Tag: Miami Marlins

LOOK: Marlins Jazz Chisholm sports LaMelo Ball jersey on Opening Day

LaMelo Ball’s popularity stretched to the MLB on Thursday and Marlins prospect Jazz Chisholm sported a Ball Hornets jersey pregame.

LaMelo Ball has long been a popular prospect but his emergence with the Charlotte Hornets has made him one of the most popular athletes in America. The most recent evidence of that came on Thursday during MLB’s Opening Day.

Highly-rated Miami Marlins prospect Jazz Chisholm arrived at Thursday’s Opening Day game against the Tampa Bay Rays in a LaMelo Ball purple Hornets jersey. The Marlins shared the picture of his arrival on a series of photos of players arriving at the stadium for Opening Day on Instagram and LaMelo Ball shared the picture on his Instagram Story.

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Chisholm, who was born in the Bahamas and joined the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2015 as an international free agent, has no apparent ties to the Charlotte area. That he sported a Ball Hornets jersey before the game, then, further shows how much the Hornets brand has grown and will continue to grow with Ball as the face of the franchise.

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MLB fans made the same joke about Derek Jeter allowing reduced capacity at Marlins games

Walked right into that one.

Last MLB season, every game — with the exception of the NLCS and World Series — was played behind closed doors as baseball tried to manage an abbreviated season amid a global pandemic.

And while the coronavirus pandemic is still very much an ongoing crisis, sports leagues across the U.S. have allowed fans to attend games at reduced capacities. That appears to also be the case for the 2021 MLB season.

But you have to feel for the Miami Marlins. They walked right into the joke.

On Monday, Marlins chief executive Derek Jeter announced that the team will open Marlins Park at 20 percent capacity to start this season. That would be just over 7,300 fans.

In 2019, the Marlins averaged 10,016 fans per game as the listed attendance. So, you could probably imagine how baseball fans reacted to Jeter’s news.

Poor Marlins.

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The MLB world is so excited at the Marlins hiring Kim Ng as first female GM in MLB history

This is a breakthrough.

The Miami Marlins just made a whole bunch of history with their hire of Kim Ng as their new general manager.

She is officially the first woman to ever be hired as a general manager in the history of Major League Baseball. She’s also the first Asian American to get a GM job in Major League Baseball.

This is groundbreaking. But, really, Ng has been ready for this job for years.

Ng has been MLB’s senior vice president of baseball operations for the last nine years and she’s been an assistant general manager for both the Yankees and the Dodgers. She’s been in the front office for eight playoff teams in her career and helped build three World Series championship teams.

The Marlins announced the hire on Twitter.

She’s interviewed for a few different general manager spots in the past but never landed the job — until now. And it’s about time.

Fans, media and players from the baseball world praised the hire.

 

The Braves scored 29 runs in a win over the Marlins and it was all so wild

29 runs!

The Atlanta Braves had a pretty good offensive night Wednesday against the Miami Marlins.

Ok, they had a spectacular night as they scored an incredible 29 runs in a 29-9 win at home.

Twenty-nine runs!

On the other hand, imagine scoring nine runs in a MLB game and losing by 20 runs! That’s what the Marlins had to deal with when they headed back to the hotel for a sad night of sleep.

What makes this even more crazy is that the Braves didn’t score any runs in the first inning. They then went on to score 11, 2, 3, 6, 3, 4, and zero in innings 2-8. That’s 29 runs in seven innings.

Wow.

Braves left fielder Adam Duvall had 3 home runs and 9 RBIs in the game!

It got so bad that the Marlins even had to have fun with it:

Twitter had fun with it, too:

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Don Mattingly’s profantity-laced argument with an ump was a thing of beauty

Don Mattingly held nothing back here.

It appears that Sunday is the day for some pretty foul-mouthed moments in baseball, as earlier today we got to hear an ump tell Detroit Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire to not-so-politely head back to the clubhouse.

Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly also had some feelings to share with an umpire on Sunday and his profanity-laced tirade was clearly picked up by some hot mics.

Donny Baseball didn’t hold back at all, telling the home-plate ump that his crew hasn’t been very good to his team in recent days. The ump had some great lines, too. And then the announcers summed it all up perfectly by saying Mattingly had his say.

He sure did.

This clip below has a lot of F-bombs in it so if that’s not your thing then you might want to do something else with your time.

Check this out

 

MLB fans loved it:

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LOOK: Miami Marlins give Alabama football a funny shout out

The Miami Marlins took to twitter to celebrate having the best winning percentage in baseball, and they had a funny way of including Alabama

There’s no denying that Alabama is the best of the best in college football, and has been since Nick Saban’s arrival in Tuscaloosa.

When Alabama had their back to back national championship seasons in 2011 and 2012, the phrase “We Want Bama,” became a phrase other college football teams used to basically say, “We want to play Bama to prove we are better than them.”

Ironically though, that rarely happened.

Just ask Auburn, Notre Dame, and LSU.. just to name a few.

But after awhile, other sports team used the phrase, even in the NFL, NHL, and the MLB.

The Miami Marlins took to twitter to celebrate now having the best winning percentage in baseball, and they had a funny way of including Alabama.

Two things make even better.

