This is an article from the “Random Plate Appearance” series. I used random.org to give me a Miami or Florida Marlins year between 1993 and 2018, and a game number, usually from one through 162 (in 1997, it was one through 178) then I find the most impactful at bat of that game and break it down.
This series isn’t so much about a specific plate appearance as is is about painting a picture of what it felt to be a Florida Marlins fan in 1997. Before there were blogs and Twitter and all sorts of instantaneous methods to stay in-the-know from moment-to-moment.