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GAME # 18 HOME GAME # 8 (2-5) TODAY’S BROADCASTS WASHINGTON NATIONALS (7-10) * ^ RHP Stephen Strasburg (1-1, 4.50) FS FLORIDA WINZ WAQI vs. TOMORROW’S GAME INFO MIAMI MARLINS (6-11) START TIME (ET) - 1:10 P.M. RHP Tom Koehler (1-2, 6.75) WASHINGTON STARTER MIAMI STARTER LHP Gio Gonzalez RHP Dan Haren MARLINS PARK, MIAMI, FL (1-1, 3.44) (1-1, 3.32) Saturday, April 25, 2015 – 4:10 P.M. TOMORROW’S BROADCAST INFO * ^ FS FLORIDA WINZ WAQI * - English Flagship (940AM) ^ - Spanish Flagship (710AM) FISH BITES OPPONENT INFO The Marlins continue their nine-game homestand with the second of three against the Washington Nationals today at 4:10 p.m. Tom Koehler is making his sixth career start against the Nats, going 2-3 with a 4.03 ERA (29.0 ip/13 er). He MARLINS VS. NATIONALS will be opposed by Stephen Strasburg, who has gone 9-5 with a 3.44 ERA (102.0/39) in 19 career starts against the DATE SITE RESULT TIME/ATTND Fish. Today’s ceremonial first pitch will be thrown out by Reach Records recording artist KB, and the National Anthem 4/24 MIA W,3-2 16,259 is being performed by Ariel Rose. This afternoon is Fellowship Day and Jackie Robinson Day at Marlins Park. Fans who 4/25 MIA 4:10 purchased the VIP special event package for Fellowship Day received a game ticket, access to a postgame fel- 4/26 MIA 1:10 lowship event hosted by team chaplain Chris Lane, an opportunity to engage with Marlins’ players as they discuss 5/4 WSH 7:05 their devotion to faith and the community, and a live postgame concert by KB. Fans who purchased the special 5/5 WSH 7:05 event package for Jackie Robinson Day received a Marlins commemorative Jackie Robinson T-shirt along with their 5/6 WSH 1:05 game ticket. Following this three-game set against Washington, the Marlins will play host to the Mets (April 27-29) 7/28 MIA 7:10 and Phillies (May 1-3). 7/29 MIA 7:10 7/30 MIA 12:10 VS. THE NATIONALS 8/28 WSH 7:05 8/29 WSH 7:05 The Marlins were 6-13 vs. the Nationals last season, just 3-7 in Miami, including dropping the last five games at Marlins 8/30 WSH 1:35 Park. The Marlins have won just two of their last 10 games overall against Washington. The Fish are 101-79 all-time at 9/11 MIA 7:10 home versus the Nationals franchise, just 14-15 at Marlins Park. Overall, the Marlins are 190-165 against the Nationals 9/12 MIA 4:10 franchise, 99-83 since they moved to Washington. 9/13 MIA 1:10 LAST NIGHT 9/17 WSH 7:05 9/18 WSH 7:05 Miami recorded its first comeback win of the season, downing the Washington Nationals, 3-2. The Fish found them- 9/19 WSH 4:05 selves down 1-0 through four innings, but two-out run-scoring singles by Mat Latos and Dee Gordon put Miami up, 9/20 WSH 1:35 2-1, after five innings. The lead was short lived, as Washington tied the game in the top of the sixth. In the eighth, All Times Eastern Martin Prado delivered an RBI single to right field to scoreAdeiny Hechavarria and cap the scoring. Gordon led the SERIES INFO offense with a 3x4 night, and Hechavarria continued swinging a hot bat, going 2x3. Latos went 6.1 innings for the 2015 at Home 1 0 Marlins, allowing two runs on six hits and a walk while striking out four. Bryan Morris (2-0) earned the win with a score- 2015 on Road 0 0 less eighth, and Steve Cishek notched his first save of the season. 2014 Series 6 13 All-Time at Home 101 79 ELIAS SAYS... at Sun Life Stadium 85 64 Martin Prado’s run-scoring single in the eighth inning was the game-winning hit in the Marlins’ win over the Nationals. at US Cellular Field 2 0 Prado has had a hit in each of his last four at-bats with runners in scoring position matching the longest such streak at Marlins Park 14 15 of his major league career, which he did four times previously. - Elias All-Time on Road 89 86 at Olympic Stadium 39 40 JUST KEEP SWINGING at Hiram Bithorn Stadium 5 1 Adeiny Hechavarria swung a torrid bat on Miami’s last road trip, posting a .462 average (18x39) with one home run at RFK Stadium 12 15 and nine RBI, and continued his streak with a 2x3 night last night. Since April 13, Hechavarria leads the Majors in aver- at Nationals Park 33 30 age (.476; 20x42), runs scored (12) and hits. He has recorded at least one hit in each of his last seven games, batting All-Time Totals 190 165 .481 (13x27) over the streak, and owns one of nine current hitting streaks of seven-or-more games among National TEAM VS. TEAM STATS League hitters. Matt Carpenter has the longest current streak at 11 games, followed by Ian Desmond’s 10-game run. 2015 MARLINS VS. NATIONALS SINGLING HIMSELF OUT Average: ............................................. .290 Dee Gordon has recorded 27 hits this season, one more than Adam Jones for the Major League lead, and two Runs: ......................................................... 