Former Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa now plays for the Miami Dolphins. If the Dolphins create the momentum this season, don’t be surprised if you see a similar sign in the stands.

And secondly, the Marlins have former Alabama pitcher Wade LeBlanc who had his third start on Thursday night.

All in all, this is a phrase I hope never gets old and goes away.

It’s funny, witty, and brings back so many memories.

Memories of Alabama winning back to back national titles, and becoming the best college football team in the nation.

And let’s be honest, everyone still wants Bama.

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Gators News: August 3, 2020

As we flip the calendar over to August, the weather and the news continues to heat up as the COVID-19 continues to disrupt our lives.

Welcome to another week on Gators Wire! As we flip the calendar over to August, the weather and the news from the sports world continues to heat up with the novel coronavirus continues to disrupt our way of life.

Major League Baseball continues to battle COVID-19, being forced to postpone several games this week as the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals sort out their outbreaks while the rest of the league looks to clamp down and avoid any further threats to the season. Additionally, New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes opted out for the season in the most dramatic fashion, essentially ghosting the team, which led to an awkward tweet by the Mets organization — basically a bad look for both the player and the organization.

Meanwhile, college football continues to push forward with its varied plans at holding a season this coming fall, but there could also be a push for the Power Five to split with the NCAA. Only time will tell.

Here is the news from the Gators Nation over the past weekend.

Around the Swamp

It’s great to be a Florida Gator!

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MLB’s failure with the Marlins’ coronavirus outbreak is proving to be a huge mess

The MLB season is spiraling out of control.

When MLB released its plans to proceed with a 60-game season that involved teams traveling, the possibility of a team-wide coronavirus outbreak had to be something the league considered.

The risks of playing outside a bubble in a global pandemic should have put MLB on alert to have immediate plans in place in the case of an outbreak. But it hasn’t even taken a full week to get to this scenario, and MLB commissioner Rob Manfred hasn’t been prepared to deal with it at all.

With at least 17 players and staff members of the Miami Marlins testing positive for the coronavirus, MLB is essentially trying to figure things out on the fly. The Marlins situation went from the team deciding over group text to play on Sunday despite positive cases within the clubhouse to MLB postponing the Marlins’ games for a couple days … to MLB pausing the Marlins’ season.

And this entire situation has put multiple teams in limbo. It’s not a situation that can be dismissed as “just the Marlins.”

The full scope of this mess is almost difficult to keep track of. But let’s give it a shot.

First, the Philadelphia Phillies played an entire series against the Marlins as the contagion spread within that visiting clubhouse. The Phillies had their Monday and Tuesday games against the Yankees postponed as the Phillies underwent testing. And thus far, no Phillies players have tested positive. But when it comes to the coronavirus, the incubation period can be anywhere from two to 10 days. An infected Phillies player could theoretically be testing negative right now.

So, when can the Phillies get back to play? It can’t be before Friday. It might have to be longer.

But the Marlins were supposed to play the Orioles this week, and the Phillies were supposed to play the Yankees. So rather than have four teams just take a week off from the already-abbreviated season, MLB may be looking at re-drawing the schedule to have the Yankees and Orioles play Wednesday and Thursday.

And, then, maybe (MAYBE!) if the Phillies continue to test negative through the week, they will play the Blue Jays for their weekend series starting Friday. This series would be in Philadelphia, but the Blue Jays — who weren’t allowed to play in Canada because *points at the previous eight paragraphs* — would be the designated home team. And that’s only if the Phillies avoid a potential team-wide outbreak.

There is also the Washington Nationals who are scheduled to play the Marlins this weekend. But that won’t be happening because MLB decided to postpone the Marlins’ games through Monday. So, the Nationals have the weekend off.

Basically, the MLB schedule looks something like this now.

All this really shows is how delicate the experiment of an MLB season is. The league is juggling health and safety with team schedules and hoping everything works out for the best … all while lacking daily rapid tests.

Manfred said on Monday that he wouldn’t put this outbreak in the “nightmare category.”

If we’re not there yet, I’d hate to see what qualifies as a nightmare. This season isn’t even a week old, and it’s been chaos.

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MLB’s Miami Marlins temporarily suspend season

The Miami Marlins have 19 positive COVID-19 tests at the moment, leading to their season getting temporarily suspended.

In an unfortunately predictable turn of events, MLB’s quest to begin the 2020 season has already hit a major snag.

Just a few days into the 60-game slate, the Miami Marlins are now having their season suspended, at least temporarily, while they monitor the health and safety of their players.

As of this writing, 19 people affiliated with the Marlins have tested positive for COVID-19, causing the team to delay their planned travel day to Baltimore. Then, after the Washington Nationals voted not to head to Miami to play the Marlins, the team finally opted to suspend their season.

MLB’s inability to come up with a concrete way to handle team-by-team outbreaks is indefensible, and leaving the decision to play games up to the players – instead of having a concrete ruling in writing – will almost certainly cause more issues to crop up as the season plugs along, at this time without the Marlins in tow.

Former USC Trojans right-handed pitcher Brad Boxberger is a member of the Marlins roster, although it is not clear if he is among the many players who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Boxberger, who was an All-Star in 2015 with the Rays, has made two appearances out of Miami’s bullpen in 2020, allowing zero runs with two walks and one strikeout.

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