Florida Marlins

By Alex Carver Stephen King couldn’t have written a better beginning to the Brewers’ postseason or a better ending to the Mets’ regular season. After former long time Beermaker Wes Helms hit an 8th inning pinch hit solo homer in his only AB of the game to put the Marlins ahead, former Mets farmhand Matt Lin...

By Alex Carver The offense did it’s part as well, providing him with a four run lead by plating runs in each of the first three innings. Jeremy Hermida and Josh Willingham both homered and Cameron Maybin and Matt Treanor both knocked in runs with RBI singles. Hermida’s first inning solo blast was his first h...

By Alex Carver Last season, the Marlins went to arbitration with eight different players and reached agreements with all of them. This year, seventeen players are up for arbitration. Early projections show that most of them are expected to make seven digits. Needless to say, some tough decisions will ne...

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By Alex Carver Olsen got more than enough run support. The Marlins hit Jair Jurrjens, who has been the Braves’ most effecitve starter in the second half, early and often. A Cody Ross two run homer in the 2nd and a Luis Gonzalez RBI double, a Dan Uggla infield single, a Mike Jacobs RBI groundout and a Ross RBI si...

By Alex Carver His last time out against the Marlins, Charlie Morton pitched well early and limited his mistakes. The lefty got off to a similar start against them tonight, getting through his first three innings without giving up a hit and through his first five without allowing a run. Late in the aforeme...

By Alex Carver The Marlins couldn’t do anything right on Saturday night in Arizona. The offense struggled, the defense wavered and the bullpen faltered as they lost for the fourth time in their last six games, wasting another opportunity to gain ground back in the race for the playoffs. Chris Volstad got...

By Alex Carver For Ricky Nolasco, the third time was the charm. After coming within an out of doing it twice this year, the 25-year-old finally got a 301 pound monkey off the Marlins’ backs on Tuesday night in San Francisco, tossing the first complete game in franchise history since September 16, 2006, 30...

By Alex Carver The Marlins got their runs on RBIs by Mike Jacobs (2), Jorge Cantu and Hanley Ramirez. Jacobs is 8 for his last 19 with 7 XBHs and 7 RBIs. I think it’s safe to say Hanley is back. This was his third straight game with a hit and second straight with at least one RBI.

By Alex Carver After being able to pitch but not being able to hit on Friday and after being able to hit but not being able to pitch on Saturday, the Marlins put it all together on Sunday, winning 8-2, avoiding being swept by the Mets and keeping pace with the Philadelphia Phillies in the race for the [...]

By Alex Carver Ryan Dempster stifled the Marlins on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field, limiting them to just one run on two hits but Jeff Samardzija allowed Florida to climb back into contention and Bob Howry gave up the game winning hit, a Jeremy Hermida solo home run. The 3-2 Florida victory evened up th...

By Alex Carver Renyel Pinto threw away Ricky Nolasco’s brilliant 6 inning outing in the 8th inning of Saturday night’s game against the Dodgers, giving up the tying run but the Marlins powered back in extra innings and took the series with a 5-3 win. The victory got the Fish to within one game of the divisio...

By Alex Carver Matt Lindstrom, Joe Nelson and Doug Waechter only gave up one more earned run in the final 4 frames but errors by Robert Andino and Mike Jacobs allowed the Rockies to plate three more. Dan Uggla can’t get back soon enough and Jacobs can’t get lost soon enough.

By Alex Carver Fredi Gonzalez played it safe on Sunday afternoon, deciding not to send rookie Chris Volstad out for his first major league start on three day’s rest. Still, by pitching two strong innings in relief, the 21-year-old phenom picked up his first major league win and helped the Marlins avoid b...

By Matt Birnbach The Marlins announced after tonight’s loss to Colorado that they have called up Chris Volstad and he will start in place of Mark Hendrickson. To make room for the Marlins strongest pitching prospect, Taylor Tankersley was sent to AAA Albuquerque. In 15 starts for the Double A Carolina Mudc...

By Alex Carver The Marlins will use Monday to travel back to South Florida where they will take on the Rays in the first of three on Tuesday. Andy Sonnanstine and Scott Olsen are your probables. Sonnanstine will meet the Fish for the second time in ten days. His last time out against them in St. Petersburg, he ga...

By Alex Carver The Marlins snapped Felix Hernandez’s streak of scoreless starts on Tuesday night in Seattle, touching him up for 3 runs in 7.1 innings but it wasn’t enough to undo the early struggles of Scott Olsen, who had his shortest start since May 23, lasting just 4 1/3 innings and giving up 4 runs. The M...

By Alex Carver Aside from a wild pitch, Scott Olsen had a stellar night, going 7 innings and giving up just one earned run. Unfortunately, that was the only break the Phillies would need. Jamie Moyer was perfect, tossing 8 innings of two hit, shutout ball and Philadelphia was able to avoid the sweep with a 3-...

By Alex Carver Nine days ago, Cody Ross called the Marlins’ loss to the Mets their worst loss of the year. Tonight, he gave them their best win of the year. All it took was a little more cowbell and a two run walk-off homer. However, the game shouldn’t have been close to begin with. Scott Olsen started and dazzled...

By Alex Carver After the 1st inning, Friday night’s battle for first place in the NL East wasn’t much of a battle at all. While Brett Meyers struck out 11 and only allowed 4 more Marlins to reach base, Mark Hendrickson gave up 10 earned runs and the Phillies pulverized the Marlins, 11-3.

By Alex Carver Cody Ross had a big night, going 2-4 with a homer and two RBIs but an early 3 run deficit would prove to be insurmountable as the Marlins dropped the second game of a three game set to the Mets, 5-3. In his last start, Andrew Miller was spectacular, tossing 7 shutout innings and striking out [...]

By Alex Carver With a chip on their shoulders, the Marlins hit the road for a lengthy 10 game trip. First stop: Flushing, New York. The three game set with the Mets kicks off tomorrow with Ricky Nolasco, who is coming off of a career night, matching up against Mike Pelfrey. Pelfrey had been solid in his last two...

By Alex Carver On Wednesday night, the Reds could do nothing wrong and the Marlins didn’t do anything right. Until the top of the 9th. The Fish scored six runs in the inning, three coming on a Cody Ross homer to tie the game but it was all for naught as rookie Paul Janish smacked a game winning single down the lef...

By Alex Carver Hanley Ramirez hit two homers and Scott Olsen pitched seven innings of one run ball as the Marlins trounced the Nationals 6-1 in the rubber match of a three game weekend series. After opening this six game home stand with a shutout victory over Atlanta, Olsen closed it by holding Washington...

By Alex Carver All of the offense came after Ricky Nolasco provided the Astros with a three run lead in the 1st. On Wednesday, Scott Olsen threw 120 pitches in 7 innings. Yesterday, Mark Hendrickson threw 80 pitches in 7.2 innings. Tonight, Nolasco was flirting with 50 pitches at the end of the 2nd. But after th...

By Matt Birnbach There was good news for Josh heading into the 2006 season as two previous players who were blocking him (Paul Lo Duca and Carlos Delgado) were both traded to the New York Mets. Former big league catcher, and new Marlins manager Joe Girardi pledged to take Josh under his wing and improve his ca...

By Andy Lavin We all felt the trade winds surrounding Miguel Cabrera. We all heard the rumors surrounding Dontrelle Willis. In return, the Marlins receive outfielder Cameron Maybin, pitcher Andrew Miller, catcher Mike Rabelo, and three minor leaguers.