MIAMI (AP) -- Their T-shirts say Bottom Feeders, even though the Miami Marlins are showing they're a different kind of fish in 2020 - the sort that rises to make a splash.
Surprising Miami has advanced to MLB's final eight, disproving disparaging adjectives so often applied to the long-suffering franchise by detractors. That includes Ricky Bottalico, the former All-Star reliever and current Philadelphia Phillies' broadcaster who described the Marlins early in the season as ''bottom feeders.''
''Everybody thought that about Marlins -- they were a team you should beat up on,'' Bottalico said in a phone interview Saturday.