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Speaker 1: Today is April second, and this is big Fish Small Pod.

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Speaker 1: Today the Miami Marlins will face the Tampa Bay Rays

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Speaker 1: for the second game of the Citrus Series. And yesterday

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Speaker 1: they opened their season at home at Lone Depot Park

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Speaker 1: in Miami, Florida, against those same American League champion Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay Rays that we saw lose to the Dodgers at

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Speaker 1: the end of the abbreviated twenty twenty season. Manager Don

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Speaker 1: Mattingly gave Sandy il Contra the ball to face Tyler

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Speaker 1: glassnew and that decorated Tampa Bay squad in the same

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Speaker 1: city as before, in the same ballpark as before, on

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Speaker 1: a new network, and with a new name. This Miami

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Speaker 1: Marlins team would face Tampa Bay again. After a pair

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Speaker 1: of flyouts, a single, a walk, and a hit batter,

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Speaker 1: Sandy al Contras seemed to be in trouble, but a

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Speaker 1: strikeout of Kevin Kermeyer would represent the zero for his

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Speaker 1: first inning of work and for each of Sandy's six

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Speaker 1: successful assaults on the Tampa Bay Rays lineup. Tyler Glass

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Speaker 1: now matched it. What we saw on the first night

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty one season was two truly dominant

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Speaker 1: starts by two truly dominant pitchers, and for the first

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Speaker 1: six innings these hitters barely had a shot. A patient

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Speaker 1: approach by Corey Dickerson to start the first did not

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Speaker 1: reveal a flaw for Tyler Glass Now. It just exhibited

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Speaker 1: the same sort of stuff that would carry him through

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Speaker 1: the game. In the first Tyler peaked his fastball at

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Speaker 1: one hundred point six miles an hour and regularly threw

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Speaker 1: over ninety nine to go with his swing and miss slider,

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Speaker 1: curveball and changeup that he did bring out in the

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Speaker 1: game once. Sandy brought his full arsenal to the game

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Speaker 1: with a sinker that hit ninety eight, a slider, a

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Speaker 1: change up, his fourcing fastball, and he threw in five

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Speaker 1: four curveballs to show his versatility as a pitcher, and

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Speaker 1: one out and scored his game. He had another strikeout

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Speaker 1: through Sandy. He's got four one in each of his

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Speaker 1: gatings thus far. Quickly nothing at two to Willie Domis

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Speaker 1: and there's another strike out for Sandy. There was some

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Speaker 1: hard contact as both of these pitchers absolutely pounded the

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Speaker 1: strike zone with their end out stuff. A Brandon Lowe

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Speaker 1: double to lead off the fourth represented a threat by

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Speaker 1: Tampa and Jazz hit Chisholm Junior came up and made

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Speaker 1: solid contact multiple times against the Tampa Bay Ace, but

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Speaker 1: the flow of the game took a shift in the

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Speaker 1: sixth inning when Magnarina Sierra came in to pinch it

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins, Sandy Alcntra spelling the end of his

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Speaker 1: night and offering our first look at this new Marlin's bullpen.

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Speaker 1: In the seventh, Don maddingly turned to Dylan Floro, who

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Speaker 1: is a recent acquisition, who is a new Marlin that

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Speaker 1: just faced Tampa Bay in the World Series as a

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Speaker 1: member of the Major League champion Los Angeles dot There's

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Speaker 1: a lot yet to be revealed about how this Miami

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Speaker 1: Marlins bullpen will work and function throughout this full length

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Speaker 1: major league season. But tonight Don maddingly turned to Dylan Floro,

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Speaker 1: who debatably has been the most exposed of these Marlins

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Speaker 1: pitchers to the Tampa Bay Rays, and Dylan Floro worked

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Speaker 1: a clean inning, earning some weak contact with his slider

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Speaker 1: on the outside part of the plate. Up next in

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Speaker 1: the eighth, the Marlins turned to fellow former Dodger Jimmy Garcia,

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Speaker 1: who broke the pattern of dominance as an Austin Meadows.

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Speaker 1: Moonshot lit up the sky towards Wright Center and exited

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Speaker 1: the ballpark, giving the Rays their only run. In the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the eighth, down a run, Jazz Chisholm Junior

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Speaker 1: had another good swing for an out. Poor howl Faro

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Speaker 1: came to the plate and scorched a single up the middle,

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Speaker 1: hitting Pete Fairbanks on the foot, and it seemed as

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Speaker 1: though this Tampa Bay bullpen, which is seemingly assembled by

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Speaker 1: an analytics staff that just filtered some database for the

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Speaker 1: Major Lynks based on slider's spin rate, had been dented

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Speaker 1: like the machine that it might be. As Alfaro took first.

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Speaker 1: Coming out to the plate, we had proverbial Captain Miguel Rojas,

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Speaker 1: and behind him, no doubt we would have Garrett Cooper.

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Speaker 1: Rojas hit the ball deep to left and on his

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Speaker 1: swing he did not get his full force into the

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Speaker 1: ball as it settled into the left fielder's glove for

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Speaker 1: and out, and Garrett Cooper up next started his attack.

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Speaker 1: Alfaro from first reminded us all that he is still

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Speaker 1: a catcher that can do it all by stealing his

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Speaker 1: way to second. Garrett's at bat was formidable. He owned

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Speaker 1: the plate worked a countful and won the walk to

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Speaker 1: bring up Corey Dickerson, which was enough to warrant to

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Speaker 1: visit to the mound, a moment of humanity for a

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Ray's team, unsure of its own identity, fish

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Speaker 1: or sunlight. After the assembly, the Rays got Corey Dickerson

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Speaker 1: to end the eighth. For the bottom of the ninth,

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Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays sent in their closer, Diego Castillo,

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Speaker 1: who leans heavily on a slider and a sinker, and again,

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Speaker 1: like all of these Tampa Bay pitchers that we saw

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Speaker 1: on April, first a slider, I think that's worth note,

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Speaker 1: and Diego would strike out Sterling Martee on three pitches,

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Speaker 1: get Jesu's Aguilar to fly out to deep left field,

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Speaker 1: and strike out Adam Devall to end it for the

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Speaker 1: final score of one to zero. The Austin Meadows home

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Speaker 1: run off of Ummy Garcia marking the only tangible offense

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Speaker 1: by either team to start the year. Some notes Today's

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Speaker 1: dominant Tyler Glass now along with the home run hitting

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Speaker 1: Austin Meadows, were traded to the Rays for Chris Archer

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Speaker 1: by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Chris Archer, we will see in

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Speaker 1: Game three, supposedly piggybacking the start with Rich Hill, and

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Speaker 1: somehow this series featuring Tyler glassnow Austin Meadows and Chris

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Speaker 1: Archer for the Rays sounds like a total disaster for

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Speaker 1: the Pirates. Otherwise, upcoming matchups are as follows. Tonight, the

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Speaker 1: Marlins will put Pablo Lopez on the mound against Ryan

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Speaker 1: Yarborough as the team looks to even the Citrus series.

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Speaker 1: And this home stretch of the Citrus Series will come

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Speaker 1: to a close with Game three on Saturday as Eliezer

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Speaker 1: Hernandez faces that tandem of Rich Hill and Chris Archer.

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Speaker 1: Easter Sunday will be off for the Marlins, and we

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Speaker 1: will return to your ears on Monday here at the

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Speaker 1: Fish Stripes Podcast as your Marlins face the National League

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Speaker 1: team that has won the most World Series in its history,

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Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals. Talk to you then,