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Looking At The Florida Marlins
In Major League Baseball, teams can qualify for playoff play even if they do not win their division. When a team does this, they are called a wildcard team. They have a disadvantage in that they are never given home field advantage during any of the playoff series. The Florida Marlins have been wildcards on two separate occasions and both times walked away with championships. This is not an easy thing to do and therefore the Marlins are a team worth talking about. Here we will talk about their history.
The Marlins entered the National League in 1993 as an expansion team. They play their games in Miami, Florida. From their inception they have played at Sun Life Stadium (formerly named Dolphin Stadium, one of many former names for the stadium.) Starting in 2012 the team is planning to play in a new park, the former site of the Orange Bowl.
From 1993 to 1996 things were bleak for the franchise. They finished their debut season in last place, losing 98 games. It is worth noting, though, that over the next few years, they got progressively better. They crept to 5th, then 4th, then 3rd. By 1996 they ended up only two games below . 500. This gave fans good reason to be hopeful about their team.
The fans did not have to wait long. 1997 turned out to be a magical season. The club finished second in the National League East behind the Atlanta Braves with a 90-72 record and qualified as a wildcard team. They swept the San Francisco Giants in three in the NLDS. They then went on to dispatch their divisional rivals the Braves 4-2 in the NLCS. The only team left to vanquish was the Cleveland Indians.
The Marlin team came into the series as the underdog. The Indians were coming off an impressive playoff win against the Yankees. Incredibly, after six games the Series was tied three games all. In the decisive seventh game, the Marlins completed their miracle season by edging out Cleveland 3-2 in eleven innings. That seventh game was high drama. It looked like it was going the Indians’ way, but the Marlins tied the game in the bottom of the ninth and won it in the eleventh.
Looking ahead to 2003, we see them again coming in second to Atlanta. Again they were the wildcard. And again, they defeated the Giants in the first round. This time, they would be facing the Chicago Cubs in round 2. It did not look good for Florida, as they were trailing in the eighth inning of the sixth, and possibly last, game of the series. In a mind blowing turn of events, a Cub fan interfered with a Cub player who was attempting to make a catch for the third out. This breathed new life into the Marlin team, who went on to win that game and the next.
Now, we said that Florida was an underdog in 1997. To say they were underdogs in 2003 would be an understatement. Up against the New York Yankees, nobody gave them the slightest chance of winning. The Yanks had just had an amazing and tiring series against the Boston Red Sox. Maybe that is what caused them to come out a bit flat. Whatever the reason, the Marlin pitching was right on target and the Fish took another championship.
More recently, they have been finishing in the middle of the division standings. The team payroll is among the league’s lowest which probably has quite a bit to do with it.
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