Fish win again! Plz discuss. Tx.

Good win!

too ez. getting sick of winning really

Coming for dat ass, Braves and Nationals

Pen: 1 ER in 20 IP.

Remember the first few innings of opening day, when we didn't have a hit, and we thought "same old Marlins"?

Yelich is coming.

Fernandez with another masterful start while Giancarlo keeps driving in runs! Awesome, now lock em up!

35,000

Jose at home is 11-0 with 1.14 ERA. C'mon.

Honestly, Rox and Padres were not our suitable opponents.

 

Nats and Braves are real fighter. I still keep my real happy face.

Looks like I missed a great game.

 

Winning is fun.

Haven't said this in awhile (or ever) but...I like our bullpen. A.J. Ramos is worth his weight in gold. Just nasty.

 

Nice to see Yelich start to get it going, too.

 

And that Jose guy is good I guess.

Remember the first few innings of opening day, when we didn't have a hit, and we thought "same old Marlins"?

Yep, all two innings where we didn't have a hit before Ozuna's homer.

35,000

wow if so that's awesome. Sat night Jose pitching should do it.

wow if so that's awesome. Sat night Jose pitching should do it.

Yep, check out the box score. Says 94% full.

 

Jose is friekin great. Wow.

Are you guys starting to feel the positivity I've been preaching since day 1 of camp?

Great to see the crowd, great to keep this going.

 

As others have mentioned, I can't wait to see them do this against the nationals or Braves. That will be when we have really proved ourselves. But you have to win these games to succeed…

edit.

We have the best offense ever and the best bullpen ever.

 

Also, Jose is the best pitcher ever.

 

Unlike the first sentence, the second sentence might not be sarcasm...

I was at the game, and it really didn't look like he had his best stuff.

 

And he was still pretty dominant.

I was at the game, and it really didn't look like he had his best stuff.

 

And he was still pretty dominant.

He didn't, that's why he's an ace.

They remain a pleasure to watch.

 

The big guys are doing what they're supposed to do. Dietrich is hitting well. Yelich is getting going. Hech is showing signs that he understands what he's doing at the plate. McGehee is a new big guy. Salty is doing damage. Ozuna woke up. Jones and Baker are at least passable. The starters are carrying on their high level of performance from last year and the BP is almost bullet-proof. They're playing decent defense. What more could one ask?

 

Next, comes the test against the NL East. On the road.

 

No matter what happens in the short-term, I think they're gonna be a lot of fun to watch all year. It's a totally different team.

http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=sweetspot&id=45665

 

They say one badge of a true ace is finding a way to succeed when you don’t bring your premium stuff or pinpoint location to the mound.

 

In the case of Jose Fernandez, the stuff is always premium, with a fastball that touches the upper 90s when he pumps it up, a slider that makes right-handed batters weep in torment and a sharp curveball that he’s not afraid to throw on any count. He’ll even drop in an occasional changeup, just to turn batters' brains to mush worrying about a fourth pitch.

 

The Padres’ approach in Fernandez’s second start of 2014 appeared to be: Wait him out, hope he’s a bit wild, maybe draw some walks and get a couple of timely hits to push across some runs or at least run up his pitch count and get to the Marlins’ bullpen early. Of the first 11 batters, only Jedd Gyorko and pitcher Andrew Cashner swung at the first pitch. The patient approach sort of worked, as Fernandez didn’t have the command he had an Opening Day, when 73 of his 94 pitches were strikes. Through the first three innings Saturday, Fernandez had thrown 56 pitches and walked two batters in the third inning that loaded the bases with one out. It looked like a short night was in order.

 

But his pitch to Seth Smith shows why Fernandez is a pitcher who relies on more than just stuff. The 21-year-old knows how to pitch. He usually throws a four-seam fastball, but against Smith he threw a first-pitch, 89 mph sinker that Smith pounded into the ground for a 4-6-3 double play.

 

That was pretty much it for the Padres. Fernandez regrouped, found his command and threw seven pitches in the fourth, 10 in the fifth and 14 in the sixth, allowing him to pitch into the seventh inning. He left with two outs in the seventh, after striking out Alexi Amarista (who reached when the curveball got away from catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia). Fernandez’s final line in the Marlins’ 4-0 victory looked like another dominating gem: 6.2 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 8 SO. But this is one of those games in which an ace overcame a shaky beginning.

 

Through two starts now, Fernandez has allowed one run and eight hits in 12.2 innings with 17 strikeouts. Going back to last season, he’s allowed more two runs just twice in 20 starts, and those two times he allowed three runs.

 

Fernandez, who weighed as much as 260 pounds in high school (perhaps a reason he fell to the 14th pick in 2011), spent the offseason biking as much as 600 miles per week on his $9,000 Specialized S-Works Venge bike. Listed at 240 pounds as a rookie, Fernandez is now a svelte but still powerful 220 pounds. He’s poised, confident, in terrific shape and developing the mind of an ace to go with his all-world right arm. Two starts in and he looks like a guy who will be the best pitcher in baseball in 2014.

Jose is legit as fuck