MIAMI, FL – The Miami Marlins (52-43) will face the New York Mets (50-44) at Marlins Park on Friday night.
Adam Conley is making his 20th start of the season for the Marlins on Friday night, his ninth at Marlins Park. He is 3-3, 3.28 (46.2/17) in eight starts in South Florida, and 3-2, 3.88 (58.0 ip/25 er) in 11 starts on the road.. He is making his second start of the year against the Mets, the fourth outing of his career. He set a career high with nine strikeouts through 6.0 scoreless innings on April 13, allowing one walk.
Conley is 1-0, 0.59 (15.1/1) vs. the Mets overall. He is 6-3, 3.23 (83.2/30) in 16 appearances (14 starts) against NL East oppo- nents, marking his most wins and lowest earned-run average vs. any division. He holds the lowest career ERA vs. the NL East by any Marlins left-handed starter (min. 10 starts). In his last four home starts, he is 2-0 with a 1.07 ERA (25.1/3); has earned in a win in his last two starts here.
The Mets will start RHP Logan Verrett, who is 3-6, 4.21 this season.
FISH BITES
The Marlins are opening a 10-game homestand with the first of three games against the New York Mets, who are only 1.5 games behind the Fish for second in the NL East, tonight at 7:10 p.m. Miami is starting LHP Adam Conley, who in three previous appearances (two starts) against the Metropolitans, has gone 1-0 with a 0.59 ERA. New York is countering with RHP Logan Verrett, who in three previous appearances (two starts) against the Marlins, has no record and a 0.69 ERA. The Marlins have gone 8-2 over their last 10 games and are looking to get to a season-best 10-games over .500. The last time the Fish were 10-games over .500 was on May 28, 2011 (30-20). Tonight is Puerto Rican Heritage Night at Marlins Park. Fans who purchased a special event ticket package will receive a commemorative Puerto Rican Heritage Night hat, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Dorothy Quintana Senior Arts Program in Wynwood. Tonight's na- tional anthem will be performed by Los 5, and ceremonial first pitches will be thrown by John Brunetti Sr. and Dr. Michael Baraga. Tonight’s game is the fifth contest of 10 straight against NL East opponents, with the homestand continuing against the Phillies (July 25-27), before playing four against the Cardinals (July 28-31). Miami is 5-2 thus far on a 20-game stretch without an off-day to begin the second half.
LAST NIGHT AT PHILADELPHIA
The Marlins capped a 5-2 road trip to open the second half with a 9-3 win over the Phillies. Tom Koehler tied a career high by tossing 8.0 innings, allowing two hits and one earned run (three total). Six Marlins recorded multi-hit efforts in the 16-hit attack, led by Derek Dietrich's 3x4 performance. Christian Yelich was 2x5 with his career-high tying ninth home run of the season, while Marcell Ozuna was 2x5 with a team-high two RBI. Ichiro Suzuki continued his chase to 3,000 with two hits, putting him four away from the historic mark.
ELIAS SAYS...
Christian Yelich had two hits, including a solo homer, as the Marlins closed out their road trip with a 9-3 win at Phila- delphia last night. Yelich has reached base safely (via hit, walk or hit by pitch) in 46 of the 47 road games he's started for Miami this season, and in each of his last 29 road starts. That's the longest such streak by a Marlins player within one season since Hanley Ramirez reached safely in 29 consecutive road starts in 2009.
ZEROING IN
Adam Conley comes into tonight's start tied with Tanner Roark, Drew Pomeranz and Jake Arrieta for the most scoreless 5.0+ inning starts this season with six. The lefty has tossed 13.0 consecutive scoreless frames against the Mets, going 7.0 innings on September 16, 2015 at Citi Field, and 6.0 on April 13, 2016 at Citi Field.
HOT TIMES AT MARLINS PARK
Since starting the season 1-7 at home, the Fish have gone 23-12 (.657) over their last 35 at Marlins Park. Miami's home winning percentage since April 21 ranks second among National League clubs, behind only San Francisco's .667 (26- 13). On the season, Miami has played the fewest home games in the NL (43), yet are tied with the Mets and Pirates for the league lead with 17 saves. The Marlins .236 average against ranks fourth behind Chicago (.205), Los Angeles (.220) and Washington (.222).
SWEET SWINGIN' LEFTY
Christian Yelich has been putting together his finest season since coming to the Majors, batting .318 with nine home runs, 52 RBI, a .395 on-base percentage and .486 slugging percentage. His average, OBP and SLG are all career-bests, while his RBI total is two off a career best done in 2014. He needs five doubles to have 30 in each of the last three seasons and become the sixth Marlins player in Franchise history to have three-or-more consecutive seasons of 30+ doubles. Dating back to June 27, 2015, Yelich owns the second-highest average among all Major League hitters at .336, behind only Jose Altuve (.344).
TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM (RECORD)
Last night, Derek Dietrich was hit by a pitch for the first time since July 2 at Atlanta, a span of 11 games without being plunked. It was the longest stretch by games he had gone without a hit-by-pitch this season. Last night's beaning was his 18th this season, marking the second-most in the Majors (Brandon Guyer-22), and the most in a single season in Mar- lins history. He has now been hit 48 times in his career, the second-most in Franchise history, behind Alex Gonzalez (51).
CATCH HIM IF YOU CAN
J.T. Realmuto recorded his 10th stolen base of the season Tuesday night. He currently leads the Marlins in that category and would be the first catcher to do so in a single season in Club history. The last catcher to lead his team in stolen bases in a season was Jason Kendall, who led Oakland with 11 steals in 2006. - STATS LLC
30-30 CLUB
A.J. Ramos, who picked up his 31st save Tuesday night, recorded his 30th save of the season on Monday to become just the fourth Marlins pitcher to have two 30-plus save seasons. Ramos set his career high with 32 saves last season. Steve Cishek (2013, 2014), Juan Carlos Oviedo (pitching as Leo Nuñez in 2010, 2011) and Robb Nen (1996, 1997) are the only other Marlins to have multiple seasons of 30+ saves. Additionally, Ramos earned a save in seven of 10 team games from July 5-19, marking the second time he accomplished the feat this season (also, April 24-May 5). Prior to this year, it had only happened twice in team history, done by Steve Cishek (July 20-29, 2014) and Antonio Alfonseca (June 30-July 13, 2000).
CLIMBING THE LADDER
Ichiro Suzuki now has a total of 2,996 hits over his MLB career. On June 15 at San Diego, Ichiro unofficially passed Pete Rose's Major League hit record of 4,256 when combining Ichiro’s 1,278 hits with the Orix Blue Wave of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. Suzuki is batting .343 (61x178) this season and is four hits away from becoming the 30th player in Major League history to record 3,000 hits and tying Roberto Clemente for 29th on MLB's all-time hit list (Elias). In research provided by Stats LLC, Ichiro Suzuki will become just the second player ever to reach 3,000 hits through his first 16 Major League seasons, following Pete Rose, who recorded 3,164.
BROADCAST NOTES
FOX Sports Florida has added next Wednesday's game, July 27, vs. the Philadelphia Phillies to the broadcast schedule. In addition, TBS has added the July 31 game vs. the St. Louis Cardinals to its broadcast schedule.
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