3 ahead of Adrian Gonzalez and Matt Kemp. Of his 27 hits, 22 have been singles, which is the most by any Marlin ERA: ..................................................... 2.00 through the first 17 games of a season. In addition, Gordon also leads the Majors with eight infield hits and is tied with 2015 NATIONALS VS. MARLINS four others for the lead in reaching base on errors (3). Average: ............................................. .194 ADDING UP RUNS Runs: ......................................................... 2 ERA: ..................................................... 3.38 Ichiro Suzuki, with a run scored last night, has six runs on the season and 1,309 in his Major League career. In his Japa- nese career with the Orix Blue Wave, Ichiro scored 658 runs, giving him a combined 1,967 runs scored. He has tied the Japanese record for runs scored previously held by Sadaharu Oh, who scored 1,967 runs in his career, entirely in Japan. With one more run, Ichiro will have unofficially broken Oh’s record for most runs scored by a Japanese player. D-D-DEFENSE Miami has committed just five errors this season, tied for the fewest in the Majors with Tampa Bay. The five errors are THIS DATE IN MARLINS HISTORY the fewest through the first 17 games in Marlins history, two fewer than the previous low done twice, most recently April 25 in 2004. The 1993 squad won their first series and the BIG LEAGUE DREAM first in Franchise history against the Rockies in Colorado (two games to one). Also, in 1995, With the selection of Jhonatan Solano from New Orleans yesterday, the Marlins now have the first set of brothers to Terry Pendleton homered on Opening Day in appear on the Marlins 25-man roster at the same time in the 23-year history of the organization. This is not the first his first game as a member of the Marlins. The time the two have shared a Major League field together, however. On May 29, 2012 as a member of the Nationals, Dodgers won the game, 8-7, however, as the Jhonatan made his Major League debut at Marlins Park, just eight days after brother Donovan made his MLB debut Fish rallied late to score four runs in the ninth, with Miami. The duo became the first set of brothers to make their Major League debuts in the same month since but fell short. Vladimir (9/19/96) and Wilton (9/3/96) Guerrero. Through extensive research, it is believed by Stats LLC, that the So- Overall record on this date: 8-13 lano’s were the first set of brothers to record their first career hits in the same month since Pete (Baltimore) and Steve (Milwaukee) Stanicek in September 1987. DEE-FEAT PARKINSON’S The month of April is national Parkinson’s Awareness Month, and Dee Gordon is encouraging fans to pledge support to The Blechman Foundation for every stolen base he records this month. For additional information about the Miami-based Blechman Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and to pledge support, fans can visit: http://blechmanfoundation.org/dee-feat-pd/ UPCOMING STARTERS DATE TIME (ET) OPPONENT MARLINS STARTER OPPONENT STARTER BROADCASTS Sunday, April 26 1:10 p.m. Washington Nationals RHP Dan Haren (1-1, 3.32) LHP Gio Gonzalez (1-1, 3.44) FS Florida/WINZ/WAQI Monday, April 27 7:10 p.m. New York Mets RHP Jarred Cosart (1-1, 3.63) RHP Dillon Gee (0-1, 5.60) FS Florida/WINZ/WAQI Tuesday, April 28 7:10 p.m. New York Mets RHP David Phelps (1-0, 3.55) RHP Rafael Montero (0-1, 4.15) FS Florida/WINZ/WAQI Wednesday, April 29 7:10 p.m. New York Mets RHP Mat Latos (0-3, 7.31) RHP Bartolo Colon (4-0, 2.77) FS Florida/WINZ/WAQI TOM 2015 DAY-BY-DAY/CAREER INFO DATE OPP DEC IP H R ER BB SO HR TP/ST SCORE 4/8 ATL L(0-1) 6.0 5 2 2 3 4 1 92/51 L,0-2 4/14 @ATL W(1-1) 5.1 6 2 2 2 3 2 89/57 W,8-2 KOEHLER 4/19 @NYM L(1-2) 3.1 5 7 7 2 1 0 61/37 L,6-7 H/W: 6-3/233 B/T: R/R MLB SERVICE: 2 YEARS, 37 DAYS CAREER PITCHING YEAR W-L ERA G GS IP H R ER BB SO HR MLB DEBUT: 9/5/12 vs.