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Speaker 1: Hello Marlons fans, This is Daniel Rodriguez here for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: April eighth, two thy twenty one for Big Fish, Small Pond.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who may be new to the pod,

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Speaker 1: here we'd like to give you all the information about

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Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins for that particular day, all season long

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Speaker 1: and hopefully in the playoffs. But first off about yesterday. Wow,

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Speaker 1: things did not look good for Miami yesterday and especially

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Speaker 1: all series long versus Saint Louis after they were swept

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Speaker 1: by the Cardinals, including a seven to zero loss yesterday,

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Speaker 1: dropping the Marlins to one in five so far in

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Speaker 1: this young season. But the Marlins have two very tough

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Speaker 1: divisional series next which are both going to be away

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Speaker 1: coming up first.

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Speaker 2: Off against the New York Mets and secondly versus the

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Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves, and both, as I mentioned, are on the road,

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Speaker 2: which Miami did fare well against last season, finishing.

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Speaker 1: Up twenty and fourteen on the road last year. But

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Speaker 1: fur the Marlins, the starters continue to be the stars,

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Speaker 1: as Pablo Lopez had another great performance with six and

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Speaker 1: two thirds innings pitch only giving up three hits, two

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Speaker 1: earned runs, two walks, but he did strike out six batters.

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Speaker 1: But despite this great outing from the starter, the offense

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Speaker 1: continues to be the biggest issue for the Marlins. The

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Speaker 1: Martins only total three hits yesterday, as the team is

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Speaker 1: continually to drop their batting average. As the hitting was

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Speaker 1: not good, it definitely needs to be addressed as more

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Speaker 1: games continue. But first I want to share its very

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Speaker 1: interesting stat I saw on Twitter and to give credit,

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Speaker 1: I want to give it to Chris Towers on CBS

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Speaker 1: who had this this step right here. The Marlins starting

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Speaker 1: pitchers so far this season in six games thirty innings pitched,

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Speaker 1: have thirty six strikeouts and a two point four OH EER.

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Speaker 1: Where the relief pitchers, which for the Marlins was an

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Speaker 1: area that they focused on heavily this offseason making trade

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Speaker 1: setting free agents. So far it has not been very

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Speaker 1: well for the Marlins as the relief pitches twenty four

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Speaker 1: point one innings pitched, twenty three strikeouts. But the biggest

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Speaker 1: number here a six point six y five ERA. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it almost triples the era the starting rotation has and

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Speaker 1: that wasn't bad enough. Here are the hitters from the Martins,

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Speaker 1: not including the pitchers. Martins are batting at two twenty

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Speaker 1: batting average with a three two three sluggy percentage. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're almost hitting and the Medozen line almost at two

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Speaker 1: hundred batting two twenty so far this season. But things

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Speaker 1: hope to be better for the Marlins coming up against

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Speaker 1: the New York Mets. But the rotation has really been

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Speaker 1: great so far and continues as tomorrow we will either

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Speaker 1: have Paul Campbell pitching or Nick Knight as I will

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Speaker 1: get into that later in the pod, but for now,

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Speaker 1: here is how the bullpen did yesterday, combining for two

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Speaker 1: and one third inns pitched, giving up five hits, five

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Speaker 1: earned runs, and two walks. But those numbers might seem

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Speaker 1: weird as four of those earned runs came as Zagpop

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Speaker 1: gave up a grand Slam late in the game, bases

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Speaker 1: loaded three to two, pitch Carlson a drive right center

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Speaker 1: grand telling Carlson unloads, and a long one in the

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Speaker 1: right center his first career grand slam. In game. It

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Speaker 1: looked like the Marlins are similar seemingly excuse me, hitting

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Speaker 1: for the fences, as they are not playing to make

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Speaker 1: contact as most of the Marlins are. Basically their hits

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Speaker 1: are flyouts almost at the warning track but barely reaching

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Speaker 1: over the fence to be a home run, and it's

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Speaker 1: not really been looking good yesterday. But today is a

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Speaker 1: new day from Miami, meaning a new series starts today

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Speaker 1: as the Margins will face their arrival for the New

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Speaker 1: York Mets at an early start time of one ten pm.

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Speaker 1: After Margins will continue to look for their starting rotation

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Speaker 1: to just provide great outings as we've seen from Pablo,

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Speaker 1: we've seen from Sandy, who Sandy so far looks like well,

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Speaker 1: I don't say it looks, but is the ace from

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Speaker 1: the Marlins and is looking like one of the top

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Speaker 1: twenty to ten pitchers in baseball, definitely top ten International

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Speaker 1: League as the Marlins do continue today against the Mets

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Speaker 1: and they will face off against Taiwan Walker. Taiwan Walker

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Speaker 1: so far had spring a three point twenty seven ERA

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Speaker 1: and only starting three spring games. But the Marlins do

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Speaker 1: look to get a win today against the Mets. But

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Speaker 1: before you go watch the game, make sure to like, share,

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