DEE GORDON • Owns Following Club Single-Season Records for Rookie C: H (81), 2B (16), 3B (6)
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GAME # 117 ROAD GAME # 59 (18-40) TODAY’S BROADCASTS MIAMI MARLINS (46-70) * ^ RHP David Phelps (4-8, 4.35) FS Florida WINZ WAQI at TOMORROW’S GAME INFO ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (75-41) START TIME (EDT) - 8:10 P.M. RHP Carlos Martinez (12-4, 2.62) MIAMI STARTER MILWAUKEE STARTER LHP Justin Nicolino RHP Matt Garza BUSCH STADIUM, ST. LOUIS, MO (1-1, 4.86) (6-12, 4.82) Sunday, August 16, 2015 – 2:15 P.M. EDT TOMORROW’S BROADCAST INFO * ^ FS Florida WINZ WAQI * - English Flagship (940AM) ^ - Spanish Flagship (710AM) FISH BITES The Marlins wrap up this three-game set against the St. Louis Cardinals today at 2:15 EDT, with St. Louis-native David OPPONENT INFO Phelps taking the mound for Miami. The right-hander, who is looking to snap a five-game losing streak, is making just MARLINS VS. CARDINALS his second start against the Cardinals, suffering the loss on May 27, 2014 at Busch Stadium; he allowed five runs (three earned) on eight hits (one home run) and two walks, with five strikeouts, in 6.0 innings. St. Louis will send right-hander DATE SITE RESULT TIME/ATTND Carlos Martinez to the bump, who is 1-0, 3.86 (7.0 ip/3 er) in one career start against the Marlins. Following today’s con- 6/23 MIA L,3-4 21,759 test, the Marlins will head north to Milwaukee for a three-game set against the Brewers. Miami enters this trip following 6/24 MIA L,1-6 18,492 a brief two-game homestand that saw the Marlins sweep the Red Sox. 6/25 MIA L,1-5 20,733 8/14 STL L,1-3 42,025 VS. THE CARDINALS 8/15 STL L,2-6 44,706 8/16 STL 2:15 Miami looks to snap a five-game losing streak against the Cardinals. The Marlins are 0-5 against the Redbirds this sea- All Times Eastern son, suffering a sweep at Marlins Park from June 23-25. The Fish are 8-16 against St. Louis since the beginning of the Miami era, but have won two of their last four meetings at Busch Stadium. The Cardinals lead the all-time series, 103-68, SERIES INFO and have a 50-36 lead in the Gateway City. 2015 at Home 0 3 LAST NIGHT 2015 on Road 0 2 2014 Series 4 2 Miami could not take advantage of its opportunities, going 0x8 with runners in scoring position and dropping the middle All-Time at Home 32 53 game of this three-game set at St. Louis, 6-2. The Marlins erased an early one-run deficit in the second inning, when at Sun Life Stadium 27 45 Marcel Ozuna singled and moved to third on a single by Cole Gillespie. Ozuna then scored on a balk by John Lackey. at Marlins Park 5 8 The Cardinals retook the lead with two runs in the bottom of the second, and the score held until Justin Bour hit a solo All-Time on Road 36 50 home run in the sixth inning to cut the deficit in half. The Cards capped the scoring with three runs in the bottom half at Old Busch 25 32 of the sixth. Ichiro Suzuki had two singles on the night, with his single in the first inning marking professional hit #4,192 for at New Busch 11 18 Suzuki, unofficially surpassing Ty Cobb for the second-most career hits all-time. All-Time Totals 68 103 UP NEXT TEAM VS. TEAM STATS Following today’s game, Miami heads north for its first meeting of 2015 with the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brew Crew 2015 MARLINS VS. CARDINALS won the 2014 season series, 3-4, but the two clubs split the four-game series at Miller Park. The Fish were 20-17 over their Average .............................................. .223 first 37 games in Milwaukee, but have gone 5-16 over their last 21 games. Overall, the Marlins trail the all-time series, Runs .......................................................... 8 59-63, and are 8-13 since moving to Miami. ERA ...................................................... 5.02 EXCLUSIVE COMPANY 2015 CARDINALS VS. MARLINS Ichiro Suzuki recorded career MLB hits #2,914 and #2,915 last night. He has 4,193 career hits between Japan (1,278) and Average .............................................. .279 MLB, unofficially the second-most career hits all-time. Additionally, Suzuki, who is 38th on the all-time hits list, is also the Runs ........................................................ 24 active leader in stolen bases (496), ranking 23rd on the all-time list (since 1898, modern stolen base rule). ERA ...................................................... 