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The Marlins finished 79 – 83, second best season in team history up to that time, but their fifth straight losing season since winning the World Series.
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The Marlins finished last ( 51 – 64 ) in their division in the strike shortened season of and fourth ( 67-76 ) in.
After a slow start, the Marlins finished the year with an 80 – 82 win-loss record to place third in their division.
In 1997, the Marlins finished nine games back of the Division Champion Atlanta Braves, but earned the wild card berth.
The Marlins finished the 1999 season with the worst record in baseball at 64 – 98, and traded World Series MVP Liván Hernández to the San Francisco Giants.
These acquisitions helped to keep the team in contention, and although they finished ten games behind the Braves, the Marlins captured the NL wild card.
Sosa finished the season with 40 home runs, and he hit two more in the 2003 NLCS against the Florida Marlins, but overall, the Cubs lost the series in seven games.
He finished the 1993 season hitting 10 home runs, batting. 292 and knocking in 37 runs while with the Marlins, and was the starting third baseman in the All-Star Game.
While only inserted permanently into the starting lineup in mid-May, Podsednik still finished second to the Florida Marlins ' Dontrelle Willis in the official Rookie of the Year balloting.
The Marlins finished second to the Atlanta Braves in the National League East by nine games, however, their 92-70 record was enough to secure the National League's wild card play-off spot.
Paul Lo Duca finished out the Marlins ' catching duties for 2004.
He was part of the Marlins ' opening day roster in 1997, and finished with a 4-6 record in 22 starts, with his first three wins coming against the Atlanta Braves.
After being released early in 2002 by the Blue Jays, he was signed by the Florida Marlins, where he finished the season.
Although he was named on more ballots ( 29 – 27 ), Zimmerman finished second in the 2006 NL Rookie of the Year voting to Florida Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez in the closest Rookie Of the Year vote ever.
In 1995, he was traded to the Florida Marlins for Mike Myers, where he finished the year.
He finished 2004 with three starts at the end of the 2004 campaign with one of the Marlins ' Single-A affiliates, the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic League.
After a second stint with the Marlins, he returned to Albuquerque for the rest of the Isotopes ' season, where he finished the year there with a. 318 batting average, 11 home runs, and 59 RBI in 77 games.
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The Marlins went on that season to finish 79 – 82 and third place in the NL East.
The Marlins closed the season by sweeping the Braves, and their final record for the season stood at 83 – 79.
Polidor played in a career-high 79 games in 1989 and was later a member of the Marlins in their 1993 inaugural season.
In 2002 he made 18 starts for the Marlins and was 5-8 with a 4. 79 ERA.
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With the series tied after game six, the Indians went into the ninth inning of Game 7 with a 2 – 1 lead, but closer Jose Mesa allowed the Marlins to tie the game.
On July 4, 2008, Colorado defeated the Florida Marlins, 18 – 17, after at one point being down, 13 – 4.
The Marlins defeated the Houston Astros 12 – 8 in their inaugural Spring Training game.
The Marlins swept the San Francisco Giants 3 – 0 in the National League Division Series, and then went on to beat the Atlanta Braves 4 – 2 in the National League Championship Series, overcoming the loss of Alex Fernandez to a torn rotator cuff, and Kevin Brown to a virus.
The Marlins ' slumped to 54 – 108, the worst record in the major leagues that year, and the most losses in franchise history.
The Marlins struggled in the opening stages of the season, going 16 – 22.
On May 22, the Marlins hit bottom with a major league worst record of 19 – 29, having lost 6 straight games.
On May 9, the Marlins called up high-kicking southpaw Dontrelle Willis from the Double-A Carolina Mudcats and helped carry the injury-plagued Marlins with an 11 – 2 record in his first 17 starts.
The Marlins would be a sub. 500 team for two seasons ( 2006, 2007 ) following the Market Correction, and in a span of three seasons ( 2005 – 2007 ), the team had three different managers ( Jack McKeon, Joe Girardi ( fired after spat with owner Jeffrey Loria ), and Fredi Gonzalez.
* Josh Beckett ( 2001 – 2005 ) — Beckett was drafted by the Marlins in the first round ( 2nd overall ) of the 1999 Amateur Draft.
* Miguel Cabrera ( 2003 – 2007 ) — Cabrera debuted with the Marlins in 2003 and hit a game-winning home run in his first game against the Tampa Bay Rays.
* Luis Castillo ( 1996 – 2005 ) — Castillo won three Gold Glove Awards and went to three All-Star games in his tenure with the Marlins.
