's Scoreboards

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Pacific Rubber Match

The Marlins play tonight in the latest-starting Sunday game ever played in Safeco Field, their home park. Jack has LoMo sitting till Tuesday and Hanley permanently batting fourth. Anibal Sanchez and Doug Fister go for the series win.

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Game 2 in Seattle

The Marlins must've felt like home at Safeco. They also have made baseball history again, unfortunately.

Jason Vargas finally faces his former team tonight, while Chris Volstad attempts another start.

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Step Aside, Pretenders!

To prove once and for all that the Marlins are truly America's team,...after tonight no other ballclub will have played its home games from one end of the country (Puerto Rico), through its middle (US Celluar in Chicago in 2004), and all the way to the other end (well, maybe Hawaii and the Aleutians had other engagements, and besides, who knows what day it is in American Samoa - but at least they made it out to Seattle).

Late games means later posts. Craig wonders if Billy and the Mermaids made the trip. If they did they're flying back tonight to be at Metro Ford in Miami with Jeff Conine tomorrow afternoon. Unless their evil twins are somwhow in the mix (or maybe there will be a rare appearance by Billy's little-known second cousin Smelly the Salmon). Ricky Nolasco and Felix Hernandez fling tonight. Jose Lopez is back.

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Something in the Air

You thought Edwin resigning and McKeon returning was strange? How about this? - Nationals manager Jim Riggleman quit today, just after his team finished winning 11 of their last 12 games. Time to put on that tinfoil hat.

Tonight the Fish are settling into their new home, while elsewhere in the world baseball will probably be played...

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Game 3 With Angels

Today's news has blather over whether the Marlins should or shouldn't trade Hanley, and about the goofy things Jack says/does.

It's the last game of the nightmarish-21-straight-game stretch. After last night's win, the Fish amazingly could win a series tonight. Brian Sanches and the entire bullpen goes against Joel Pineiro this evening.

By the way, good tickets remain for this weekend's Marlins home series in Seattle - if you're in the area, get a taste of 2012 by seeing a Fish home game under a retractable roof.

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Handling Hanley

LoMo reportedly gets into Hanley's face for missing a meeting that everyone else attended. Jack says that's not why Hanley was benched yesterday.

McKeon, who is just three degress of seperation from the beginnings of the National League, has been attracting news reports pointing out how 'experienced' he actually is. After surprisingly setting Hanley down last night, Jack surprisingly has Hanley hitting cleanup tonight for the first time in his career. Mike Stanton returns and is hitting sixth.

Fish had another one-run loss last night. That's two one-run losses in a row, which the way things are going is almost encouraging. The Marlins are headed for a club record in losses-in-a-row if a turnaround doesn't happen tonight. Javier Vazquez and Ervin Santana pitch.

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Back Home with LA of Anaheim

At least yesterday's game brought the Marlins back to losing by only one run, which they had done only once since June 11.

Knowing that Jack goes to Mass every morning it seems appropriate that the Angels will be in town to start his 2nd tour of duty as Fish leader. Much hay is made over McKeon benching Hanley tonight. Brad Hand was sent down, too. Anibal Sanchez and the Angels' Jered Weaver start.

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Trader Jack is Back

Edwin felt Hyde should've had a shot at managing, but all indications say Mr. Take-No-Crap Jack McKeon will be introduced as the Marlins' new skipper.

Adios Edwin

Rodriguez spares all of us the indignity of being sacked by management and resigned Sunday morning. Brandon Hyde will manage the team today. Trader Jack and Bobby V are being considered.

On the field it's Volstad and Shields.

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WooOOooOOoo

It seems a muted congratulations are in order. The Marlins have joined the ranks of many of the storied fabled MLB franchises of history like the Cubs and Red Sox, as they now apparently have their own curse.

Some commentators have been seeing the Marlins' dive in fortunes as metaphysical payback for Scott Cousins slamming into Buster Posey, as if the results of that collision were somehow nefariously planned out in advance.

They point out the Fish are now 3-20 since that Giants series, while SanFran is still in first in the NL West without Posey or Freddy Sanchez - true enough.

Personally, though, I think it was those In-N-Out burgers - it takes a great while to get the effects of those babies out of the system.

The curse idea may have some merit, though. Practicioners of the many esoteric religions that we have here in South Florida should be retained to help rid the ballclub of whatever boogeyman is hovering over them, be it Buster or burger.

The Fish, 6 games under .500, continue to soldier on. Tonight Ricky Nolasco and Alex Cobb do battle.

Before that, though, the Rays' wives play the Marlins' wives in a 5-inning softball game. Let's hope the Fish can pick up a few pointers, or players.

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Gasping Sealife

It's the stoppable force meeting the movable object tonight at Le Dome Du Tropicana as the Marlins take on the former Devil Rays.

Tampa Bay has a losing record at home, and lost their last series at Boston. Brad Hand and Wade Davis attempt to pitch tonight.

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Adios Chris

The Marlins have sent former ROY Coghlan to AAA and called up "career .222 hitter" Dewayne Wise.