1.40 According to Elias, he would become just the eighth player all-time to reach 2,900 hits and 500 steals, joining Ty Cobb (4,191/901), Honus Wagner (3,430/724), Paul Molitor (3,319/504), Eddie Collins (3,313/743), Rickey Henderson (3,055/1,406), Lou Brock (3,023/938), and Barry Bonds (2,935/514). Earlier this season, Suzuki passed several baseball legends on the all-time hits list, including Babe Ruth (2,873, 43rd) and Mel Ott (2,876, 42nd). EARLY RISERS The Marlins are batting .269 (345x1281) day games this season, with 55 doubles, 11 triples, 31 home runs and 159 RBI in THIS DATE IN MARLINS HISTORY 38 games. The .269 average ranks second in the National League and fifth in MLB, behind Detroit (.293), Boston (.283), Kansas City (.271) and Colorado (.271). Three Marlins players rank in the top 10 in the NL in average in day games. Dee August 16 Gordon leads the League with a .386 (54x140) mark, Justin Bour (.347) ranks fifth and J.T. Realmuto (.338) ranks eighth. Edgar Renteria extended his hitting-streak to In addition, Realmuto ranks third in the NL in slugging (.662) in day games, while Bour ranks sixth (.627). 22 consecutive games in 1996 with a single in the sixth inning. Renteria was 1x4 in the HOT COLE contest and his 22-game htting-streak would Cole Gillespie continues to take advantage of his opportunities, batting .400 (14x35) in August, with five multi-hit hold as the Franchise’s longest until 2002 (Luis Castillo, 35-straight). In 2013, Justin Ruggiano games, five runs scored, two doubles and two RBI. The five multi-hit games came in consecutive contests, marking a became the first Marlin ever to come off the career high. Overall, Gillespie has made 25 starts for Miami this season, 14 in center field, 10 in right field and one in left bench to record 3-plus hits, 2-plus home runs field. He is batting .340 (32x94) as a starter, with 12 runs, nine doubles, a triple, home run and nine RBI. and 4-plus RBI in a game. According to STATS, STOP IT LLC, Ruggiano was the first player in the Ma- jors to accomplish that feat since Kelly Gru- th The Marlins, who have committed errors in consecutive games for just the 12 time this season, have committed the ber, who did so for the Blue Jays on April 11, fewest amount of errors (57) through 117 games in Franchise history. The 2003 Marlins committed the second fewest 1988 against the Yankees (4 H, 2 HR, 5 RBI). with 63 errors in its first 117 games. The 57 errors by Miami are the third-fewest in the National League and fifth-fewest in Overall record on this date: 10-10 the Majors. Miami also ranks fourth in the NL and sixth in MLB with a .987 fielding percentage (4212 TC). ROOKIE CATCHING ON J.T. Realmuto has 81 hits this season, surpassing Charles Johnson’s previous Club record (79) for hits by a rookie catcher. He tripled on Wednesday, his sixth of the season, tying him with Benito Santiago (1993) for the Marlins’ single-season record for triples by a catcher. On Tuesday, Realmuto recorded his 16th double of the season, breaking a tie with Charles Johnson (1995) for the most by a rookie catcher in Club history. Charles Johnson holds the Club mark for most games caught (97), while Realmuto ranks second (84). Among National League rookies this season, Realmuto ranks eighth in average (min. 300 AB) at .252 (81x322), second in triples (6), ninth in doubles (16) and tied for 10th in hits. Among all NL catchers, he ranks first in triples, fifth in doubles and runs scored (39), seventh in games played and hits, eighth in home runs (6), and tied for eighth in RBI (35). BACK-TO-BACK Miami Marlins RBI defeated Harrisburg RBI by the score of 5-4 at Globe Life Park in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers, earning them their fourth overall RBI World Series Baseball Championship and their first in the Senior Division since 2004. This also marks the second consecutive baseball championship for the Marlins RBI pro- gram – they won the Junior Baseball Division Championship at the 2014 RBI World Series. Shortstop Bryan Lavastida, 17, was named the Most Valuable Player of the Senior Baseball Division Championship Game, and led the team to a 5-1 record in the tournament with a .450 average, 1.172 OPS, six RBI and seven runs scored. UPCOMING STARTERS DATE TIME (ET) OPPONENT MARLINS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER BROADCASTS Monday, August 17 8:10 p.m. at Milwaukee Brewers LHP Justin Nicolino (1-1, 4.86) RHP Matt Garza (6-12, 4.82) FS Florida/WINZ/WAQI Tuesday, August 18 8:10 p.m. at Milwaukee Brewers LHP Adam Conley (1-0, 5.00) RHP Tyler Cravy (0-4, 5.92) FS Florida/WINZ/WAQI Wednesday, August 19 2:10 p.m.