* Jeff Conine ( 1993 – 1997, 2003 – 2005 ) — Jeff Conine has the distinction of being the only player to appear in the opener of the Marlins ' inaugural season and in both the 1997 World Series and the 2003 World Series won by the Marlins.
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Highly respected throughout the game, he was a coach for the Seattle Mariners ( 1977 – 80 ; 1982 – 83 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1981 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1985 – 91 ), and Florida Marlins ( 1993 – 94 ) after his playing days ended.
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In the top of the 10th inning, with a runner on second base, Baltimore pitcher Todd Williams was signaled to intentionally walk the Marlins ' Miguel Cabrera.
The Marlins ' franchise got its second no-hitter from ace Kevin Brown on June 10, 1997.
The Marlins had the second overall pick in the 1999 draft and drafted Josh Beckett from the state of Texas.
The incident with Steve Bartman and a come-from-behind win in Wrigley Field in Game 7 helped the Marlins capture their second NL pennant, keeping the " Curse of the Billy Goat " alive and well.
The offseason after their second World Series title, the Marlins made a questionable cost-cutting move as Derrek Lee was traded to Chicago Cubs for Hee Seop Choi and pitcher Mike Nannini.
The Marlins also lost key parts of their second championship team, Ugueth Urbina and Iván Rodríguez left via free agency ( signed by the Detroit Tigers ).
With the addition of Delgado, many sportswriters expected the Marlins to finish the season in either first or second place in the NL East.
After the 2010 season, the Marlins continued their string of dealing players when their contracts became too much to bear, dealing power-hitting second basemen Dan Uggla to the Atlanta Braves after his insistence on an extra year in his possible contract extension went nowhere with the front office.
The Marlins received second baseman Omar Infante and southpaw reliever Mike Dunn from the deal.
In early February, Showtime selected the Marlins for the second season of The Franchise, a reality TV show which centers on the lives of the players on and off the field.
Willis holds many Marlins pitching records including single season victories ( 22 ), franchise losses ( 54 ), complete games ( 15 ), shutouts ( 8 ), innings pitched ( 1, 022 ⅔ ), and is second in franchise victories ( 67 ).
On May 9, he got his second win of the season against the Florida Marlins, giving him 330 for his career.
The Marlins, in only their fifth year of existence, became the second fastest expansion franchise to win a World Series ( the Boston Americans, now known as the Red Sox, were a charter team in the expansion American League in 1901 and won the first World Series in 1903 ).
In the eighth inning of Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, with Chicago ahead 3 – 0 and holding a 3 games to 2 lead in the best of 7 series, several spectators attempted to catch a foul ball off the bat of Marlins ' second baseman Luis Castillo.
The renovation has three phases, the first has been completed ; the second and third phases of renovation will take place after the Marlins move from the stadium.
In Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins that year, Alou was involved in the Steve Bartman incident, in which a Cubs fan named Steve Bartman deflected a foul ball landing one row into the stands, preventing Alou, who reached into the stands, from attempting to catch the ball for an out that could have been the second out of the 8th Inning.
He was traded to the Florida Marlins in June for Wilson Valdez, a minor-league second baseman who it was assumed would replace Luis Castillo before the latter signed a four-year contract to remain with Florida.
In the play in which Biggio was injured, the Florida Marlins ' Preston Wilson ( who would later become Biggio's teammate ) slid into second base, trying to stop a double play, and hit Biggio's planted left leg, tearing the ACL and MCL in Biggio's knee.
In his first season with the Marlins, Brown posted a 17 – 11 record with 159 strikeouts and an MLB best 1. 89 ERA, finishing second in the Cy Young Award voting.
After the 2010 season, Infante and reliever Michael Dunn were traded to the Florida Marlins for second baseman Dan Uggla.
In the ninth inning, when a wild pitch moved base runners onto second and third with no outs, and the Giants with a 2 – 1 lead, Schmidt proceeded to strike out the heart of the Marlins ' lineup in order ; cleanup hitter Miguel Cabrera, Josh Willingham, and then Jeremy Hermida.
With the Marlins trailing 2 – 0, Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca hit a hard grounder that glanced off Cabrera's glove and rolled into left field, allowing a run to score as Lo Duca raced to second with a double.
He also passed former Marlins Gary Sheffield and Derrek Lee for second on the franchise home run list.
The Minnesota Twins had the first pick that year, the Florida Marlins had the second.
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