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Marlins strive to extend scoreless-innings streak vs. Mets
The Miami Marlins have the worst record in the major leagues but suddenly have the hottest pitching staff, with three straight shutouts.,Miami has thrown 28 consecutive scoreless innings, which is three short of the franchise record set in 2004.,After blanking the New York Mets 8-0 on Friday, the Ma...
Marlins earn third straight shutout, top Mets 8-0
Nine-hole hitter Nick Fortes, who was batting just .127 entering the game, slugged a three-run home run to lead the Miami Marlins to an 8-0 win over the visiting New York Mets on Friday night.,Fortes went 3-for-3 with three runs, three RBIs and one walk. He has also been the catcher for the past thr...
Marlins try to keep hot streak going vs. Mets
When the New York Mets visit the Miami Marlins on Friday night to start a three-game series, it will be a battle of two under-.500 teams sitting in the last two spots in the National League East standings.,But that's where the similarities end.,The Mets had the highest Opening Day payroll in basebal...
Marlins shut out Tigers for second consecutive game
Trevor Rogers recorded his first win of the season and a quartet of relievers completed the Marlins' second straight shutout of the Detroit Tigers as Miami collected a 2-0 road victory on Wednesday afternoon.,Rogers (1-6) lasted the minimum five innings, giving up three hits and two walks with six s...
Marlins, Tigers look for more offense after low-scoring affair
The Miami Marlins and the host Detroit Tigers will try to wake up their slumbering offenses during a Wednesday matinee.,The second game of their three-game series on Tuesday was scoreless after nine innings. The Marlins scored the only run of the contest in the 10th on a fielder's choice. Both start...
Marlins outlast Tigers 1-0 in pitchers' duel
Jesus Sanchez drove in the game's only run on a ground ball as the visiting Miami Marlins edged the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in 10 innings on Tuesday night.,There were eight total hits in a pitchers' duel between Marlins left-hander Ryan Weathers and Tigers right-hander Reese Olson.,Weathers set down the ...
Spencer Torkelson's bat coming to life as Tigers, Marlins collide
Spencer Torkelson is finally hitting home runs again, a welcome sight for the Detroit Tigers.,Torkelson, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 draft, blasted 31 homers last year, his second season in the majors. He hadn't gone deep this season until he smacked a ninth-inning, two-run shot in a lopsided...
Marlins place Tim Anderson (back) on 10-day IL
The Miami Marlins placed shortstop Tim Anderson on the 10-day injured list on Monday due to lower back tightness. ,The move is retroactive to Saturday. ,After spending the first eight seasons of his major league career with the Chicago White Sox, Anderson has struggled in his first season with Miami...
Tigers use 3-run eighth to top Marlins
Spencer Torkelson clubbed a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth and the host Detroit Tigers topped the Miami Marlins 6-5 on Monday night.,Torkelson's long ball, his second of the season, made a winner of Alex Faedo (3-1). Jason Foley recorded his 10th save.,Otto Lopez hit a two-run homer for the M...
After breaking 5-game skid, Marlins pay Tigers rare visit
Detroit Tigers right-hander Matt Manning has been recalled from Triple-A Toledo three times this season to make a start during a doubleheader.,Manning is coming back to Detroit on Monday, but this time he has the stage all to himself, as he is expected to draw the start in the opener of a three-game...
Marlins take down Phillies in 10 innings
Emmanuel Rivera drilled a walk-off RBI single in the 10th inning to lead the host Miami Marlins to a 7-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday afternoon.,Rivera, a pinch hitter for Jesus Sanchez, grounded his single off the body of reliever Gregory Soto (0-1). It was the first walk-off hit of...
Rob Manfred is in Over His Head, And He Knows it
If baseball is a symbol or microcosm of our nation at large, as baseball writers like to constantly tell us while finishing their Weetabix, then it scans that both of those entities are lacking leadership at this moment. Rob Manfred has no clue what to do, because his only directive — making sure th...
Why Didn’t the Phillies Get a Vote Sunday?
The main problem of MLB’s “strategy,” such as it was, for playing this season was that it depended on baseball people. It depended on sports people. And in the world of sports people, the binary has always been, “Playing = good, not playing = bad.” Which is how MLB got into this mess....
Derek Jeter's Culture Of Accountability Looks An Awful Lot Like Marlins Baseball
Since Major League Baseball’s players shut down the 1994 season with a work stoppage, only 13 teams have won a World Series. The Marlins have done it twice, with radically different teams, in 1997 and 2003. They’ve not been a factor in the National League East since the last of those wins, and never...
The Easiest Way To Catch A 350-Pound Marlin
This video's apparently a few days old, but it's new to us. A group of fishermen floating near the Dominican Coast made the most effortless catch ever when a 350-pound blue marlin jumped onto their boat, essentially invalidating the whole point of fishing....
The First Season Of Marlins Park Was A Tremendous Failure
The Miami Marlins opened their new ballpark in April to much pomp and fanfare and cringe-inducing spectacle, and there were great hopes that the empty orange seats that had come to represent the very idea of baseball in South Florida would fast become but a memory. Funny thing about that! The team, ...
Adam Greenberg Is Getting A Topps Card
Adam Greenberg got his much anticipated first official major-league at-bat last night. R.A. Dickey struck him out on three pitches, but Topps thought his "dedication, hard work & persistence" were worthy of being immortalized on a baseball card. The stats on the back of that card are going to look p...
Seven Years After Getting Concussed By The First Pitch He Saw, Adam Greenberg Gets A Second Chance
Adam Greenberg's career slash line is .000/1.000/.000. On July 9, 2005, Greenberg made his debut with the Chicago Cubs when he entered a game against the Marlins as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning. His major league debut ended abruptly, though, when Valerio de los Santos's first pitch, a 92-mph f...
Ozzie Guillen Went On A Truly Fantastic Twitter Rant In Which He Compared Derek Jeter And Alex Cintron
Ozzie Guillen is back on Twitter, after three-and-a-half month sabbatical. Today he shared with the world his thoughts on Derek Jeter, Alex Cintron, football, and bullfighting, all in typical Ozzie fashion:...
Jason Bay Hit A Grand Slam, So Naturally Twitter Brought Out The Knives
Jason Bay has been having a bit of a rough go of it lately...this season...since he was diagnosed with that reverse-aging disease since joining the Mets. Mets fans can be tough crowd to please, too, so when Jason Bay hit a spirit-lifting grand slam during today's game to put the Mets up five on the ...