Michael Jong shows how Cogz collapsed compared to McCutchen.

Fish Fight the Sweep

While Edwin stays stoic the Marlins try to eke out a win at Philly, which may be tough with Javy and Cliff on the mound.

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Double-Header Today

First game Elih Villanueva makes his debut vs. Kyle Kendrick. Second game Anibal Sanchez vs. Roy Halladay.

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MO-MOVES: After the first game drubbing and a long wait at the clubhouse door, the news is: Brad Davis was DFA'd to allow Jose Lopez to start tonight, Elih is sent to NO, and Mujica's day-to-day.

Fish in Philly for Four

MOVE-NEWS: Hanley's back, but Scott is down. Leo returned. Villanueva will be called up for double-header duty tomorrow, which May mean that Josh won't be back until after the All-Star break. And Jeffrey hates freedom of speech.

Chris Volstad and Cole Hamels pitch. Hamels is looking good lately. The money boys say stay with the streaks.

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Try to Tie

Now that the Marlins season is almost over (as some seem to think) we can sit back and just enjoy the games for their athletic excellence, or their enormous quantity of spitting, or whatever floats your boat.

Sure, there's been 'epic' amounts of frustration these last couple of weeks, but there's also at least one story of achievement amongst the mess.

Tonight the Fish strive to split the series before they split for Philly. Nolasco and Duke start.

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Hooray! No Sweep!

At least I didn't struggle with yesterday's post. Last night's game was frankly ludicrous.

Since the Snakes and Fish have gone back and forth for the last dozen games, today should be a day to go forth. Brad Hand will put down the Xbox long enough to start for the Marlins, and Daniel Hudson starts for Arizona.

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Saturday

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Friday With The Snakes

It seems nobody on the team has been fired today, so let's concentrate on tonight's game. The next team chomping at the bit to face the Marlins are the Diamondbacks. Anibal Sanchez and Joe Saunders will do the honors this evening.

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Good Grief, Stop the Sweep

Suspicions probably confirmed - that Jeffrey hissself fired beloved hitting coach John Mallee and replaced him with never-coached-before-ESPN-analyst-son-of-Tony Eduardo Perez.

For tonight's game, Chris Volstad and Jair Jurrjens will be the starters.

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Okay, Let's Try This Again

So, let's see, yesterday the Fish' pitchers give up only 2 hits and 1 walk, ...and they still lose.

Brad Hand was marvelous in garnering the distinction of being only the 2nd pitcher in the live-ball era to go at least 6 innings in his MLB debut and lose while giving up only 1 hit.

Maybe today the team will fling off the Funk. Ricky Nolasco and Derek Lowe start tonight. Stanton sits, and Dobbs hits third.

TRIVIA: Now that the Mavs beat the Heat last night, Miami-Dade County is assured to achieve an honor no other county in the US can claim.

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Braves For Three

First a couple FRONT-OFFICE-FARCES: Now that Mr. "Un-Called-For" Sabean has talked with Scott Cousins, and Mr. "Be-Careful-What-You-Say" Samson opens up his mouth again, it's time once again to concentrate on the games.

Facing the down-in-the-dumps Marlins, the lackluster Braves begin a roadtrip here in dried-out SoFla - Fredi and Danny return. Tonight Brad Hand makes his MLB debut vs. Tommy Hanson.

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Drain the Brewers

Hanley's finally officially on the DL, and Brad Hand pitches tomorrow. Now that that's been decided, tonight the Marlins' attentions are aimed to stop a Milwaukee sweep. The recently improved Javy Vazquez and the recently improved Zack Greinke will pitch.

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Sunday Collapse Correcting

The Marlins have lost 6 of their last 8 games. Luckily the Phillies have lost their last 4 in a row, so the Marlins are still only 2 games in back of them. Time to turn things around with our current top pitcher. Anibal Sanchez and Chris Narveson start.

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Saturday in the Park

I forgot that last night was the first Bark in the Park this year in Miami Gardens. At least one local writer does not like canines in the crowd. With last night's loss the Fish so far this year are now 2-1 when the dogs are allowed in.

Tonight a Beatles tribute band plays Super Saturday. Pitching tonight will be Chris Volstad and Yovani Gallardo.

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First Of Four With Brewers

Ricky against Randy tonight.

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Getting Rested

The Fish need their rest today as they start a 3-week stretch of 21 games tomorrow. Here's today's scores, though...

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Rubber Game In Progress

After 4 innings Javier and the Marlins lead the Snakes 4-0.

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Series-Splitting Hopes

It's Anibal vs. Ian Kennedy in the Marlins' attempt tonight to break out of their insta-collapse.

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Desert Trip

With Hanley a question mark the Phish are in Phoenix phor three. Tonight the on-fire Snakes start Joe Saunders, and the Marlins start Chris Volstad.

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Hot Fish Aim For Series Win

The Fish were so hot last night that the building almost burned down.

The gang members left in the stands will witness today the battle between Clayton Kershaw and Ricky Nolasco. Loney won't be starting.

AND: John Baker weighs in on the Buster Posey situation.

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