Marlins Fanbase (2) Outnumbers Marlins Clutch Hits (0) In Weekend Series
You know this picture is old. Like, at least four days old. How do you know? Because it depicts one of the Marlins successfully scoring after being in the position to do so. And that … well that just hasn’t happened in some time.
From the Elias Sports Bureau:
The Reds completed a three-game sweep of the Marlins (by scores of 7-2, 5-4 and 2-0) while keeping Florida hitless in 27 at-bats with runners in scoring position over the weekend. The Marlins were the first team to be swept in a series of at least three games while going 0-for-8 or worse with runners in scoring position in each game since the Expos dropped a three-game set at Wrigley Field, May 31-June 2, 1991.
For the sleepy among you, let’s nail down exactly what this means. It means that for three straight games – one full game of at-bats, by the way – the Florida Marlins failed to get a guy standing at either second or third base over to home. To put it yet another way for both the slow and the bored, the Reds, over the course of three days, threw a no-hitter while someone was standing at least on second.
That’s like … that’s like … that’s like putting an injured mouse in a boa constrictor cage and the boa, um, FAILING TO SCORE A SINGLE RUN IN 27 TRIES!
And Elias, they of the most barrel-scraping statistical abnormalities on Earth, had to go back almost two decades just to find a hitting famine even a third as sorry as the show Florida put on over the weekend.
At least now we know of one team the Reds don’t hate.
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