Hopefully, you had better things to do on your Memorial Day than tune in for last night’s contest. By all appearances, it certainly looked like the Miami Marlins did.
The Marlins were blown out of the water by the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates, losing 10-0 Monday night at Marlins Park. Originally scheduled to have been played in Puerto Rico before both clubs pulled out due to health concerns, the home team could never get going in this one offensively. This was a game where you have no choice but to look at things like “solid contact”, “hard hit balls”, and all the rest- all on account of unlikely buzzsaw Jeff Locke, who picked a very inconvenient time to have the best game of his career.