Giancarlo is a beast

I don't see how you missed it.... but if you did.... Giancarlo hit a monster dong OUT of Dodger stadium Tuesday night....

Only 5 balls have ever left Dodger stadium and now Giancarlo is responsible for one of them.467 feet at a speed of 115 MPH.

Too bad the Marlins gave up 21 hits that night... 21!!

It was all better Wednesday night as Dee Gordon went 4-5, lifted his average to a whopping .426 and Steve Cishek AJ Ramos got the save for the Marlins in a 5-4 victory. Defensive play of the night...

Ufffffff! Hechavarria, even though the metrics still believe that he is atrocious, continues to make stellar plays on the field.

Day off Thursday, Bring on the reeling Braves over the weekend....

New closer, new beginnings....

The end of the line for Steve Cishek

I held myself.... Oh God did I hold myself back after Sunday's game in San Francisco. Our lovely "closer" blew another one in San Francisco by walking in the tying run and later getting the loss. I held myself back.

Let us move to Monday night....a game I did not expect them to win against the team with the best record in the NL who is 13-2 at home with a stud in Greinke on the mound. I would of been ok with a 2-1 loss in the ninth but Yelich hits the home run, they take the lead and hey we might win this game!

Then you remember that you are on the road and your "closer" has to come into the game... Twitter will help me the rest of the way

I said my prayers....I held my breathe and got on the ride hoping for a different result.

He gets an out.... you remember he did the same yesterday

Then the base on balls and you remember why you said the prayers.

Eithier gets a hit and your heart sinks because you know....Take him out you think...

Too late. Van Slyke home run ball game 5-3 loss.... THE FUCK!

Then twitter explodes...Lets analyze some of these because #Marlinsnation is never this upset!

Hard to argue with those points...

That is actually very true... I wish my job was simply to get three outs...

Ouch....

 Gosh don't remind me of those names.... nightmares! Also who can not forget the 6 finger fastball of Antonio Alfonseca in that bunch....

OMG that is Redmond! He supports bad closers then and NOW!

But ladies and gentlemen the good news is here as the writing is now on the wall...

The life of a closer is delicate...and a bad stretch could relegate you first out of the role of closer and next thing you know you are a middle reliever in Myrtle Beach pitching for the Mermen

But don't worry Val Reyes still has your back Cishek....

(Leave Britney alone)

Too bad she is the only person with your back

The end is here for Steve Cishek as our closer and it was fun while it lasted. Now he can join Heath Bell on the list of names that make us cringe

SO LONG CISHEK

Fan Graphs and last nights game.

The Marlins won last night in what I would call the way they don't teach you to win a game and the image above brought to you by fangraphs.com is a great tool to see where the odds of the Marlins winning were at during any point of the game. The lower the line the better the odds were for the Marlins to win....

I want to harp more on the later innings especially after the Bryan Morris collapse of Monday night.

Bottom of the 7th with the score 2-1
Lead off walk to Wilson Ramos. According to fan graphs, that run scores 38 percent of the time and that little spike in the middle of the 7th shows the odds going down (up).
After one out Latos walks Uggla and we are now back at bad odds but Nick Masset comes in to the game and finishes off the 7th with a nifty play by Flash Gordon.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/8878534/v102752483

Bottom of the 8th with the score 2-1
Lead off walk to Denard Span a speedster. Again another 38 percent chance of scoring on base for the Nationals. Again the Marlins find a way to get out of the inning. This Houdini act....

Bottom of the 9th and Cishek in with score 2-1
Almost a lead off walk but a bloop single (it happens) but then the error by Hechavarria and its 1st and 2nd with no outs. Fan Graphs shows that spike there and actually had the game as a coin flip at that point! Thank goodness Dan Uggla can't bunt (or hit) and provided a perfect bunt to get an out at 3. At least he can cook a steak though!

Steve Cishek then turns into the Cishek of old and strikes out the last two batters to win the game... How do you even pull that one out of your butt Marlins?? I do not know but I am not offended. Marlins win 2-1, Latos gets his first Marlins win with his tattoos and weird hair cut, but I just saw his wife.... I will no longer make fun of him... Dallas Latos. That is all I have to say... 

Dallas Latos...

Rubber match today at 1:05... day baseball!