Offishial News: Luzardo, Chisholm lead Marlins to another one-run victory

[Ely Sussman]

Marlins news roundup for 5/23/24

On Wednesday, Jazz Chisholm Jr. got the scoring started with a leadoff home run...and there would be no more scoring after that. Jesús Luzardo (8.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K, 100 pitches/72 strikes) pitched incredibly well and he did it despite having the lowest average fastball velocity of his MLB career. The Marlins won, 1-0. They'e won seven of their last 10 games overall.

Down on the farm, Triple-A Jacksonville lost, 3-0. LHP Patrick Monteverde was placed on the 7-day injured list, the first IL stint of his MiLB career. Double-A Pensacola lost, 6-5. RHP Austin Roberts blew a save opportunity for the first time this season (he had previously been 8-for-8 in such situations). High-A Beloit lost, 14-13. The regression monster attacked LHP Emmett Olson, who allowed more runs in the opening inning than he had allowed in all of his previous starts combined (0.2 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 39 pitches/22 strikes). INF Josh Zamora (3-for-6, 2 HR, 5 RBI) continues to make a strong case to be promoted to Pensacola. Low-A Jupiter won, 5-1. Good work from RHP Tristan Stevens (6.1 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 78 pitches/51 strikes). FCL Marlins lost, 4-3.

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🔷 Chisholm's 60th career home run tied him with Derek Dietrich for 18th place on the all-time Marlins list. It also put to bed a well-circulated fun fact about the team's power drought in the post-Giancarlo Stanton era.

🔷 Marlins bench coach Luis Urueta was ejected during the first inning of the May 14 game against the Tigers. Jomboy did a hilarious lip-reading breakdown of Skip Schumaker's confrontation with the umpires.

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🔷 On this day in 2019, Garrett Cooper's ninth-inning grand slam capped a Marlins comeback in Detroit.

🔷 Elsewhere around baseball, Xander Bogaerts is facing a long-term absence after fracturing his left shoulder. Old friend Luis Arraez will be the primary second baseman for the Padres until he returns. Arraez went 4-for-5 on Wednesday and has a .391 batting average since going to San Diego. The Phillies improved to 36-14, the best 50-game start to a season in their franchise's history. The Rockies became the first team in MLB history to hit a multi-run homer in the first inning and a multi-run homer in the 12th inning or later and score no other runs in between.

🔷 Today's MiLB schedule: 

• Triple-A Jacksonville at Gwinnett, 7:05 p.m. ET
• Double-A Pensacola vs. Tennessee, 7:05 p.m. ET
• High-A Beloit at Great Lakes, 6:05 p.m. ET
• Low-A Jupiter vs. Tampa, 6:30 p.m. ET

 

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[THOMAS JOSEPH]

With the travel day, I was able to watch the Shrimp's offensive explosion in Gwinnett. Figure we will be seeing some of those guys in a few weeks. Good show last night, touching on the upcoming decisions Bendix must make. Of course, upcoming trades may clear the way for some guys and there are always injuries. I agree with Addio-Weiss regarding Anderson, but there are the prominent off-field issues - same for Garcia. Perhaps Anderson will parallel the upcoming summer temps and ramp it up. Such a pick-up eliminates the decision to eat the rest of his salary. I didn't care for the TA signing from the get-go, even scoffing that $5m was "a bargain." I do understand it, even though it was never going to be enough for fans expecting numerous FA signings, even if Anderson reverted to his better days. Garcia is a much bigger problem, especially since he is entirely baseball-superfluous compared to Myers and Edwards, not to mention several others that I and many Marlins fans would like to see given opportunities in the second half. Why not?