Game Wrap: Marlins 5, Rockies 3  You better believe this image
can double as a metaphor - Dustin Bradford  Shoddy relief work
and a continued offensive malaise spoil a fine start by Juan
Nicasio.  It's hard to imagine things getting worse than this.
The Miami Marlins, one of the worst teams in Major League
Baseball, have just taken three of four games from an utterly
lifeless Colorado team. In a game that had both water and boos
rain down upon Coors Field, Juan Nicasio's fantastic start was
thrown away like an empty candy wrapper.  All eight runs in the
game were scored in a span of about 20 minutes. Adam Ottavino
started the eighth with two quick strikeouts, but two seeing-eye
singles later and there were runners on the corners. As Wilin
Rosario lazily stabbed at a slider in the dirt, which let the
ball squirt away, the energy in the stadium almost tangibly
deflated. A 1-0 deficit? Might as well leave early and avoid the
traffic. That would have been a mistake, were it not for...
Wilton Lopez followed Otta